When you think of Jewish holidays, a few may come to mind. Hanukkah, Passover, Yom Kippur maybe. But have you ever heard of Shavuot?

In honor of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which celebrates when God gave Moses the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a volunteer organization founded by ...

Shavuot: A 'gouda' history of cheese names and terms Let’s open the playing field and take a look at some of the delicacies that have graced cheese platters and delectable dishes over the centuries.

Shavuot is one of the three holidays together with Passover and Succot in which Jews made a pilgrimage to the Temple when it existed.

According to tradition, Shavuot—the two-day holiday that begins on the eve of the evening of May 25, the sixth day of the Jewish month of Sivan—marks the Israelites’ receiving of the Ten ...

After the Romans destroyed the temple in 70 C.E., Jewish leaders redesignated Shavuot as a holiday that would primarily commemorate the revelation of the Torah.

But Shavuot gradually evolved, as did other Jewish practices, after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in AD 70. This dramatic event meant an end to animal sacrifices and agricultural offerings.

Finally, Shavuot always falls in early summer, a time when people again take to the streets, where communal strife that simmered during the rainy winter months begins to emerge.

Shavuot, a Jewish holiday celebrated 50 days after the second day of Passover, begins on the evening of June 4 and ends on the evening of June 6. It marks the liberation of Jewish people from ...

Shavuot, starting this year at sundown Tuesday, is a festival with three names: Shavuot, which means “the feast of weeks”; Hag HaKatzir, or “harvest holiday”; and Hag HaBikkurim, meaning ...

June 3 to June 5, Shavuot, which honors the day the Jews received the Torah, has at least seven reasons for being the day of dairy, according to Rabbi Shraga Simmons on the website Aish.com.