Every year at the start of Spring Jewish households across the world mark the holiday of Pesach, we spend hours recounting our ancestors liberation from Egypt, freedom from slavery and essentially the ...

While many Christians know of Passover through the story of Moses and the blood of the lamb, the story from the Jewish perspective carries a different meaning. In Jewish tradition, the story of ...

“Pesach is the oldest and most transformative story of hope ever told. It is a story of the defeat of probability by the force of possibility. It defines what it is to be a Jew: a living symbol of ...

It’s a Jewish holiday that almost nobody remembers … I usually am reminded about it in shul at morning minyan, when I am pleasantly surprised that we don’t say tachanun that day! I’m speaking of ...

If you want to be a religious Jew today, you have to have money — a lot of it. There’s no way around it, and it’s especially obvious at this time of year. Perhaps it was different way back when, but ...

Passover is nearly here and the Jewish holiday plays an important role in Judaism, according to myjewishlearning.com. Only unleavened bread or "matzo" must may be eaten during the celebratory Jewish ...

Your question has multiple components, so let’s discuss each of them. Is it in the spirit of the holiday? An important element that you seem to be questioning is whether the excesses you described are ...

When Erev Pesach falls on Shabbat, one should destroy all terumah that is chametz on Friday except for two meals’ worth for consumption on Shabbat (Pesachim 13a). Since the Gemara states that one ...

“Thank God I don’t need to get a goyte this year,” I shout from the living room, as I’m adding, for the umpteenth time, another grocery item to the shared google doc titled “Orlando Grocery List” — ...

The weeks leading up to the holiday of Pesach can be filled with endless cleaning, causing stress, anger, even bouts of depression and no patience with the kids. Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, Head of Ateret ...