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    Items with the category:

    Shavuot

    Essay

    Find­ing the Words: Women and Prayer

    Jaime Hern­don
    May 19, 2025
    Excerpt

    Excerpt: The Euca­lyp­tus Cookbook

    Moshe Bas­son
    June 10, 2024
    Essay

    Women’s Friend­ship: From Ruth and Nao­mi to Hen­ri­et­ta Szold

    Francine Klags­brun
    June 3, 2024
    Essay

    The Rel­e­vance of Ruth to Shavuot

    Ilana Pardes
    May 19, 2023
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    Chil­dren’s
    Mr. Mintz’s Blintzes
    Leslie Kimmelman, Esther Hernando (Illustrator)
    Essay

    Won­der and Mar­vel: Women and the Art of Shavuot

    Emi­ly Schneider
    May 27, 2020
    Excerpt

    Excerpt — Glean­ings: Reflec­tions on Ruth

    A pre-Shavuot read

    Stu­art Halpern
    May 31, 2019
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    Non­fic­tion
    Glean­ings: Reflec­tions on Ruth
    Stu­art Halpern
    Cover of Shavuos Guess Who?
    Chil­dren’s
    Shavu­os Guess Who?
    Arielle Stern; Patti Argoff, illus.
    Cover of The Art Lesson: A Shavuot Story
    Chil­dren’s
    The Art Les­son: A Shavuot Story
    Allison & Wayne Marks; Annie Wilkinson, illus.
    Cover of Yossi and the Monkeys: a Shavuot Story
    Chil­dren’s
    Yos­si and the Mon­keys: a Shavuot Story
    Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod; Shirley Waisman, illus.
    Cover of Cheesecake for Shavuot
    Chil­dren’s
    Cheese­cake for Shavuot
    Allison Ofanasky; Eliyahu Alpern, illus.
    Cover of Rejoice in Your Festivals: Penetrating Insights Into Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot
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    Rejoice in Your Fes­ti­vals: Pen­e­trat­ing Insights Into Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot
    Rabbi Zvi Dov Kanatopsky; David A. Zomick, ed.
    Cover of Sammy Spider's First Shavuot
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    Sam­my Spi­der’s First Shavuot
    Sylvia Rouss; Katherine Janus Kahn, illus.
    Cover of A Dozen Daisies for Raizy: A Shavuos Story
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    A Dozen Daisies for Raizy: A Shavu­os Story
    Rebecca Klempner; Chava, illus.
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    Cel­e­brat­ing the Jew­ish Year: The Spring and Sum­mer Holidays
    Paul Steinberg; Janet Greenstein Potter, ed.

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