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It is traditional to eat dairy Blintzes should be served with foods on Shavuot. Rabbinic lore applesauce or sour cream. We suggests that the ancient recommend that you buy the Israelites ate meat before the frozen version from your 3 boxes frozen blintzes (18 blintzes altogether) giving of the Torah and fell supermarket. If it has a kosher asleep from the heaviness of frozen-food section, they will ¼ pound butter or margarine their meal. Therefore, we eat definitely be there. Otherwise, 7 eggs dairy so that we can be alert the and ready to receive the Torah. 2 cups sour cream Another idea is that Torah is has the best selection. We ½ cup sugar good and sweet, like milk and have included a recipe for “blintz Lifting the Torah scroll after reading 1 teaspoon vanilla Blintzes (crepes) from it. honey. It is possible, however, soufflé,” which can be made with that this practice may have the frozen blintzes, but they ½ teaspoon salt originated because of the really are good on their own. abundance of dairy products at ¼ cup orange juice We have also included a recipe Do you want to this time of the year. for (pudding), Melt butter or margarine in a 13 x 9 inch baking dish. Arrange receive another traditional Shavuot dish. blintzes in dish. newsletters One last possibility is to go out and buy a . That’s Beat remaining ingredients together and pour over blintzes. electronically? These are crepes filled with a another Shavuot favorite! sweetened farmer cheese. Refrigerate for at least one hour. Send an email Bake at uncovered for 1 hour. with your email Serve with applesauce. address to Some residents may have married right after Shavuot. bmagidson@ (Weddings are prohibited for much (a Magidson family favorite) of the omer period that precedes jewishfedny.org it.) ½ pound fine noodles Just as our 1 pound cottage cheese Men from Orthodox ancestors brought their first fruits 3 eggs backgrounds may remember to the Temple at Shavuot time, we staying up all night studying at a decorate the synagogue with 1 teaspoon vanilla When a Jewish resident passes Tikkun Layl Shavuos (TEE-koon flowers and greenery. ½ cup sour cream (non-fat is ok) away, please inform your regular LAIL Shah-VOO-us), then praying visitor (Rabbi Bev, Janie, Rabbi the morning service at dawn, and ½ cup sugar sleeping the entire day. You 4 tablespoons margarine, reserve 2 tablespoons Zoe, Rabbi Ellen, or a may bring it any time after the On the first day volunteer). beginning of the Jewish month of of the holiday, we read the Ten Sivan, the month in which Shavuot Commandments in the Cook noodles about 9 minutes; drain, do not rinse. Add all the It is unsettling to find out about falls. This year Sivan begins on synagogue. We also read the Book above ingredients. Pour into a well-greased 9 x 13 inch pan. the death when we arrive to do a Monday, May 6. of Ruth, whose acceptance of the program. Torah in her own life took place at Sometimes we this time of the year. 2 tablespoons reserved margarine attend funerals or Reform Jews hold ½ teaspoon cinnamon pay timely Confirmation on Shavuot. Those from Reform backgrounds may ½ cup corn flake crumbs condolence (shiva) have been confirmed on Shavuot. ¼ cup sugar calls to the family as well. The women may remember nice Mix all together and crumble on top of kugel evenly. Bake for 45 parties and pretty dresses to Thank you. celebrate minutes at . Blintzes Chaplaincy Services of Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York

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According to the Torah Seven weeks after Passover, we (Leviticus 23:15-16), Jews are celebrate the festival of supposed to count seven Shavuot, which your residents weeks—a week of weeks— will call Shavuos (Shah-VOO-us). from Passover to Shavuot, day While Passover celebrates our by day. liberation from slavery to Every freedom, on Shavuot we night after sundown, the celebrate the giving of the observant Jew counts the new Torah (the Five Books of Moses) day of the omer. Shavuot to the Jewish people. The Torah begins at the end of the omer contains God’s commandments period on the 50th day. Here are some foods that may (Mitzvot), which lead us Jews on In ancient times, this was the remind your Jewish resident a path to holiness. Therefore, period from the barley harvest that it is Shavuot time: to the wheat harvest; and on  Shavuot, farmers brought Jewish Life Newsletter their first fruits to the Temple  Jewish Federation of HOLIDAY DATE in Jerusalem. Today, it is a Northeastern New York time to decorate the synagogue with greens and 

flowers.  The Golub Center 184 Washington Avenue Ext. Albany, NY 12203-5306 Phone: 518.783.7800 ext. 228 While Shavuot is an important holiday in the Torah and on the Fax: 518.783.1557 Jewish liturgical calendar, it is not as widely celebrated as

Email: Passover or even Hanukkah (a minor holiday in comparison). [email protected] Don’t be surprised if your Jewish resident does not immediately think of ways to celebrate Shavuot. Here are some ideas for celebrating that are included in the Newsletter: Rabbi Beverly W. Magidson  Special foods—particularly dairy foods (see box on this page Director and recipes on page 3)

 Decorating with flowers Robert R. Kovach  Reading and discussing the Bible, especially the Book of Ruth President & CEO and the Ten Commandments Jewish Federation of NENY  Reminiscing about confirmations, weddings, and all-night

study sessions