Temples join for Torah study and cheesecake

The community is invited to join a collaboration of local synagogues to celebrate the Festival of Shavuot, a holiday that commemorates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai and the Jewish value of learning, on Thursday, May 25, at 7 p.m. at Temple Beth-El of Great Neck.

To honor this mystical tradition, the event will include a Tikkun Leil Shavuot, a series of Torah study sessions on a variety of compelling Jewish topics taught by local clergy.

The evening will culminate with a traditional dessert of dairy foods— often cheesecake or blintzes—symbolizing the “land fowing with milk and honey,” according to Exodus 3:8.

This Shavuot gathering will be especially meaningful, as fve local synagogues—Temple Beth-El of Great Neck, Temple Judea of Manhasset, Temple Tikvah of New Hyde Park, North Country Reform Temple of Glen Cove and Temple Isaiah of Great Neck— join together to observe the holiday. This free event is open to the community, but registration is required (so we have enough cheesecake!).

To register, or for more information, call 516-487-0900, visit www. tbegreatneck.org or email info@ tbegreatneck.org. Temple Beth-El is Great Neck’s oldest synagogue, serving the community for more than 90 years.

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