By Kosher Today
Snack food manufacturers are increasingly turning to the Orthodox Union for kosher certification to expand their markets during the Passover holiday. Classic Foods announced last week that the company and its branded snack products will be kosher for Passover, under the certification of the OU, which will put Kettle Classics, California Classics, and Baked Classics […]
By Jeremy Rosen
Zechariah was ready to scrap all the sad fast days and turn them into joyful celebrations.
I close my eyes and am transported back to Israel, where I spent the past six weeks.
By Moshe Herman
After a two-week hiatus, Yishai and Malkah return to the airwaves to discuss their Pesach experiences in Jerusalem.
By Shalom Bear
Yitzchak Tshuva expressed regret that the gas flow's arrival into Israel was being presented as having desecrated the Shabbat or the Pesach Holiday.
By Adam Levick
Salsa dancing flash mob and music in Paris.
When all the ribbetting is silenced, we begin to hear an old, familiar tune: the melodious song of our own souls.
By JoeSettler
An article in Mekor Rishon appeared to offer readers the oppurtunity to participate in the Korban Pesach.
The fifth cup is based on a machlokes in the Gemarah.
Connections between the Jewish and American traditions of liberty.
Ever since his first campaign for President, President Obama has been running a Passover Seder, in which he celebrates the holiday of the Israel's freedom, along with staff members and their families. Along with the Seder, President Obama released this official statement: Statement from the President on Passover As we prepare for our fifth […]
No matter how deeply American Zionists yearned for peace their good intentions often went unreciprocated. There was plenty of matzah ball soup and brisket, to be sure. But the dining room was occupied by a makeshift tent, the Passover table was replaced by a pile of sheepskin rugs, and the Lindheim children were dressed in Arab garb.
Activists were arrested for attempting to fulfill the commandment of the Passover sacrifice.
This Pesach, let us take to heart what solidarity means for Am Yisrael and act accordingly.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah share their adventures preparing for Pesach - don't miss it!
An elementary list of reminders regarding the Holiday of Freedom.
In the vernacular of our sages and in our prayers, Pesach is titled, “Z’man chayrusaynu- Time of our freedom.” Although we did attain freedom at the time of our redemption from Egypt, titling the holiday as such doesn’t seem to encapsulate the root of the holiday’s greatness.
By Donyel Meese
I love Pesach. Really, I do. Even with the stress and preparation associated with March Madness (I still have no idea why my father thinks it has anything to do with basketball), I enjoy it. Maybe it's because of my mother's spinach kugel, or the way I still love actively searching for the afikoman.
I believe we need to get back to the basics. Holiness is something we should embrace rather than stray from, and thus we should "look" for more opportunities to become holy rather then stay "safely" away from it. True, with every act of holiness comes restrictions and I can already feel the backache of cleaning the pantry from Chametz. But shall this hardship turn Pesach into the Holiday of misfortune rather than happiness?
In this week’s parshah Hashem instructs Moshe to tell the Bnei Yisrael that each household should take for themselves, on the 10th of Nissan, a lamb or a kid within its first year for the korban pesach.
90% of Israeli Jews celebrate the Pesach Seder.