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Chosen for what? A post-Shavuot reflection
In gratitude for liberating us from Egypt, we agreed to be God’s eternal covenant partners.
Rabbi Cary Kozberg
June 5, 2025
Jews at the Western Wall in Jerusalem during the Priestly Blessing for Passover, April 18, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Western Wall draws 100,000 people as Shavuot ends
Some 20,000 worshipers are estimated to have attended sunrise prayers after a night of learning Torah on Monday morning.
JNS Staff
June 3, 2025
Staff prepare Shavuot packages for Ukrainian Jews in May 2025. Photo credit: FJCU.
Ukrainian Jewish group distributes 39,500 Shavuot holiday sets
The delivery effort was completed amid ongoing war with Russia, which has triggered the departure of tens of thousands of Jews from both countries.
Canaan Lidor
June 2, 2025
Sunset at Sinai. Credit: laidianaguevara/Pixabay.
Revelations great and small: Bringing Shavuot home
Compelling evidence that, like at Sinai, a single moment of Godly revelation begets another and another and another.
Deborah Fineblum
May 30, 2025
A pigeon perches on stone tablets bearing the Ten Commandments in Hebrew on top of the Magen Abraham Synagogue in downtown Beirut on Oct. 19, 2010. A few hundred Jews live in Lebanon, compared to 24,000 in 1948. Photo credit should read JOSEPH EID/AFP via Getty Images.
Hiding in plain sight
On Shavuot, we recall specifically the revelation at Sinai—the moment when heaven and Earth touched. And we are reminded explicitly of the mission to be a “light unto the nations.”
Rabbi Ira Flax
May 30, 2025
Celebrating the Shavuot harvest festival at Kibbutz Nirim in 2023, four months before the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.
Shavuot 2025: Everything you need to know
This year, Shavuot begins on the evening of June 1. Here's everything you need to know about one of the major festivals on the Jewish calendar.
May 30, 2025
The oldest-known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments, dating from 300 to 800 C.E., is displayed at Sotheby's auction house on Dec. 9, 2024 in New York City. Inscribed with the commandments in Paleo-Hebrew script, the tablet was discovered during railroad excavations along the southern coast of Israel in 1913. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images.
How is this revelation different from all others?
Since Christians and Muslims acknowledge that the Jews are their elders and their religion’s foundational source, why aren’t Jews and Israel treated with more respect?
David Levine
May 29, 2025
Children perform as part of a Shavuot celebration in Kibbutz Ein Ziwan, Golan Heights, on June 11, 2024. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.
One nation, one heart, many ideas
The Torah offers a blueprint for education and growth.
Simmy Allen
May 29, 2025
“Festival of the First Fruits in Israel“ (“Hag Ha-Bikkurim“), Shavuot 1968. Photo by Amos Gil/PikiWiki Project Israel 8660 via Wikimedia Commons.
Finding the ‘bikkurim’ moment
For Jews in the Diaspora, finding a sense of connection to our historical roots can seem harder than it does in Israel. But the inspiration is there.
Jan Lee
May 29, 2025