The timing of Shavuot may account both for its relative obscurity and its connection with an important milestone — confirmation. Lila Corwin Berman, director of Temple's Myer and Rosaline Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, said that the linkage of the holiday to confirmation represented "an attempt to turn the holiday into something kid-centric — a sort of acknowledgement that the only holidays that really work in the U.S. are those that focus on children."
