NEWTOWN, Conn. — Nothing is the same in this devastated town these days, and this week’s religious holidays will be overshadowed, as is the rest of life, by the deaths of 26 first-graders and staff ...

As Passover approached, those preparing for the holiday began cleaning their homes, discarding leavened products and getting ready for family meals and gatherings, including the Seder night. This is a ...

In the literal story of Passover that we Jews recounted at our Seders (ceremonial meals) last week, the divinely aided Moses led the long-enslaved Israelites out of Egypt to freedom. But the Jewish ...

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Passover, or "Pesach" in Hebrew, is one of the Jewish religion’s "most sacred and widely observed holidays," notes History.com. Passover commemorates the Israelites’ departure from ancient Egypt, ...

The essence of Passover, which begins Friday night, isn’t matzah (unleavened bread) or the four cups of wine at the seder meal. Those merely point to the real message: the importance of our humility ...

Now that Passover is over, we are free. After all, Passover is the holiday where we celebrate not only our emancipation from slavery, but also our freedom to become more than what we were previously.

JTA – At a Shabbat service in Tel Aviv on Friday evening, congregants recited the mourner’s prayer for those killed in Syria’s civil war. Standing before a mural of the Tree of Life, the rabbi of Beit ...

Israel’s various Jewish denominations adapted their Passover prayers to address the tragedy unfolding just across their northern border. TEL AVIV (JTA) – At a Shabbat service in Tel Aviv on Friday ...

TEL AVIV (JTA) – At a Shabbat service in Tel Aviv on Friday evening, congregants recited the mourner’s prayer for those killed in Syria’s civil war. Standing before a mural of the Tree of Life, the ...