Jewish communities are commemorating Passover, which this year began at sundown Wednesday and ends Thursday. Sacred traditions and Seders are ways it is observed. Seders are feasts among families, ...

Apr. 9—The lessons inherent in Passover — at once a solemn and celebratory occasion to remember the Israelites' liberation from slavery in Egypt — still hold a strong meaning for people to this day.

In preparing for the upcoming Passover holiday and the associated Seders—festive meals when millions of Jews and their families will sit down as a community to recount the Exodus from Egypt, ...

Passover emphasizes charity and helping others, particularly providing for those in need. The tradition of "Maot Chitim" ensures everyone can participate in the holiday, regardless of their financial ...

Jason Bedrick is a research fellow with The Heritage Foundation's Center for Education Policy. America is suffering from a cultural Alzheimer’s. An ancient Jewish ritual—the Passover seder—may hold ...

Even people who don’t celebrate Passover have been exposed to lessons from the Exodus (if only through Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments”), but some of us retain water better than we retain the ...

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Free Expression: Speaking on Feb. 26, 2025, two unlikely prophets of a new spirituality—co-founder of Twitter, Biz Stone, and co-founder of Pinterest, Evan Sharp—entranced an audience of ambitious ...

Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, the holy and pious Chasidic master, was referred to as the “Defense Minister of Israel.” This was long before the founding of the modern state of Israel, and no, he ...

For dozens of Jewish schoolchildren this week, Rabbi Levi Teldon set up a traveling matzo bakery at Congregation Agudas Achim to highlight the crackerlike item at the heart of the Passover observance.