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(RNS) The story of the two-day Jewish festival of Shavuot -- beginning this year at sundown on Tuesday (May 18) is well known, starting with a ragtag group of Israelites who had just escaped slavery in Pharaoh's Egypt. The ancient Israelites, under Moses' leadership, wer...



