Balak precedes the Fast of the Fourth Month (that’s what the navi calls Shiv’a Asar b’Tammuz) almost 80% of the time. That includes, in Chutz LaAretz, the years when Shavuot is Friday-Shabbat an ...

A 29-year-old dad has died just weeks after complaining of a stomach ache. Dylan Thomas Wakefield, 29, woke up from his sleep with a "relentless searing pain" in the upper left side of his stomach ...

Two young bears at a wildlife park in the UK had the time of their lives as they ate a week's worth of honey after escaping from their enclosure. On Monday afternoon, June 23, four-year-old siblings ...

Pentecost, also called “Whitsunday” in many other Christian denominations, corresponds to Jewish feast of Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks). In Greece, Pentecost is one of the “Great Christian Feasts” of ...

COMMENTARY: The week’s liturgical calendar features saints who died defying unjust rulers — and feasts that point to the deeper source of true freedom.

Shavuot, coming 50 days after Passover, is when rabbis said God gave Moses the Ten Commandments. Christians know it as Pentecost.

Shavuot is when divine knowledge and instruction is focused on in the Jewish faith. Shavuot and Pentecost are both focused on fifty days. Pentecost occurs fifty days after Jesus’ resurrection.

Let's take a look at what's coming up in Salem this week. Here are the Days of Our Lives spoilers for June 16-20.