By Rabbi Carnie Shalom Rose
• Published April 11, 2019
Without question, the night of the Passover seder is among the most powerful experiences of the entire year. We daven, sing, eat, discuss, debate and methodically make our way through the Haggadah and a long night filled with rituals, customs and practices...
By Emily Aronoff Teck, Kveller via JTA
• Published April 11, 2019
No joke: I love hosting the Passover seder.I love feeding people — I’m both Jewish and Southern, so this is deeply engrained in me. I love educating people, and I love being Jewish, so the seder is a perfect opportunity to gather the ones I love for...
By Cathleen Kronemer, NSCA-CPT, Certified Health Coach
• Published April 11, 2019
We have been hosting first-night seder on Pesach for more years than I can even recall. Sometimes we have a crowd around our limited-seating dining room table, and other years have been more intimate. However, it never fails that something will always...
OCEANSIDE, N.Y. (JTA) — Nine years ago, Ellen Grossman wanted to do something special for her birthday.“I said we’ve had enough parties and enough pocketbooks and enough jewelry — do something different,” the Great Neck resident recalled.So...
BOSTON (JTA) — Four questions. Four cups of wine. Four types of children. At Passover, the number four figures prominently in the rituals of the seder, the ceremonial holiday meal that can be mesmerizing and mystifying.Four new delightful and brightly...
(JTA) — Although Jews have celebrated Passover by reading from the Haggadah in one form or another for 2,000 years, Jewish organizations and publishers strive each year to connect the holiday to modern times with fresh Haggadahs as well as supplements.If...
By Rebecca Rosenthal, Kveller via JTA
• Published April 6, 2017
If your Passover seder is anything like mine, it can resemble the world’s most difficult classroom: different ages, ranging from 3 to 93, and varying levels of interest. Some want to read and discuss every word in the Haggadah, some just want to get...
The writer, second from right, and her family at Game 4 of the World Series, Oct. 29, 2016. (Courtesy of Molly Tolsky)NEW YORK (JTA) — Since leaving my beloved Chicago for New York nearly seven years ago, there have been a few consistent reasons for...
What’s the best way to lead a Passover seder? (Lior Zaltzman)LOS ANGELES (JTA) — What kind of leadership style works best for a seder? During a period when we are experiencing a shake-up in national leadership, you may want to re-examine the relationship...
(JTA) — From the wizardry of Harry Potter that echoes with Passover’s themes to a cartoon frog who wisecracks his way through the seder, this year’s new crop of Passover books for kids offers something for all ages and interests.The selection of...
Social justice-themed Haggadahs can help make the Passover story more relevant to today’s world. (Top left, clockwise: Joe Raedle/Getty Images; Charles McQuillan/Getty Images; Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images; Mark Renders/Getty Images)NEW YORK (JTA) —...
Passover is about relationships. Over and over, the Torah expresses the Passover Seder in intergenerationally related terms, such as: “When your child shall ask you, ‘What is this service’ ” and, “And you shall say to them, ‘With a strong...
