Shavuot

Editor's Column

Your guide to Shavuot, now with 50 percent less facts

The holiday's relative obscurity offers a unique branding opportunity.

By Andrew Silow-Carroll May 18, 2018 2:29 pm

Ideas

On Shavuot, remember that Ruth was a poor immigrant

Torah demands that society care for the most vulnerable, writes a member of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights.

May 14, 2018 12:50 pm

Dazzling Animated Art For the Holiday of Shavuot

This evening, May 30th, is the end of the Omer, the 50 days Jews tick off from Passover, which marks the Israelites’s exodus from Egypt, to Shavuot, when they received the Torah. Back in the day, the counting was done with measures of barley (“omer” means “sheaf of barley”) Today, we count each day with a blessing. It’s […]

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