How can I get my non-Jewish friends to acknowledge my holidays?
Bintel says: Try inviting them over for blintzes on Shavuot
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Opinion This Shavuot, we are in the golden age of female Torah study
There are so many female rabbi-scholars of Torah that it is no longer remarkable
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News An app that can generate 64,000 kosher cheesecake recipes aims to prove AI’s value for Orthodox Jews
Abraham Bree created CheesecakeWizard.ai to introduce the technology to his community, despite its ambivalence about the internet
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Culture Everything you need to know about cheese for Shavuot (including how to make a killer cheesecake)
Why on this day of all other days are we encouraged to eat feta, cream cheese and various dairy desserts?
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Fast Forward Now translated into 49 Jewish languages: the Jewish spring ritual of counting the Omer
The counting, which takes place between the second night of Passover and the festival of Shavuot, can now be done in Judeo-Catalan and other historical Jewish vernaculars
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Yiddish World Paper cuttings for Shavuos — a Jewish folk tradition
The “shvueslekh” were mounted on window panes as a way of celebrating the spring holiday.
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News Appeals court rules for Jewish prisoners: Let them eat cheesecake
Jewish inmates who request cheesecake for Shavuot must get it. That’s what a three-judge federal appeals court panel unanimously ruled last week in a lawsuit filed by two Jewish prisoners who held that the vegan meals the Michigan Department of Corrections served them did not fulfill their kosher dietary needs. Cheesecake was not in the…
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Food For creamy and decadent Shavuot dishes, try tahini
_Amy Zitelman co-founded Soom Foods with her sisters Shelby and Amy in 2013. Good timing: they focused on top-quality tahini just as the Middle Eastern ingredient craze — sumac! silan! zaatar! — was spreading across restaurant dining rooms and supermarket shelves. Philadelphia chef Michael Solomonov of Zahav and, well, everything, gave them their first order,…
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