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The Suez Canal has been blocked for days by a giant container ship, causing big problems for the global shipping industry and starting a torrent of social media memes. But what’s Jewish about it?

“The Haggadah is well-known and a very flexible story, with a clear good and evil,” Eliezer Papo says. “You just need to say in a humoristic way who is Moses, and then everyone knows who is Pharaoh.”

"Last year we revised the traditional seder ending, 'Next year in Jerusalem' to say 'Next year around the same table.' Now that wish will come true," said Ellis, 64, editor of a medical magazine.

Ahead of Passover, which begins on March 27 and ends on April 3, Magen David Adom (MDA) released a series of health guidelines.

With whom shall I spend my Passover Seder is not about composing a guest list. It is about life and death.

“We are asking for the deal to come into force earlier, so hoteliers can prepare the reopening of their businesses two weeks before the arrival of tourists from Israel.”

The letter to the Chief of Staff asks to ensure the supply of kosher food for Passover does not justify a ban on the holding of chametz by secular or non-Jews.

COVID-19 case counts in Chicago were rising sharply, and the mayor and governor warned that new restrictions would soon be necessary to curb the disease’s spread.

The Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz described Jewish practices in ways that made sense to me.

We frequently lack a sense of gratitude because we lack a proper sense of perspective.