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 ...

By designing a program predicated on bringing together younger Pittsburghers from various walks of Jewish life, Tikun Jr.

(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 ...

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 ...

Congregation Shaarei Kodesh in Boca Raton hosts a night of honest conversation and Torah learning to celebrate Shavuot.

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 ...

Jews mark the holiday with dairy-laden treats, crafts workshops, late-night or even all-night study sessions and sunrise ...

After seven weeks of reflection during the Counting of the Omer, Shavuot represents the Jewish people receiving the Ten ...

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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