(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 ...

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 ...

An organization working to bridge the gap between the religious and secular in Israel hosted some 8,500 people at Shavuot learning-together sessions across Israel. The special lectures and all-night ...

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 ...

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 ...

With a goal of making Torah study on Shavuot accessible and relevant to Israelis of all backgrounds and levels of observance, Tzohar will once again be presenting hundreds of learning programs for 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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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 ...