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Left vs. Right / The Knesset

Anarchists Plan Chametz 'Tik Tok' Protest

By Jewish Press News Desk

The latest protest is about hospital managers being allowed to block entry of Chametz into their hospitals on Passover.

Holidays & Observances / Health and Medicine

Safety and Health Tips for Passover from United Hatzalah

By Jewish Press News Desk

“Each year we see that the number of emergency calls received by our organization rises dramatically over the holiday."

Headline / IDF & Security / Holidays & Observances / Photo of the Day / Judaism

Authorized to Sell

By Jewish Press News Desk

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman authorized IDF Chief Rabbi Eyal Karim to sell all the IDF's Chametz to a non-Jew.

Photo of the Day

Mimouna

By Photo of the Day

Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend a Mimouna celebration in Hadera.

Featured / Politics / Government / Holidays & Observances / Anti-Israel NGOs / Israeli Arabs

Arab NGO Demands Ending Passover​​ Ban on Chametz in Israeli Hospitals

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.

Featured / Politics / The Knesset / Holidays & Observances

Leftist MK to Propose Nullifying Israel's Passover Laws

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.'

The Tamar Yonah Show

The Tamar Yonah Show - KITNIYOT: To EAT or NOT TO EAT? That is the Question.

By Israel News Talk Radio

Should Ashkenazim drop the old customs and all eat like native 'Israelis' on Pesach?

Photo of the Day

Mechirat Chametz

By Photo of the Day

This amusing meme has been making its way through the Jewish internet.

US / News Briefs / Holidays & Observances / Arts and Entertainment

No Joy in Yeshivaville: Ringling Brothers Strike their Tent after Passover

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.

Photo of the Day

Mimouna

By Photo of the Day

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:

Halacha & Hashkafa

Chametz Repurchase

By Rabbi Meir Orlian

"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?"

Halacha & Hashkafa

Selling Someone Else’s Chametz

By Rabbi Meir Orlian

Since this action is for the other person's clear benefit, you are considered a 'self-appointed' agent.

Photo of the Day

Selling the Chometz

By Photo of the Day

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.

Holidays

Blessed Are Those Who Eat Chametz!

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.

Op-Eds

Chag Kasher v. Sa’meach

By Paul Gherkin

Our family is so famous for our foiling, that we get Happy Passover cards from Alcoa.

The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com

The 'Song of the Creator' and Today's 'Pascal Lamb'

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!

Video of the Day

The Difference Between Wheat and Rice on Pesach

By Video of the Day

A little bit of humor on a serious Pesach subject.

Jewish / News Briefs / Religion

Passover 5773-2013 Is Around the Corner

By Jewish Press Staff

An elementary list of reminders regarding the Holiday of Freedom.

Serials

Getzlight - Chapter I

By Ruchama Feuerman

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