(My Jewish Learning) - Tisha B’av, the ninth day of the month of Av (which month coincides with July and/or August), is the major day of communal mourning in the Jewish calendar. Although a large number of disasters are said to have befallen the Jews...
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Cut me a double slice of cheesecake — Shavuot is nearly here! Shavuot, which this year is observed from sundown on May 16 through May 18, is both an agricultural festival and a commemoration of the...
The Schon Wirtschafter family's ongoing "tradition", as long as we live in a pandemic.
The 1st Seder on the Zoom: https://youtu.be/gS9iiGJxbWo
The response, Far from the Home I Zoom: https://youtu.be/YMWDOcg7EE4
Starring and created by:
Marnina,...
BY BILL MOTCHAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published March 25, 2021
A few years ago, Bob Hoffman was getting new siding on his house. He was sitting on his living room couch just under where a Hoffman family heirloom – an antique seder plate – was hanging on the wall. Workers outside were banging on the exterior wall...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published March 23, 2021
Around this time last year, Daniel Movitz was preparing to celebrate Passover at his apartment in Clayton, using a seder kit he received from Chabad, the Jewish outreach organization. Like Jews around the world, Movitz was alone physically but held a...
BY MARGI LENGA KAHN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published March 19, 2021
The Passover holiday has always been awe-inspiring for me. To think that millions of Jews across the world gather with family and, in other years, with friends on the same night(s) around a seder plate with the same symbols to recount the same story of...
Elyse Picker, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 8, 2021
Growing up, our family almost always hosted a Passover seder using the Maxwell House haggadah. I found it funny that a coffee company published a haggadah, but it wouldn’t have been a seder without its odd phrases woven throughout the story.I always...
Imagine sitting around a large dinner table with your family, singing and celebrating the great history and traditions of your culture. The flowing music fills your ears, the decadent scents fill your nose and the comfort of family fills your heart. This...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published April 14, 2020
One might think that Passover seders, the meals during which we eat matzah, the bread of affliction, and other special foods, might have been dry occasions this year because of people’s inability to gather in large numbers due to social distancing guidelines.And...
BOSTON (JTA) — Miriam the Prophetess, Elijah the Prophet and the Four Questions take center stage among this spring’s crop of new Passover books for kids penned by some of today’s best writers.The sparkling assortment includes stories by Jane Yolen,...
By Ellie S. Grossman, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 2, 2020
Passover is a cherished Jewish holiday that celebrates our journey from the bitterness of slavery to the sweetness of freedom, a paradoxical theme amidst the plague of COVID-19. During this global pandemic, we are socially distant and socially isolated,...
When we asked readers to send us unique and/or interesting stories about their favorite seder plate, we weren’t sure what we would get back. But luckily, a few had some entertaining tales to tell.From Gay Goldenberg, 72, of Town & Country, a B’nai Amoona...
