For artists who take on the challenge of depicting scenes from the Torah – particularly Moses and the giving of the Ten ...

The Torah does not begin with the story of Moshe Rabbeinu; it begins instead with Bereishit – with creation.

The Talmud and our sages teach that Hashem intentionally chose Har Sinai because its name hints at a deep truth: from the ...

Tradition says it was the moment Jews became a chosen “holy nation,” not just by ancestry, belief or geography, but by covenant. Many faiths, including Christians, Muslims and Hindus, claim a sacred ...

The uncompromising claim by Orthodox Judaism that the Torah is not a book written by human beings but is the result of a ...

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

Another fundamental question that has long been discussed regarding this foundational event of our tradition is: who received ...

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

Tonight is Erev Shavuot. The holiday celebrates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai as well as the grain harvest for the ...

(RNS) — Vanessa Bloom recalls her rabbi gently reminding her that she still had time to walk away. But she felt compelled toward the Jewish faith. “I knew my fate was already tied to the Jewish people ...

“Remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive’” (Acts 20:35). All that ...

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 ...