The Shabbat before Pesach is known as Shabbat HaGadol, the Great Shabbat. For me, this particular Shabbat HaGadol will be a time to recall and celebrate the all too often overlooked great women mentioned in the Passover story. What these women...

As Passover approaches and the world grapples with the largest humanitarian refugee crisis in decades, the five Chabad affiliate centers in St. Louis region are joining Chabad centers in Europe and around the world in announcing that all are welcome at...

Living in a Western culture as we do, most of us mark time according to the Gregorian calendar, a strictly solar calendar in which the new year begins every Jan. 1, that month being the first month in a 12-month series spanning 365 days. There is a slight...

Over the centuries, the Passover seder — and reading from its guidebook, the haggadah — has proven to be among the Jewish people’s most malleable rituals. In the hands of scholars, artists, writers and every kind of Jew in between, the haggadah...

This article first appeared on The Nosher. Passover Stuffed Cabbage Rolls There’s nothing like Passover to remind us where we come from. In many Jewish homes, Passover traditions are carried down from father to son, establishing the family’s customs...

(New York Jewish Week) — Every Passover for the last 75 years, Helena Weinstock Weinrauch, a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor, has worn a vibrant blue hand-knit sweater to the first seder, which she hosts in her Upper West Side apartment building. The...

Click here for a printable version of this recipe Let’s face it, matzo is not the most exciting of foods. That is, until now. Imagine that crispy cracker dipped and covered in gooey caramel and rich chocolate. What do you think? Does chocolate toffee...

“Now Aaron’s sons Nadav and Avihu each took his fire pan, put fire in it, laid incense on it, and offered before God alien fire, which had not been enjoined upon them. And fire issued forth from God and consumed them. Thus, they died at the instance...

Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies This article first appeared on The Nosher. I love it when people taste my pareve desserts and say, “Wow—this is pareve!?” It’s the same rule with Passover dishes and desserts. Which is why I am on a...

This story was originally published on March 17, by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to you each morning. Before the Holocaust, Dnipro, a city in eastern Ukraine on the Dnieper River, had a rich Jewish...

This past Hanukkah I agreed to do this. Those are my Hannukah pajamas, and as a non-pajama-wearing guy, I'm now in love with my matching Hanukkah pajamas. So, I guess you could say, I'm all in on whatever comes next. What's Coming Next Your...

Turbulent times demand that we take action. Parashat Tzav follows Purim by one day, both of which “demand action.” In the Megillah, Haman reveals his diabolical plan to exterminate the Jews of Persia, and Mordechai instructs Esther to immediately...