Posts Tagged: passover
Jewish Communities to Host First Matzah-Baking Events in Gulf Countries
An umbrella group for Jewish communities in the Arabian Peninsula is organizing several matzah-baking events next week, in a first-of-its-kind preparation for the upcoming Jewish...
My First Seder: Finding Redemption and Roots Amid the Pandemic
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, I found myself in Jerusalem sitting at my first Passover seder. Although this has been a period of unprecedented...
Aston Villa FC Condemns Flood of ‘Intolerant’ Reactions to Facebook Passover Greeting
Aston Villa FC spoke out against a torrent of antisemitic and anti-Israel comments posted on social media following a Passover greeting posted by the soccer...
Romanian Police Investigate Death Threats Against Prominent Jewish Actor
Romanian police were investigating on Sunday death threats made against award-winning film and theatre star Maia Morgenstern and her children at the start of Passover...
What Kind of Freedom Do We Celebrate on Passover?
The New York Review of Books recently devoted a lot of space to a review of “The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of...
Passover and the US-Israel Bond
Here's a quick Passover recap: According to Heinrich Heine, the 19th century German poet, “Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.” Professor Yehudah...
Why the Seder and Exodus Should Make Us Optimistic
Countless studies have explored the usefulness of optimism as a psychological phenomenon, and all of them have demonstrated that optimists have a higher quality of...
In Every Generation: How the Pesach Haggadah Sheds Light on Israel’s Security Situation
The ancient words that we will soon recite during the Passover seder can seem archaic or impertinent to our modern-day circumstances. How can the Haggadah,...
Passover and Preserving History in 2021
Cecil B. Demille’s famous film "The Ten Commandments" was a massive box office hit. Decades before, in 1923, Demille made a silent film of the...
The Seder and the Stories We Retell
Imagine bringing a guest to your family’s seder -- a newcomer to the Pesach traditions. “We will tell the story of our journey from slavery...
This Passover, Let Us Release Our Anger
Operation Warp Speed was an unreported success of the Trump administration, in the unprecedented marshaling of public and private resources to develop multiple COVID-19 vaccines...
Israel Goes Into Near-Total Coronavirus Lockdown for End of Passover Holiday
Israel was set for a near-total lockdown for the end of Passover due to the coronavirus crisis, with a heavy police presence deployed to enforce...
Passover 2020: Reflecting on a Brighter Future
JNS.org - Although the coronavirus pandemic has been devastating for families who have lost loved ones and is challenging us all in many ways, perhaps...
The Challenges, and Beauty, of This Year’s Passover
JNS.org - In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a complete lockdown for Passover seder night, threatening arrest or a fine to anyone found on...
