Pesach

Why Mimouna matters - opinion

Mimouna is a uniquely Moroccan Jewish celebration that spread more widely across Sephardi communities in the 20th century.

 Mimouna table at the Arviv family in Ashkelon, Israel.
RYAN GOSLING in Project Hail Mary.

Movie theaters reopening across the country, just in time for Passover vacation - review

Sergeant Moshe Yitzhak Hacohen, 22.

L’chaim at a lone soldier's grave - opinion

Shabbat candles

Passover candle lighting times for Israel and US


Despite danger and disruption, Ukrainian Jews prepare to celebrate Passover in public seders

Thousands of Ukrainian Jews are preparing to celebrate the Jewish holiday in dozens of group seders – both in Ukraine and outside it.

 Svetlana Niselevitch receives a haggadah for Passover from a JDC staff member outside her home in Odessa, Ukraine, April 8, 2022.

In Brooklyn, some rabbis ask followers to turn down free food from ‘Zionists’

Williamsburg’s Satmar Hasidic community is warning followers not to accept food from the Met Council or the Zionist charity United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg.

 Volunteers helped distribute food at a Satmar distribution center in Williamsburg, April 10, 2022.

'The four sons corresponding to four generations' - Opinion

“Tell your sons and daughters”- A comparison of the four sons in the Passover Haggadah to four generations of Israelis in the Diaspora. 

 MEN AND WOMEN participate in a Passover Seder. Men and women came to study with Nechama Leibowitz and waited to hear her words.

Gluten-free year-round: Celebrating Passover with Celiac disease

'The difference between Passover and the rest of the year is that I’m able to go into any supermarket and buy anything instead of going to a specialist store,' a person with Celiac's disease said.

 Osem gluten free pasta, which is not sold widely throughout the rest of the year, seen in the Passover section of a Jerusalem supermarket.

Healthy eating on Passover - it's possible

Healthy eating tips for Passover that can help you maintain your health and even weight.

Shakshuka and Starkist Tuna

KKL-JNF approves West Bank land purchases, pending final authorization

In February, the KKL-JNF’s board of directors voted to approve in principle KKL-JNF land purchases in the West Bank for the first time in the organization’s history.

The Higher Planning Council is set to advance West Bank settler housing projects Sunday, including in Itamar. Picture taken June 15, 2020.

Ex-NBA star and Orthodox convert Amar'e Stoudemire celebrates Passover

“I mean, there’s so many d’var Torahs you can do for Pesach, bro,” he said. He recited the story of Moses and said how he could never see himself as being capable of doing what the Biblical hero did.

IT WILL be a strange sight for Jerusalem hoops fans to see former player Amar’e Stoudemire donning the yellow-and-blue jersey of arch-rival Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Going out for Seder? Police give tips on avoiding break-ins over Passover

The list was compiled in part due to the likelihood that many people will be away from their house during the holiday, something which criminals can take advantage of.

Police are seen checking drivers at a coronavirus checkpoint near Jerusalem's Gan Sacher amid lockdown, on January 12, 2021.

10 of the best Jewish tweets about the pre-Passover Suez Canal blockage

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?

A handout picture released by the Suez Canal Authority on March 24, 2021 shows a part of the Taiwan-owned MV Ever Given (Evergreen), a 400-meter-long and 59-meter wide vessel, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the waterway of Egypt's Suez Canal.

The other Sarajevo Haggadah — a Ladino communist musical Passover parody

“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.”

A group of Jewish civilians and partisans in Croatia, 1942.