Name: In Conversation With CNN
Start: 2026-05-31T09:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-05-31T11:30:00+00:00
Location: Temple Sinai

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CNN Discussion - The Media's Role in a Changine Landscape

In Conversation with CNN – May 31

Listen to CNN Anchor and Correspondent John Berman, and CNN Senior Business Reporter David Goldman, as they discuss the role of the Media in today’s dynamic environment.

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Torah from Sinai

Thursday, May 21, 2026 / 5 Sivan 5786
The Festival of Shavuot begins Thursday evening and continues through this Shabbat. This holiday is one of the Shalosh Regalim, one of the three main pilgrimage festivals during which, in ancient times, our ancestors would walk up the mountains to Jerusalem. Shavuot comes at the end of the seven-times-seven (a “week of weeks”) cycle of the Omer, which began on the second day of Pesach. The name “Shavuot” itself means “weeks”. The Festival of Shavuot is something of an oddity. Not only is it not assigned to a specific date, but there is no real explanation given in the Torah as to the meaning of the day. In Biblical times, the period of counting seven weeks marked the transition from the harvest of the first grain crop (barley) in early spring (at Pesach time) to the beginning of the summer grain (wheat) harvest (at Shavuot)….