By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Mattie, is the rebbetzin of the Schneerson Center, a synagogue in San Francisco, California.
Netanyahu: “On this night, 133 of our dear brothers and sisters are not around the Seder table, and they are still held hostage by Hamas in hellish conditions.”
Ari Fuld discusses: What are we celebrating on Passover and what are the lessons to be learned?
Breaking news: The real story of the Jewish exodus from Egypt by CNN.
Hamas never delivered the medicine to the hostages either.
Pesach laws for soldiers in the field.
By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Raizel Rosenfeld is the rebbetzin of Chabad of Portugal, located in Lisbon.
Hundreds of Jews sang and danced at Rav Shmuel Eliyahu's Musical Hallel at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv on Chol Hamoed Pesach on Tuesday morning.
By COLlive.com
The Released Time program allow for public school students with parental permission to take time during regular school hours to receive religious instruction.
916,300 tourists have visited Israel since the beginning of the year.
By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Sara Oppenheim, along with her husband, Rabbi Chanoch Oppenheim, run the Charlotte Torah Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The latest protest is about hospital managers being allowed to block entry of Chametz into their hospitals on Passover.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
While Muslims enter the holy site freely, Jews are screened by metal detectors, undergo security searches, and are banned from bringing Jewish religious objects to the site.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
While Muslims enter the holy site freely, Jews are screened by metal detectors, undergo security searches, and are banned from bringing Jewish religious objects to the site.
The soldiers spent the Passover holiday at an isolated IDF outpost protecting the state of Israel.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Muslims placed impediments along the path of the route Jews walk on the Temple Mount.
PM Bennett opposes the Pascal sacrifice.
Even had Egypt’s dominance on the world stage declined later in history due to natural circumstances, the Pharaonic worldview would have continued to dominate the thinking of man.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Hamas and the Israeli Police are against Jews sacrificing the Pascal sacrifice.
For some of us, it’s a struggle to get through the seder.
Poland joins countries that have previously been approved for egg imports – Bulgaria, Portugal, Spain and Italy.
By Alan Zeitlin
Roughly 70,000 boxes were ordered; the packages will be sent to Hungary and then transferred to Ukraine.
By Alan Zeitlin
Roughly 70,000 boxes were ordered; the packages will be sent to Hungary and then transferred to Ukraine.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The decision would need to be made soon for families that want to plan their Pesach vacations.
Even the animals in the zoo are celebrating Pesach, at the Ramat Gan Safari.
The huge selection of Tnuva’s delicious kosher l’Pesach dairy products is truly a feast for the eyes.
By Moshe Herman
Join Rabbi Yishai Fleisher for a trip through the Red Sea to understand the miracles, and the personalities, that started the great journey of Israel.
Pesach, Iran, and Prayers
Pictures from the Samaritan Passover ceremony.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman authorized IDF Chief Rabbi Eyal Karim to sell all the IDF's Chametz to a non-Jew.
Passover is not politically correct.
Families always face the dilemma of planning fun and appropriate activities during intermediate days of Passover.
A Jewish father teaches his daughter about the Torah commandment to burn all remaining bits of bread, etc. before the start of Passover.
The message of Pesach is Aliyah to the Promised Land!
We have great difficulty accepting our role as Victor, rather than Victim. We apologize for how well our country functions, for our victories, and for our stubborn refusal to roll over and die.
To what extent does your belief in G-d need to extend to your actions and what does that look like?
Yum, yum! Your table will be a hit this Passover holiday with these scrumptious recipes and holiday tips!
Should Ashkenazim drop the old customs and all eat like native 'Israelis' on Pesach?
Attaining the right perspective on what the Pesach holiday is really all about!
The 10 plagues in face painting.
The 10 plagues in face painting.
The 10 plagues in face painting.
Two men and their 'spiritual' Passover preparations.
Heather Dean interviews different women on 'Everything Passover'.
Each village priest would recite ancient prayers, such as “Miriam’s Song,” echoing the Biblical account of the Exodus and its aftermath.
