Happy Shavuot, the Cheesy Holiday!

 The holiday of Shavuot starts on the evening of Thursday, May 21st this year.

Here is a Dry Bones cartoon from 2009 by Yaakov Kirschen. Posted by Sali

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Erev Shavuot starts Thursday (but I made a mistake about when it ends)

 The holiday of Shavuot starts on the evening of Thursday, May 21st this year. I need to make a correction to my earlier post. I said that it is a week long holiday, but it is in fact one day long in Israel and two days everywhere else.

Here is a Dry Bones cartoon from 2018 by Yaakov Kirschen.

Shavuot is a holiday that commemorates the Jews receiving the Torah, and the 10 commandments, from God, that Moses brought down from Mount Sinai. It is also is a harvest festival. We harvest the wheat and barley. We honor converts, and tell the story of Ruth, mother of King David. We also eat lots of cheese and milk products. Shavuot means "weeks" in Hebrew as it signifies the seven week period between Passover and the completion of the counting of the "Omer", hence, Shavuot. Some Christians refer to this holiday as Pentecost, as seven weeks is also 50 days.

We, here in Israel are celebrating with cheese cake, and also sort of waiting to see when the missiles will start up again. Of course, in the north, despite saying we are in a ceasefire, missiles and mostly drones are attacking everyday, as the army is attempting to keep the residents safe. Welcome to the Middle East and it's symbols and customs. 😀 Love, Sali

Happy Holiday to all!

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  I am so very thankful for so much!

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Erev Shavuot starts Thursday

 The holiday of Shavuot starts on the evening of Thursday, May 21st this year. Here is a Dry Bones cartoon from 2018 by Yaakov Kirschen.

Shavuot is a week long holiday that commemorates the Jews receiving the Torah, and the 10 commandments, from God, that Moses brought down from Mount Sinai. It is also is a harvest festival. We harvest the wheat and barley. We honor converts, and tell the story of Ruth, mother of King David. We also eat lots of cheese and milk products. Shavuot means "weeks" in Hebrew as it signifies the seven week period between Passover and the completion of the counting of the "Omer", hence, Shavuot. Some Christians refer to this holiday as Pentecost, as seven weeks is also 50 days.

We, here in Israel are celebrating with cheese cake, and also sort of waiting to see when the missiles will start up again. Of course, in the north, despite saying we are in a ceasefire, missiles and mostly drones are attacking everyday, as the army is attempting to keep the residents safe. Welcome to the Middle East and it's symbols and customs. 😀 Love, Sali

Happy Holiday to all!

Wishing you health and happiness, peace and prosperity.

Thank you so much to all of you who have donated! And thank you to all who have written me beautiful notes.

  I am so very thankful for so much!

Please consider donating to Dry Bones

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Much love and joyful New Year of 2026. Blessings to you and your families and loved ones.

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Shavuot 2022

A Happy Cheese-eating Shavuot Holiday to us ALL!

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Shavuot

Yes it's Shavuot, our Cheese-eating holiday!

Shavuot 2016 begins in the evening of Saturday, June 11 and ends in the evening of Sunday, June 12.
In communities outside of the Jewish State, two days of Shavuot are observed and the holiday ends in the evening of Monday June 13.

Happy Shavuot

Hag Sameah! Happy Shavuot Holiday! Sunset tomorrow , Saturday May 23, ushers in our cheese-eating holiday of Shavuot! Next Cartoon will be after the holiday, on Tuesday May 26.
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Yummy Cheesy Shavuot

Saturday night, May 23 and will last until Monday evening May 25.
The food "theme" of this ancient Biblical holiday is ...CHEESE!
Yummy.
Enjoy!

Keep Counting

Today is Lag Ba'Omer; and we continue counting the days 'til the cheese-eating holiday called Shavuot. "Shavuot" is the Hebrew word for "weeks" and we're counting a week of weeks from Passover Matzos to Shavuot cheese.

Happy Holiday

The subtitle of today's cartoon should be "Here's Looking At You!"

Tonight is the start of the Shavuot Holiday. Enjoy. Hag Sameah! Next toon (if all goes well) on Friday.

We Can Do It

Israel’s enemies try to erase the pre-1948 history of the Jews in the Land of Israel. But China has not yet been infected with this denial of Jewish History.

We propose to inoculate the 1.3 billion Chinese against this modern libel with exciting, popular, online, and free to download apps and eBooks …in a form and with content that will appeal to both the Chinese establishment and Chinese university students alike.

Yup! A unique project to bring China and the Jews closer together through educational, digital, Chinese-language, graphic works written and drawn by award-winning Dry Bones cartoonist, scholar, and political analyst Yaakov Kirschen (me)

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Happy Holidays

Right now I'm away from my studio.
I did today's cartoon before leaving for a U.S. lecture tour.

We are so caught up in the battle for the survival of Judeo Christian Civilization and the Jewish State that we seem always to be in a "fighting mood". I hope no one is offended by today's cartoon. It comes with my best wishes for all of us. Happy Holiday(s)!

I'm in America on my "Dry Bones Campaign to turn Z Street into the Grass Roots Zionist Movement that America Needs", and to explain my YIISA (Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism) "Secret Codes" findings.

* * * You can keep up with my adventures in the U.S.A. by following me at facebook.com/drybonescartoon.

I plan to return home to Israel in time for for Shavuot (June 7).

Happy Shavuot

Tomorrow is Erev Shavuot. Shops, offices, and businesses across the country will close early, and sundown will usher in the Shavuot holiday. The food "theme" of this ancient Biblical holiday is ...CHEESE! For previous Dry Bones cartoons, info, links, and columns about this cheese-eating holiday, just click on Shavuot.

Happy Holiday! Hag Samaeah!

The next Dry Bones cartoon will be posted on Monday (June 1, 2009).

Shavuot Holiday

Sunday night will usher in this year's celebration of Shavuot, so there will be no cartoon on Monday while Israel shuts down for the holiday. Meanwhile you can soak up a lot of info about this cheese-eating holiday that celebrates both the new harvest and the ancient giving of the Law at Mount Sinai by checking out our previous Shavuot Postings.

Hag Sameah! (Happy Holiday)

The Shavuot Holiday (1997)

Tonight (Tuesday May 22, 2007) is the eve of the Shavuot holiday, so I'm posting this Golden Oldie from 1997. When I was a kid growing up in America, the holiday was called Shavuos, but these days (I think) the Israeli Hebrew Shavuot has taken over.

There are many reasons given for the emphasis on eating cheese and other dairy products. I've never seen what is the most obvious one. At Passover time the baby calves, goats,and lambs were born. This, of course triggered the production of milk in their mothers. Now, seven weeks later, much of the milk has been saved as cheese.

I know that my explanation lacks all the intricate and beautiful Talmudic reasoning that illuminates and explains our customs.
Sorry.

For some previous Shavuot cartoons click here.