Sharing Shavuot

Children at Finchley Reform Synagogue Kindergarten in north London got up close and personal with farmyard animals who visited to help them celebrate Shavuot. The festival remembers the day when God gave the Torah to the Jewish nation on top of Mount Sinai, presenting them with the Ten Commandments, and their true freedom from the Pharaoh. The young animals are symbolic, as the festival also celebrates the first fruits of harvest in Israel. With dairy products traditionally eaten at Shavuot, the kindergarten children learned how to make a cheesecake. Nursery manager Sharon Lee said, 'The children also made up their...