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Apr 22, 2016, 6:18 PM

Between Kitniyot, Gebrochs and I Don’t Give a Damn

Like a good many Jews worldwide, this evening I will sit down with my family to a festive meal to commemorate our freedom from bondage. This year I will celebrate liberation differently. This year I free myself of obsession...

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

Klari Goldman Bates

Apr 18, 2016, 8:34 PM

Passover Interrupted

Around Passover we see an amazing flood of articles and essays examining the parallels between our modern struggles and the reason for this commemorative event- freedom from captivity. In these weeks leading up to Passover I coincidentally asked what I...

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...

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