Word: shavuot
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...honorary degree to Kollek, reported in last week's issue of the Jewish Advocate, has thrust the mayor into the middle of a year-long controversy over University's decision to hold Commence-June 7, a date which conflicts with the second day of the traditional Jewish holiday Shavuot. Not all American Jews recognize the holiday, however...
Seven representatives of student groups yesterday presented to President Bok a 2,200 signature petition asking that the University reschedule Commencement exercises because of a conflict with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot...
...invited and that a private chat about politics and policy would follow. It was a privilege to accept, and they did, though a few of the more orthodox Cabinet members grumbled that the appointed hour was dangerously close to the beginning, at sundown, of a major Jewish celebration: Shavuot, the Feast of Pentecost...
There are other novelties as well. The Essenes celebrated Yom Kippur, Succoth and Shavuot, but the Temple Scroll contains regulations for festivals that are unknown elsewhere in Judaism: the First Fruits of Wine and of Oil, and the Wood Offering, which lasted for six days...
...lengthy statements of halakoth, or religious laws-many of which are found in the Pentateuch, but some new to Biblical scholars. One such regulation, for example, provides for the death penalty for traitors caught spying against the people of Israel. In addition to the annual feast of grains, or Shavuot, the scroll summons the Jewish people to celebrate hitherto unknown feasts of wine and oil following the grape and olive harvests. There are also many sentences insisting upon the need for ritual purity...