At a unique crossroads between religion and cuisine, the holiday of Shavuot, celebrating the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai some 3,337 years ago, has become a celebration of fine dairy cuisine as ...

Shavuot (pronounced Shah-voo-OTE), Hebrew for “weeks,” has been observed since biblical times. It marks the passing of seven weeks (49 days) from the holiday of Passover, with Shavuot falling on the ...

Russia’s education ministry has agreed to provide Jewish students an alternative date for a matriculation exam which took place on the Shavuot holiday. The concession was announced last week in a ...

When Jews disagree, it’s a family quarrel. That’s the premise underlying this story of two cousins at odds, drawn from Zina Rabinowitz’s 1958 story collection Der liber yontef (Our Precious Holidays).

On the evening of June 12, 1948, white tablecloths were laid out on folding tables in a state barely one month old. Dairy dishes were served without cheese, baskets of fruit were carried by barefoot ...

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. Religions reporter Rossella Tercatin joins host ...

Passover has been over for several weeks (it started April 22), but on April 23, as part of the second Seder, we started “Counting the Omer.” Omer means “sheaf” of barley. We count the Omer each day ...

This is a programming note that I will be completely offline for the holiday of Shavout/Shavous on Monday and Tuesday, June 2nd and 3rd. Any stories published here will be scheduled, written ...

Sunday afternoon's attack in Boulder, Colorado, took place hours before the start of a major Jewish festival, Shavuot. Authorities say a man threw two incendiary devices into a group holding one of ...