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Fivel Yedidya Glasser

Apr 21, 2016, 2:09 AM

Simone Zimmerman, please come to my seder

He disagrees with the leftwing activist but he'd be happy for a chance to convince her they're on the same side

Rodger Kamenetz

Apr 20, 2016, 9:55 PM

The big dream of Passover

That time a young Tibetan wanted to understand why the same story is told over and over and over again

Yossi Klein Halevi

Apr 19, 2016, 12:33 PM

The war against Passover

Growing efforts to define Judaism as a religion with no historic claims defy the seder's core message of peoplehood

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Apr 13, 2016, 1:46 PM

This year, don't read the Haggadah!

"We Jews are called 'the people of the book.' But we are not; we are the people of the ear."

Apr 9, 2016, 10:21 PM

The banana on the seder plate

Our Seder reflects family traditions and the priorities of our present day Jewish experience, this year mine will include a Banana. As a child growing up in a progressively Jewish household our Seder was a tzimis of Jewish activism. My...

Donniel Hartman

Apr 2, 2015, 2:38 PM

Pesach: A tale of two stories

Whether Jews are a chosen elite or just the same as the downtrodden depends on how you tell the tale

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Mar 27, 2015, 7:27 PM

Mastering the art of pre-Passover cooking

Now's your chance to use up that chocolate instant pudding mix that's been sitting in the back of the cabinet

Aryeh Ben David

Mar 18, 2015, 5:45 PM

This is the night for love

If I invited you to do a Jewish program for Passover -- and asked you to please bring a mattress, a bottle of wine, and some kind of aphrodisiac -- you would probably look at me askance. Maybe even consider...

Apr 20, 2014, 1:21 PM

Sing it sisters!

The biblical Song of the Sea shows that true freedom comes when we can raise our voices in rightful raucous [VIDEO]

Mar 24, 2013, 3:53 PM

A soldier’s seder on the Lebanese border

We parked the jeeps at one of our usual spots, near Israel's northern border with Lebanon, and took out our food. While we had eaten many of our meals along our patrol route in the weeks before, that night...

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