The cheesecake is not incidental. The blintzes are not nostalgia. The tradition of dairy on Shavuot is, if we are willing to ...

This minhag addresses the biggest psychological hurdle we face in our personal avodah (service of God) and spiritual growth: ...

The Torah is described as the Tree of Life, and there is a legend that Mount Sinai once was a “green mountain” covered with ...

The Shavuot festival memorialises the giving of the law to the Jewish people – and is intimately bound to dietary practices.

Shavuot is just around the corner, with major brands launching new dairy-based products for home cooking, hosting, and ...

Shavuot is a time to let loose with the wholesome richness of milk, to savor foods oozing with butter, yogurt and sour cream, to serve whipped cream with abandon. It’s a time to smile and say cheese.

Hanukkah, Passover, Rosh Hashanah... most non-Jewish people have at least a vague idea of what those Jewish holidays commemorate, celebrate or honor. But how about Shavuot, the "Feast of Weeks?" ...

Reporting from Tel Aviv — Last weekend, we left the city behind and drove about an hour south to my mother-in-law’s kibbutz to see the rolling fields of ripening wheat ready to be harvested just ...

By the time you read this, Shavuot may have passed, and I will hopefully still be asleep recovering from it. Shavuot may ...

Hanukkah, Passover, Rosh Hashanah ... most non-Jewish people have at least a vague idea of what those commemorate, celebrate or honor. But how about Shavuot, the "Feast of Weeks?" Shavuot, which means ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shavuot, which means "weeks" in Hebrew, is probably the most important Jewish holiday non-Jews have never heard of, commemorating ...