Rabbi Daniel Bouskila is the international director of the Sephardic Educational Center.

Shavuot (pronounced Shah-voo-OTE), Hebrew for “weeks,” has been observed since biblical times. It marks the passing of seven ...

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

It was the collision of Israel’s past with its present and future. The offerings may have been meager. The dairy dishes ...

Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster unpacks the Jewish perspective of Shavuot - the festival known to ...

Even after the holiday officially ended, celebrations continued at the Western Wall. Pilgrims lingered at the site, singing ...

Sunday afternoon's attack in Boulder, Colorado, took place hours before the start of a major Jewish festival, Shavuot. Authorities say a man used a flamethrower and threw an incendiary device into ...