What are we celebrating on Shavuot and what is “tikkun leil Shavuot”?

If we succeed in raising the importance on Shavuot and focus creatively on larger populations, Shavuot will become a major celebration of not only our Jewish past but our Jewish future as well.

Take a photographic journey in Zfat with Dave Bender, as he learns how a devout Jewish scribe completes a Torah scroll.

There was never any question that Israel would be our home. I don't know if it was fate or if it was just "beshert", but I believe that this is where we are supposed to be.

Throughout Jewish history our people have been called by different names, for different reasons: Hebrew, Israelite, Children of Israel, Jew. What does our name, our title have to do with our identity? Which shapes the other?

Why do we identify with our specific labels more than we identify with our larger and more fundamental label - being a Jew? Why does everyone from the outside treat us as the same (an Antisemite doesn’t discriminate between different types of Jews) but we so starkly discriminate within ourselves?

It’s getting harder and harder to love the Jews. Or, to put the matter more precisely, its getting harder and harder to love those Jews who aren’t just like us.