Shavuot

Jewish families around the world, including babes in arms, will be gathering in synagogues this Friday, May 26, to hear the reading of the Ten Commandments on the holiday of Shavuot. For many, it’s the children who are encouraging their parents to join th...

For the 3,335th time, Jewish men, women and children around the world gathered on the holiday of Shavuot on Sunday to hear the Ten Commandments being read from a Torah scroll, have a festive meal—often a dairy spread—with many synagogues having an ice-cre...

Another Jewish holiday is fast approaching—Shavuot, when the Jewish people received the Torah on Mount Sinai 3,333 years ago. And like everything else over this unique period of world history, Jewish communities worldwide are gearing up to mark the two-da...

In a normal year, Chabad-Lubavitch of Eilat, Israel, on the shores of the Red Sea, would host hundreds of children in their synagogue for the reading of the Ten Commandments, in keeping with the call of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous...

Even as the world takes baby steps towards reopening the economy and returning to a semblance of business as usual, it’s clear that many will remain shut in for some time and that many communal institutions, including some synagogues, will remain closed f...

Everything is set for the first Shavuot celebration at the lone Chabad center in rural Wasilla, Alaska. The cheese and the ice-cream have been sent by plane from Seattle, and the other dairy goodies (crepes, pasta and cheesecakes) have been made from scra...

All around the world this week, Jewish communities will celebrate Shavuot, when G‑d gave the Torah to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai 3,300 years ago. They’ll do so by lighting candles, staying up all night to learn Torah, hearing the reading of the Ten ...

The first night of the festival of Shavuot is not one for sleeping in Jewish communities around the world. It is the night when Tikkun Leil Shavuot (rectification of the night of Shavuot)—a specific text comprising written, oral and mystical aspects of th...

Synagogue seating typically includes pews, stacking chairs or even folding chairs. But come Sunday morning, part of the sanctuary of the Chabad of Cary Learning Center in North Carolina will be strewn will pillows and blankets, creating a comfy “kids’ zon...

Shavuot marks the “giving of the Torah” at Sinai more than 3,300 years ago. That will have even greater meaning this year for 12 communities in four different countries that will be given their very own Torah scrolls for use by the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Be...