Shavuot

Shavuot: A feast for body and soul

2011-06-02 00:00:00

Last weekend, we left the city behind and drove about an hour south to my mother-in-law's kibbutz to see the rolling fields of ripening wheat ready to be harvested just before the Shavuot holiday, exactly like it was in ancient times. Shavuot, starting...

For the record: June 3 (Food)

2009-06-03 00:00:00

Harvest festival: In a Food section story May 27, it was reported that the Jewish holiday Shavuot ended at sundown Friday. That is the practice in Israel. For most Jews in the United States, it ended at sundown on Saturday....

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Fresh homemade cheeses for Shavuot

2009-05-27 00:00:00

Sometimes when I'm in the kitchen making fresh cheese, I imagine what it must have been like for the primitive nomads who first discovered that the fresh, sweet liquid they had so laboriously milked from their precious flocks quickly soured in the...

So what was the big deal?

2013-05-21 10:39:23

I'm a little confused. What was all that hoopla about Shavuot? What's such a big deal about this holiday that didn't even warrant an entire chapter in my 1973 Jewish Holiday book? Yet when I went to the gym on Wednesday afternoon and saw more crowds...

Kosher meals fight continues

2013-05-21 10:38:54

Florida's Department of Corrections got a stern rebuke from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals last week when the court sent a lawsuit brought by a Jewish prisoner over the right to receive kosher meals back to a lower court. The appeals court...

God's special love for the convert

2013-05-14 12:31:58

If a thief robs by violence, swears falsely and then confesses his guilt, the Torah tells us that he is liable to return the value of the object plus an additional one-fifth to the plaintiff. (Numbers 5:6, 7) If, however, the plaintiff dies leaving no...

Religion calendar

2013-05-10 11:04:02

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Yale's Jewish center threatened with arson

2013-05-08 04:14:02

Area synagogues and Jewish community agencies are on security alert after graffiti in a Yale University chemistry building threatened arson at Yale's Slifka Center for Jewish Life later this month. The graffiti was discovered April 22 in a bathroom at...

Connection between divine and human love

2013-05-07 13:23:54

Shavuot is a celebration of that moment when we, the Jewish people, were wed to God. Note the parallel between that moment and the wedding of bride and groom. At Sinai, God and the people of Israel stood at the base of the mountain, "be-tahtit ha-har."...

Our Torah, our purpose

2013-05-07 13:24:21

Next week on the 15th and 16th we celebrate Shavuot, the holiday the rabbis called Zeman Matan Toratanu. Shavuot celebrates the giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai but the rabbinic phrase actually means "the time of the giving of our Torah. There is much...

Principal expands role

2013-05-02 10:19:26

Orly K. Jacobs, religious school director at Temple Beth Tikvah in Greenacres has recently expanded her role to include director of the temple's youth and family programming. Jacobs, who joined the Temple Beth Tikvah staff in 2010, and who has brought an...

Samaritans pray on Mt. Gerizim near the northern West Bank city of Nablus during celebrations of the Shavuot festival.

2010-05-05 00:00:00

In the West Bank city of Nablus, an ultra-Orthodox Jew prays on Mt. Gerizim overlooking Joseph's Tomb, one of Judaism's holiest sites. He and others received a special permit from the Israeli army to celebrate in the restricted area.

2009-05-28 00:00:00

An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man harvests wheat ahead of the Jewish Shavuot holiday, in a field outside the Israeli community of Mevo Horon. The Jewish holiday of Shavuot, a commemoration of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments and also a harvest holiday, begins on Thursday at sundown.

2009-05-25 00:00:00