Jewish Holidays


Shavuot 2025: Diving into the Book of Ruth, a reminder tradition can grow

 ‘BOAZ AND RUTH’ by Rembrandt, circa 1637-40. Through acts of kindness, dedication, and determination, Ruth becomes the worthy great-grandmother of King David.

Shavuot 2025: Why do we group Jewish holidays together?

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG attends a ‘Book of Esther’ reading wearing a protective mask, at the Ahavat Tzion synagogue in Beit Shemesh in 2022. ‘God is hiding His face, and we are experiencing a world in which it seems that God is absent,’ says the writer.

Shavuot in 1948: Harvesting the first fruits of Israeli statehood under siege

 SHAVUOT, ONE of the three pilgrimage festivals, marked the wheat harvest in biblical Israel. It concludes the seven-week period beginning at Passover