On Monday evening, March 9, Jews around the world will begin to celebrate the festival of Purim. This holiday, which commemorates the events described in the biblical book of Esther, is known mostly ...

The Modern Orthodox community’s embrace of Pesach getaways offers tradeoffs — and lessons to learn, writes a New York City rabbi who is spending the holiday in Arizona. PHOENIX, Arizona — On one ...

The Passover Exodus plays a major role in both Christianity and Judaism. Today both faith traditions commemorate Passover based on different historic events. Easter this year occurs on April 16, and ...

Three millennia ago, the Jews stood at the Jordan River’s banks, about to return to the Promised Land. They must have been as scared and excited as we were the night before leaving for college. They ...

Tradition teaches that on Passover, all Jews must embody the experience of Exodus, feeling as if we ourselves have gone through it. For the Karaite Jews from Egypt — a community that rejected rabbinic ...

Based on an essay by Rabbi Pinchas Stolper (1931–2022) who credits Rabbi Mordechai Schechter (1995–2023), both are disciples of the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin Rav Yitzchok Hutner (1906 ...

After two years of virtual Passovers, NuRoots is going back to basics for this year’s Collective Escape. From April 22 to 24, about 75 “wanderers,” ages 21 through 30-something, will descend upon ...

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The story of Passover is traditionally told over the Passover Seder and is sprinkled with lots of singing, reclining, wine drinking and gefilte fish-eating. The tale depicts the Jewish people's ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Beginning Wednesday evening (April 8), Jews celebrate Passover, the annual retelling of their liberation story. We talked about the Exodus with philosopher Michael Walzer of the ...

Jewish families crossing through the Iranian mountains and Pakistani deserts on the way to finding freedom. Through the camera of my iPhone I see people’s feet. They jump over five wooden crates ...