At sundown April 1, Jews around the world celebrate the first night of Passover, among the most important of Jewish holidays.
Amid war with Iran, thousands of Israelis and tourists leave Israel through Taba in a modern-day reverse Exodus. *Exodus 10:1 ...
A parody of multiple Passover seder songs by the Israeli Tziporela Theatre Company starts with a simple tweak: Instead of ...
According to Bar-Ilan University's Joshua Berman, who curated the new hagaddah ‘Echoes of Egypt,' the biblical narrative ...
The lesson of Passover is that we must learn to recognize Egypt not only in overt cruelty, but in the quiet normalization of systems that diminish human dignity. In the AI age, this means questioning ...
This is essentially what Passover is: an exodus from the control of the desire to receive, called “Egypt,” to the desire to ...
Rabbi Stern served as a congregational rabbi in Nyack, New York, and as director of Neighborhood Interfaith Movement in Mount Airy. He is a member of the Dorshei Derekh Reconstructionist minyan at ...
In Israel, the holiday ends on April 8. Each year, the holiday falls on different dates due to Jewish tradition abiding by a lunar calendar. The holiday is almost always entirely in April, although ...
The Jews were instructed to sacrifice a lamb or kid and smear its blood on the house’s lintel or doorpost. Seeing the blood, ...
In this sense, remaining in the land at this time is a particularly profound expression of that ancient story. It says: We ...