For six years, Judy Freier, right, has been leading a weekly parsha study group at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino. On a recent Saturday afternoon, about two dozen adults, most of them congregants of ...
(New York Jewish Week) — This weekend is Shavuot, the major Jewish holiday that occurs seven weeks after the second Passover seder and marks the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Though Shavuot is ...
An often-overlooked spring holiday, Shavuot commemorates the moment when God gave the Torah to the Jewish people. For generations, Jews have celebrated with communal Torah study sessions, called ...
(JTA) — On Saturday night, when Lex Rofeberg convenes a group of Jews to study Torah, he expects to pore over Jewish texts. He expects to eat cheesecake. And he expects to decide between 12 different ...