A Jewish organization is hoping to spark conversation this Passover about the rise of antisemitism today with some modern additions to the traditional Seder meal. "Passover is the most widely ...
The festival of Passover starts Saturday. Jews throughout the world will commemorate the exodus from Egypt and the birth of a covenantal people. Passover's narrative, culminating in the formation of ...
Along with Jews the world over, I’m preparing to celebrate the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery, as recounted primarily in the biblical book of Exodus. Usually, the coming of ...
(RNS) — It never fails to happen. At every Seder that I have led or attended for the past several decades, when we get to the Ten Plagues, someone offers his or her own list of modern plagues. It ...
When the Passover holiday begins — on the evening of April 8 in 2020 — Jewish people around the world will celebrate by retelling the biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt — including the 10 plagues ...
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! Pharaoh, let my people show! A bevy of ...
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. There are many plagues in the Bible, comparable in some ways to the plague of the coronavirus the world is ...
Passover is a wonderful holiday with myriad themes that can be discussed at our Seder tables. One theme that I like to explore is how we understand God as our Creator who teaches us right from wrong.
Yesterday concluded the Jewish holiday of Passover, commemorating Exodus, by which I mean the biblical story of Exodus, as opposed to “Exodus” the Bob Marley album, Exodus the thrash-metal band or ...
Temple Beth Hillel’s annual Passover trek to the desert has often found itself, well, plagued. One year, wind so pelted campers that they circled their RVs for protection. During another, Rabbi Jim ...
I was just about to pass over Passover. My husband Paul and I had been invited to two seders in Los Angeles, but one was a rock and the other was a hard place. At the former, there would be three ...