Passover holds huge importance to the Jewish community and provides a chance for families to come together and celebrate as one. During the festival, Jews remember how their ancestors - the ...

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Display the seder plate and hide the afikomen – Passover begins this week. Passover, or Pesach, is a major Jewish holiday during the month of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar, usually falling in March or ...

As millions of Jewish Americans celebrate Passover this week, we revisited the timeless Passover teaching when we gathered around our Seder tables and recited: “In every generation, a person must see ...

I have long aspired to uphold Passover’s teaching to have compassion for the stranger. But the noise surrounding Israel’s war with Hamas has drowned out my capacity for empathy. On a recent walk near ...

Springtime brings both a sense of excitement and a sense of anxiety thinking about the upcoming spring Jewish holiday of Passover. Passover commemorates the Exodus from Egypt and is celebrated by ...

We started teaching Maya and Eli the Four Questions of Passover just as they were learning to talk. (This photo is from last year’s Seder as they stood to sing them). Four Questions…. Judaism requires ...

In the Torah scroll, there are a handful of scribal oddities – letters that are too big or too small, or upside down or backward, or with dots over them – and for whatever reason they were originally ...