Shavuot Highlight Reel

Something fun for a change. Chag sameach!

With Monday off and Shavuot this weekend, I wasn’t able to put in the time to do a proper newsletter, so I’m keeping it light with a little holiday/Jewish world roundup.

Talia Reese @taliareesecomic

Me: Can you believe it’s Shavuot next week? Husband: Well I’ve been counting down to it, so yes.

I realized I could spend the entire newsletter just asking the internet to share its thoughts on what exactly Shavuot is. Harvest holiday? Giving of the Torah? Conversion story? Cheesecake bingefest?

roche @kvetchkween

asked the rabbi here why we eat dairy on Shavuot and he was like idk man

Like many of our customs, there are a lot of reasons and none of them are very clear. The custom of consuming dairy may have started as late as the 14th century. I like to think that the custom of eating cheesecake will be carried on by our descendants, who will hearken back to their ancestral memory of America.

Here is Seattle’s own Sharona Hassan with a little rundown.

@sharonahassan#jmoms #shavuot #Torah #jewish

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For anyone who thinks Israel is the most controversial place in the world…they are right.

Israeli TV decided not to run a pro-vegan ad reminding the Jewish people that Shavuot is not really about cheesecake, but about a harvest of fruits and vegetables.

Haaretz.com @haaretzcom

Israeli television channels are refusing to run an ad arguing that this weekend's Shavuot holiday ought to be celebrated with fruits and vegetables instead of the "traditional" dairy products

haaretz.com‘Ideologically controversial:’ Israeli TV channels refuse to run anti-dairy ad on Shavuot‘The ad’s initial wording and content might have offended the sensibilities of parts of the Israeli public as well as good taste,’ the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation says

A little annoyed with myself that I didn’t come up with this one.

hey.alma

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Oh, then there’s Megillat Ruth, which we read this holiday. Need an explainer?

(((Miriam Anzovin))) @Anzovina

Shalom, friends!! Welcome to #RuthReactions! In honor of #shavuot, 🌾 let’s retell the story of Naomi and Ruth, two women who stand by each other in a time and a place where their entire socioeconomic status was dictated by their relationship to men 😬 youtu.be/SiCJV9IQxI0

youtu.beRuth ReactionsShalom, friends!! Welcome to #RuthReactions! In honor of #shavuot, 🌾 let’s relive the story of Naomi and Ruth, two women who stand by each other in a time a...

Finding a partner is easier, thankfully, these days that it was for a Moabite widow during a famine. Or is it? I leave you with this.

@rabbi_360#stitch with @therapyjeff love therapy Jeff! Here’s some add from a rabbi #rabbi #jewishtiktok #jewtok #judaism #jewish #bashert

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Chag sameach and Shabbat shalom.

Emily

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This Week Last Year

I am excited about this one, because last night I went to the Washington State Jewish Historical Society’s gala and release party for the second edition of Family of Strangers, an absolutely essential book for anyone interested in Seattle’s Jewish history. (Cool thing: I’m in it!) I do hope more people make an effort to understand the Central District and its significance to both Jewish and black communities.

Seattle's Lost Jewish Utopia

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Community Announcements

Check out my latest episode of While You Were Sleeping in Hebrew School on the story of the partisans with the Holocaust Center for Humanity’s Ilana Cone Kennedy.

Check out the Seattle Jewish community calendar and the virtual calendar.

This week’s parasha is Bamidbar.

Candlelighting in Seattle is at 8:42 p.m.

Shoutouts

The publication that is the community resource, Family of Strangers,  is available now on Amazon. We are thankful for this 2nd edition publication and for the authors — original and new that have made this possible to preserve our state’s Jewish history. Thanks, the WSJHS

Shoutout to the class of 2022 at all the day schools! —Samis

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