Ten commandments

Your Investments: Shavuot lessons, from Torah to retirement planning

Shavuot celebrates receiving the Torah. Beyond cheesecake, the holiday teaches restraint, morality, and living wisely, including lessons on finances and desire.

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After October 7, the shattered tablets at the heart of Shavuot matter more than ever - opinion

Tucker Carlson speaks during AmericaFest, the first Turning Point USA summit since the death of Charlie Kirk, in Phoenix, Arizona, US December 18, 2025.

Shavuot reflections: Media falsehoods show the importance of the Ninth Commandment - editorial

 US financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019.

The Epstein scandals and the collapse of moral restraint - opinion


Parashat Yitro: Illuminating the fog

Moses understood that genuine service of God is not found in thunder and lightning but rather in the place of fog, confusion, and lack of clarity.

The God one seeks is found precisely in the confusing, unclear place.

US appeals court to reconsider Louisiana's Ten Commandments law it struck down

Louisiana's law required the display of posters or framed versions of the Ten Commandments in K-12 schools and state-funded colleges.

 The slab displaying the Ten Commandments rests just north of the Capitol in Austin, Texas.

"You Shall Not Covet": Tiltan graduates interpret the Ten Commandments through graphic design

Tiltan Haifa’s Graphic Design Department presents a graduation exhibition where students share personal, modern interpretations of the Ten Commandments. Showing on the rooftop Aug 7–Nov 6.

Tiltan – The College of Design and Visual Communication

The many faces of Shavuot harvest, revelation, and tradition

The Torah is described as the Tree of Life, and there is a legend that Mount Sinai once was a “green mountain” covered with trees and shrubs.

 Another biblical name for Shavuot is Yom HaBikkurim (Day of the First Fruits), referring to the joyful pilgrimage to Jerusalem, where the Israelites offered up baskets of their first ripe fruits and bread baked from the newly harvested wheat.

Texas legislature passes bill mandating Ten Commandments in public school classrooms

Critics argue it infringes the Constitution's separation of church and state and the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

 Texas legislature passes bill mandating Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.

Proposal requiring classroom displays of Ten Commandments passes Texas House

The underlying measure is among Republicans’ efforts this session to expand religion in public classrooms. Lawmakers voted Friday to send a bill to Abbott allowing prayer time in public schools.

 The slab displaying the Ten Commandments rests just north of the Capitol in Austin, Texas.

Beyond the Headlines: Unity, Identity and the Torah Within

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 READING FROM the Torah in synagogue: Shavuot celebrates the giving of the Ten Commandments. These commandments, like the Torah, offer stories, insights, values and actions as ways in to God

Ancient Ten Commandments tablet sells for $5 million at Sotheby's auction

Some experts question the tablet's authenticity and its purported dating between 300 and 800 CE.

A stone tablet thought to be about 1,500 years old with a, worn-down chiseled inscription of the Ten Commandments.

The oldest known stone tablet of the Ten Commandments to be auctioned by Sotheby's

For thirty years, the plaque served as a paving stone at the entrance of a house, with the inscription facing up and exposed to foot traffic.

 An ancient marble tablet inscribed with an ancient Hebrew version of the biblical Ten Commandment.

Louisiana's ten commandments mandate: Culture war or constitutional crisis? - opinion

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry's recent legislation mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms has sparked controversy and legal threats.

 HATS WITH the slogan ‘Make America Pray Again’ are displayed at the National Religious Broadcasters Association International Christian Media Convention, addressed by Donald Trump, in Nashville, in February.