By Debbie Schlussel

I’m away from sundown tonight until nightfall Thursday Night in observance of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot (also called Shavuos), which is “Pentecost” in English.

I know I haven’t posted much these last few months because of other commitments and so on. But I’m going to try to post something new every weekday from now on, because I’ve been neglectful of it, I miss it, and I miss hearing from all of you on the things I write. There are too many important things going on in the world to skip comment.

While I’m away for the holiday, I have some things I’ve prepared to go up in my absence. I think you’ll find them of interest, including my recent interaction with a cowardly CNN host who walked out on me because he couldn’t handle my answers to his ignorant questions on Islam and jihad.

In the meantime, to learn more about Shavuot, one of the three Jewish harvest festivals, read here. This is the holiday on which we read the beautiful scroll of Ruth, stay up all night to learn the Torah, and eat dairy (a lot of people make and have cheesecake for dessert), among other things. As I’ve noted in the past, because Judaism is not riddled with absurd feminism (or at least, in its purest form, shouldn’t be), women aren’t required to learn all night, though they can. Me, taking my non-obligations and non-feminism, seriously, I won’t be doing so.

See ya Thursday night, but in the meantime stay tune. I think you’ll like what I have in store in my absence.