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Shavuot: A feast for body and soul
Last weekend, we left the city behind and drove about an hour south to my mother-in-law's kibbutz to see the rolling fields of ripening wheat ready to be harvested just before the Shavuot holiday, exactly like it was in ancient times.
Shavuot, starting...Tags: Israel, Russia, Passover, Crime, Law and Justice, Judaism
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Fresh homemade cheeses for Shavuot
Sometimes when I'm in the kitchen making fresh cheese, I imagine what it must have been like for the primitive nomads who first discovered that the fresh, sweet liquid they had so laboriously milked from their precious flocks quickly soured in the...Tags: Cream Cheese, Judaism, Sour Cream, Festive Events, Holidays
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For the record: June 3 (Food)
Harvest festival: In a Food section story May 27, it was reported that the Jewish holiday Shavuot ended at sundown Friday. That is the practice in Israel. For most Jews in the United States, it ended at sundown on Saturday.Tags: Judaism
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ISRAEL: New monument pays tribute to old hurt of Iraqi Jews
Babylon & BeyondWhen talking about life in the old country, Israel's Iraqi-born Jews acknowledge two eras: before the Farhoud, and after. In June 1941, during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, nearly 200 of Baghdad's Jews were slain in a killing rampage that......
Jun 2, 2011
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May 27, 2009
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Jun 3, 2009
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Apr 11, 2010
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