Henrietta Szold ran Youth Aliyah, an organization that rescued 30,000 Jewish children from Nazi Europe and she remained a mother figure to many of those children. To honor her memory, 'Family Day' is marked on the anniversary of her death.

These items highlight different aspects of this holiday and demonstrates how it was celebrated in different times and places in the Jewish world.

A look at the Kabbalistic significance of the Counting of the Omer, which culminates in the festival of Shavuot