{"id":127,"date":"2010-05-19T11:17:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T11:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/jews-celebrate-shavuot-as-jewish-american-heritage-month-continues.html"},"modified":"2010-05-19T11:17:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T11:17:53","slug":"jews-celebrate-shavuot-as-jewish-american-heritage-month-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/jews-celebrate-shavuot-as-jewish-american-heritage-month-continues.html","title":{"rendered":"Jews Celebrate Shavuot as Jewish American Heritage Month Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/jews-celebrate-jewish-american-heritage-month.html\">Jewish American Heritage Month<\/a>, and today is also Shavuot, the holiday marking when the <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/05\/18\/explainer-what%E2%80%99s-shavuot-hint-it-starts-tonight\/\">ancient Israelites,&nbsp;led by Moses from slavery in Egypt,&nbsp;received the Torah <\/a>at Mount Sinai. <\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Faiths\/Judaism\/2001\/05\/Seven-Ways-To-Celebrate-Shavuot.aspx\">Beliefnet&#8217;s celebration ideas<\/a>, and here are some links to related news stories on the holiday, which began at sundown yesterday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.jta.org\/telegraph\/article\/2010\/05\/18\/2394861\/different-reads-on-shavuot\">Different reads on Shavuot <\/a>(JTA)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Features\/InThespotlight\/Article.aspx?id=175862\">The burden and the gift <\/a>(Jerusalem Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/faith\/ci_15090769?nclick_check=1\">Bay Area Jewish groups offer new twist on old holiday: Shavuot <\/a>(San Jose Mercury News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also, Sholom Rubashkin&#8217;s state trial on child labor charges, related to the government&#8217;s raid on his family&#8217;s now-defunct kosher slaughterhouse Agriprocessors two years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20100518\/NEWS01\/5180352\/-1\/BUSINESS04\/Rubashkin-in-hospital-trial-delayed-until-Friday\">has been postponed until Friday so that he can observe the holiday<\/a>. The ultra-Orthodox Jew&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/kosher-meatpacking-plant-executive-sentenced.html\">sentencing on the federal bank fraud charges <\/a>is scheduled for next Thursday, May 27 &#8211; check back for updates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still Jewish American Heritage Month, and today is also Shavuot, the holiday marking when the ancient Israelites,&nbsp;led by Moses from slavery in Egypt,&nbsp;received the Torah at Mount Sinai. Check out Beliefnet&#8217;s celebration ideas, and here are some links to related news stories on the holiday, which began at sundown yesterday: Different reads on Shavuot&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jews Celebrate Shavuot as Jewish American Heritage Month Continues - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/jews-celebrate-shavuot-as-jewish-american-heritage-month-continues.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jews Celebrate Shavuot as Jewish American Heritage Month Continues - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s still Jewish American Heritage Month, and today is also Shavuot, the holiday marking when the ancient Israelites,&nbsp;led by Moses from slavery in Egypt,&nbsp;received the Torah at Mount Sinai. 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