Yaakov Kirschen, cartoonist and creator of Dry Bones.
This amusing meme has been making its way through the Jewish internet.
Passover cleaning made easy? No, Passover cleaning made JOYFUL.
By Naama Klein
Our poor daughter well remembers her highly-anticipated bat mitzvah trip with us to Israel, that unfortunately fell far short of her expectations.
The people responsible for Mishkan HaNefesh accomplished their goal. Their prayer book is truly p.c. It embraces all.
By dvora
Katowice was the birthplace of both Chovevei Tzion and Agudat Yisrael. Before the Shoah the city had a Jewish population of more than nine thousand.
The baking of a key inside a bread is a non-Jewish custom which has its foundation in Christian, and possibly even earlier, pagan culture.
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:
There is a whole other transcendental level of delight, enchantment, and reverence that applies to collectors of Judaica documents.
Polls show 2/3 of Israeli support sergeant Elor Azaria; interestingly enough, another poll showed 2/3 of Jews do not eat chametz on Pesach. Coincidence?
What does Chad Gadya – a song worthy of Dr. Seuss- about goats, cats, dogs, sticks and butchers – have to do with the leil shimurim, the night of geulah and redemption?
Police found hundreds of Trump Vodka bottles with forged Passover-friendly stickers on them.
What shall we be free of this Pesach? It is the holiday of Freedom, isn’t it?
By Sandy Eller
If you’re anything like me, just thinking about Pesach is enough to send shivers down your spine.
However, if one did not recline during three or four of the cups we would require him to drink them again and recline.
Chef Yochanan Lambiase will guide you through three scrumptious Passover recipes and then unveil THE Passover recipe that you DON'T want to miss!
The Hagada includes many traditional Passover songs in Ladino, and follows the tradition of the Portuguese Amsterdam Hagadot, and was edited and produced by members of the Recife Sephardic Association.
It's never too early to start making the Matzah. Young Chareidi men in Bnei Brak work the mills that grind the flour that will be use to make the matzah for the holiday of Pesach
From North to South, Israelis take advantage of the Pesach holiday vacation to tour and experience our beautiful country.
Birkat Cohanim, the Priestly Blessing, was held on Monday at the Kotel.
American, British and Israeli guests at the Kinar hotel got to hear an amazing concert on Sunday evening by Achim Gat
Thousands of soldiers will remain on duty defending the country while Jews around the world are at the Seder table tonight.
Arab smugglers were foiled by the Hebrew language.
Egypt's supposed iron-fist strategy to control the Sinai is full of bullet holes.
The Temple Institute renacted the entire Pesach sacrifice ceremony.
Matzah baking isn't all just hard work. Sometimes it can be fun too.
A little bit of humor on a serious Pesach subject.
What does it mean, conceptually, to see Shabbat in different worlds?
By Moshe Herman
Yishai is joined by Dominican Friar and dear friend of the Fleishers Erik Ross to talk about the reason behind his current time in Israel and Ross's Pesach experience.
Yet the windows of Pesach are crucial. Through them we can see our bitter exile.
American Jews are increasingly buying more hand-made matzah as well as American-made manufactured matzah. All at the expense of Israeli exports, according to Kosher Today. Israeli exports used to hold approximately 40 percent of the American market but has declined by 11 percent. Sales of hand-made “shmurah matzah” have soared by nearly 15 percent. One […]
Rabbi David Bar-Hayim argues it is time for Ashkenazim to abandon the prohibition against Kitnyot. What do you think?
Israeli ex-Pres. Moshe Katsav has requested a Passover prison leave though he isn't eligible.
The sacred flames of passion between the Jewish people and the Almighty expressed in Shir Ha-Shirim.
No one really believes it will happen this year, and it may not even be “kosher,” but there’s nothing like faith.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited the matza bakery in Kfar Chabad on Tuesday, two weeks before the beginning of Passover. "At home, I have eaten this matza for years.” he said. “Today, for the first time, I am also preparing it myself. I am very excited. I wish the entire Jewish People a Happy Passover." […]