The latest protest is about hospital managers being allowed to block entry of Chametz into their hospitals on Passover.
“Each year we see that the number of emergency calls received by our organization rises dramatically over the holiday."
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman authorized IDF Chief Rabbi Eyal Karim to sell all the IDF's Chametz to a non-Jew.
Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend a Mimouna celebration in Hadera.
By JNi.Media
As environmental and religious tit for tat go, in February Adalah fiercely condemned Israel's new 'Muezzin Law,' which set out to curb the imposition of Muslim calls to prayer on non-Muslims.
By JNi.Media
'The decision regarding eating chametz is personal and there is no place for the legislator to become involved by imposing limits and threatening criminal sanctions.'
Should Ashkenazim drop the old customs and all eat like native 'Israelis' on Pesach?
This amusing meme has been making its way through the Jewish internet.
By JNi.Media
The women-free show for the Orthodox Jewish audience included clowns, animals, tight-rope dancers, a basketball team on unicycles and acrobats.
Moroccan Jews (and friends) celebrate Mimouna - the colorful Pesach after-party where chametz (leavened bread) is cooked and eaten alongside other Moroccan pastries and delicacies, and always with music. And here's the Ashkenazi version at Angel's Bakery:
"But doesn't a person's property acquire for him, even without his awareness?" asked Mr. Laufer. "Since the chametz is sitting in my house, wouldn't I acquire it automatically?"
Since this action is for the other person's clear benefit, you are considered a 'self-appointed' agent.
Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau (R), Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (2L), and Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon sell the Chametz (food containing leavening) of the state of Israel to Arab Israeli Mr. Jaber (L) before the upcoming Passover holiday, April 21, 2016.
By Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Pesach, the holiday that symbolizes the formation of the Jewish people, reminds us that sometimes we need to remove the evil inclination entirely so as not to fall victim to it.
By Paul Gherkin
Our family is so famous for our foiling, that we get Happy Passover cards from Alcoa.
By Moshe Herman
Jim Long is a Noahide, a Torah-believing gentile, a filmmaker and publisher, and author of "Riddle of Exodus." He helps get the "philosophical chametz" surrounding the Exodus out of our collective closets. He joins Yishai in-studio, together with Rabbi Michael Shelomo Bar-Ron, author of the just-released "Song of the Creator - Revealing the Super-Intelligent Design of the Pentateuch," which posits that the Five Books of Moses is a perfectly symmetrical document the likes of which could only be written by God. Then, Rabbi Shimshon HaKohen Nadel joins Yishai in-studio to talk about a special mock Pascal Lamb Offering ceremony in Jerusalem he attended along with thousands of other people, among them animal-rights protesters. Listen in!
A little bit of humor on a serious Pesach subject.
An elementary list of reminders regarding the Holiday of Freedom.