Program attracts hundreds each year because it 'bespeaks the nature of the Pittsburgh Jewish community and its cooperative ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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My Jewish grandson, Rowen, is having a great time at Camp Shalom. Started 20 years ago by a group of concerned people who wanted to offer a camp for Jewish children and their friends, the camp is ...

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 ...

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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 ...