Shavuot area activities

Shavuot, the Festival of Weeks, will begin Saturday night, May 23, at sundown. The holiday is the culmination of the Counting of the Omer, the 49-day period the falls between the second night of Passover and the beginning of the holiday intended to commemorate when the wandering Hebrew nation received the Law in the form of the Torah at Mt. Sinai during the Exodus.

Renaissance painter Rembrandt captured the image of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai. (Image courtesy of Wikmedia)

The period of the Omer is comprised of seven weeks, hence the designation as the Festival of Weeks.

CHABAD LUBAVITCH – UPTOWN: BTESH FAMILY CHABAD HOUSE Shavuot First Day: Services Saturday 8:30 p.m. followed by all-night night learning Saturday night at 11:30 till? – Sunday morning services 10:00 a.m. (Torah reading 11:00 a.m.) – Dairy Kiddush & Ice Cream Party 12:30
Sunday night services 7:30 p.m.
Shavuot Second Day: Monday morning services 10:00 a.m. – Yizkor 11:30
ROHR TULANE STUDENT CHABAD CENTER – Shavuot First Day: Shavuot Dinner 8:30 p.m. followed by all-night Torah study at 11:00 p.m. Second Day: Shavuot Dinner 9:00 p.m.
CHABAD LUBAVITCH- METAIRIE: GERSON KATZ CHABAD CENTER Shavuot First Day Kiddush and dairy dinner 9:00 p.m.followed by Shavuot game. Learning sessions with Rabbis Yossi Nemes and Mendel Ceitlin. Dessert buffet 11:00 p.m. Learning continues
12:15 a.m. Jambalaya! 12:30 p.m. Sunday morning services 10:00 a.m. Kids ice cream partky 10:45 a.m. Reading of 10 Commandments 11:00 a.m. Dairy Kiddush lunch 12:15 p.m. Shavuot Second Day: Morning services 9:30 a.m.Yizkor at 11:00 a.m.

CONGREGATION ANSHE SFARD – Shavuot First Day: Sunday, May 24) Morning Service at 9:15 a.m.
Buffet Kiddush Lunch featuring pasta from Waffles on Maple following the conclusion of services
(Second Day: Monday, May 26) Morning Service at 9:15 a.m. Yizkor–10:45 AM
Dairy Kiddish-Lunch following the conclusion of services

CONGREGATIONS BETH ISRAEL, GATES OF PRAYER and SHIR CHADASH CONSERVATIVE CONGREGATION – SHAVUOT, Saturday May 23
8:30 p.m. MAARIV (Candlelighting after 8:33 p.m.) Dairy desserts at 8:45 p.m.
All three Metairie congregations representing Orthodox, Reform and Conservative movements will join together for a Tikkun Leil Shavuot, “perfecting our world through the study of Torah.”
Learning sessions begin at 9:15 and 10:15 p.m. with panels of community educators; All three rabbis will join in a panel discussion at 11:00 p.m.; Learning continues from 12 midnight until 5:00 a.m.

CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL – Sunday, May 24; Festival minyan at 9:00 a.m. with Hallel; Monday, May 25 (Second Day) Shacharit at 9:00 a.m.; Yizkor at 10:30 a.m.; 8:33 yom tov ends

NORTHSHORE JEWISH CONGREGATION – Rabbi Zecher will lead regular Shabbat service on May 22 and a special Shavout service May 23.

TEMPLE SINAI -Shavuot–Confirmation class services set for Saturday, May 23, 2015 at 7:00 p.m.

TOURO SYNAGOGUE – Saturday, May 23 7:00 p.m: Potluck dairy dinner (participants urged to bring a dairy side dish
7:30 pm: Program titled “Mt. Sinai or not?” with famous Jewish Melodies by Cantor David Mintz
9:00 pm: Sacred Moment of Torah
Sunday, May 24 10:30 a.m. Shavuot Festival Service with Yizkor in the Forgotston Chapel
(Touro will hold its Confirmation Services on May 29)