Passover

March 25-April 26, 2013

The eight-day festival of Passover is celebrated in the early spring, from the 15th through the 22nd of the Hebrew month of Nissan. It commemorates the emancipation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt. And, by following the rituals of ...

It's that time of year: Kids return home for Passover to drive their mother nuts. Husbands become holy rollers making demands for higher standards in the kitchen in which they never lift a finger. Yet other wives turn their kitchens into high security ...

So they happened to eat matzah because they were in a rush. So what? I thought that Passover is about freedom, not food!

Is it really necessary, more than 3000 years on, to commemorate our ancestors’ freedom from slavery? Can’t we move on to pressing contemporary issues?

Passover is supposedly the festival of freedom from slavery. But it seems ridiculous to celebrate freedom by not eating bread!

The problem with most revolutions is that they are true revolutions -- revolve a full 360 degrees and the same ingrained patterns reassert themselves...

How the Passover time machine allows us to experience the past—and the future

“This is the Bread of Affliction…. Next Year, May We Be Free Men.” Hay Lachma Anya, “This is the bread of affliction” is the opening passage of the Haggadah.Note the Rambam, who in his Mishneh Torah , in Hilchos Chametz U’Matzah 8:1-2 states that “The ...