Learning to seek the fire: we find many parallels between the story of the burning bush, the Sneh, and Matan Torah at Mount ...

Spallina had three goals and three assists in Syracuse's win over North Carolina in Division I quarterfinals on Saturday at ...

As Jews around the world celebrate Shavuot and commemorate the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai more than 3,300 years ago, ...

Carrying yesterday’s forms unchanged into altered reality can itself become a kind of falsehood.

The Jewish holiday of Shavuot commemorates the giving of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai — a revelation that occurs in the wilderness where Moses first encountered the divine at the burning bush.

They did not preserve Sinai mainly as a story about a prophet on a summit. They preserved it as the moment a people ...

Standing at Sinai is not an event that happened and ended. It is ground that continues - that is transmitted from vessel to ...

Diogenes Laertius loved telling fancy anecdotes concerning diets of great Greek philosophers. Green figs were Zeno's favorite ...

Why didn't the Torah provide any rituals for Shavuot? And why was it so important for Jews to create their own customs?

On Thursday evening, Jews will celebrate the holiday of Shavuot. This holiday, which occurs seven weeks and one day after Passover (hence the name Shavuot, which literally means “weeks”), commemorates ...

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Elvin Suarez, 61, was three blocks from his home when he drove his Mercedes-Benz into a parked car on Amsterdam Ave. near W.