(New York Jewish Week) — This weekend is Shavuot, the major Jewish holiday that occurs seven weeks after the second Passover seder and marks the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Though Shavuot is ...

Learning Torah Together on Shavuot, hundreds of learning sessions organized by the Tzohar Rabbinical Organization, will take place in dozens of locations throughout Israel, as well as in India, Sweden ...

Four New York spots for all-night Shavuot learning in the city that never sleeps Originating with 16th-century Jewish mystics, the custom of Tikkun Leil Shavuot is now as much a part of the holiday as ...

One would have thought that Jewish women would be logically urged to participate in the Tikkun Leil Shavuot (the reparation of the night of Shavuot) because they were also at the foot of Mount Sinai ...

The holiday of Shavuot is on the way, bringing with it the customary consumption of cheesecake and donning of white clothing, along with all-night-long Torah study. This year, the arrival of the ...

So goes the origin story of the great Rabbi Akiva, recounted in the “Avot D’Rabbi Natan,” a collection of Jewish aggadot, or legends, from the latter half of the first millennium. One day, according ...

Shavuot may not be the most prominent Jewish festival, but it captures something essential: the belief that education is sacred, and that Judaism survives because each generation continues to engage ...

IKAR, a politically liberal Jewish community with a focus on social justice, went progressive in another sense during a June 11 Shavuot Torah study program. That’s when about 130 participants started ...

(RNS) — One of the misunderstandings of modern society is the idea that people of different faiths must eventually dilute ...

An annual Shavuot learning program established by an Israeli rabbinic group has gone global. Learning Torah Together on Shavuot, hundreds of learning sessions organized by the Tzohar Rabbinical ...