J. The Jewish News of Northern California

From Passover to Shavuot: What the Omer offering teaches us about growth

We count the Omer in order to emphasize the rise from the mentality of slavery to the enlightenment that we would realize at ...
The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle

Sefirat HaOmer is too many things

You shall count for yourselves, from the day after Shabbat, from the day on which you will bring the Omer of the ...
The Forward

Now translated into 49 Jewish languages: the Jewish spring ritual of counting the Omer

(JTA) — There are 49 days between the second night of Passover and the holiday of Shavuot, but who’s counting? Jews the world over, in fact, and in languages familiar and obscure. The daily counting ...
The Jewish Exponent

Making It Count: Area Jews Find Meaning in Omer Rituals

“Climbing Mt. Sinai – Counting the Omer,” created by Rabbi Gila Ruskin, is a mosaic Omer counter. | Courtesy of Gila Ruskin In 2000, Brandeis University health policy researcher Brian Rosman created ...
The Forward

Marking Time: Recounting the Omer

Since the Passover Seder is a time for questions, it should come as little surprise that some would be raised by an easily missed moment tucked into the Haggada’s back half. During the recitation of ...
The Times of Israel

It’s the Little Things That Count

The Torah reading for the Second Day of Pesah, which details the mitzvot of the Omer, offers a compelling opportunity to reflect on how a simple measure of barley flour could carry such weight as to ...