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"MATZA MIA: Six13's Passover parody is the matzah ball of musical mashups!

“MATZA MIA: Six13’s Passover parody is the matzah ball of musical mashups!

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 17, 2024

Just in time for the first night of Passover, Jewish a cappella group Six13 dropped their latest musical parody video - MATZA MIA! If the title doesn't jump out at you, it's a not to the legendary Swedish quartet ABBA, who rocked the world of disco...

This week’s Torah portion is infamous for being gross and unrelatable

This week’s Torah portion is infamous for being gross and unrelatable

Rabbi Amy FederPublished April 11, 2024

This week’s Torah portion is infamous for being perhaps the grossest and least relatable portion in the entire Torah. And it’s one of my very favorites. Tazria focuses on a skin disease known as tzara’at, which is commonly translated as leprosy...

A Jewish mother and an illustrator have teamed up to create an unofficial Taylor Swift haggadah for Passover this year. (Courtesy Shelley Atlas Serber, Wikimedia. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg)

The exodus story you know ‘All Too Well’ gets retold in new Taylor Swift haggadah

Jackie Hajdenberg, JTAPublished April 10, 2024

(JTA) — Taylor Swift has (unofficially) entered her Exodus era. Swifties can now express their love for the pop icon while celebrating Passover, thanks to the “Unofficial Taylor Swift Haggadah,” written by author Na’ama Ben-David. Ben-David...

Chabad invites St. Louis Jews to multiple community Passover seders

Chabad invites St. Louis Jews to multiple community Passover seders

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 9, 2024

As Passover draws near this year, Chabad is gearing up to welcome hundreds of attendees to public Passover seders on the first two nights of the holiday— on April 22 and 23. The community seders take participants through the story...

Cacio e Pepe Matzah Brei Recipe

Cacio e Pepe Matzah Brei Recipe

By Stephanie Ganz, The NosherPublished April 5, 2024

This recipe was first published on The Nosher.  Cacio e pepe translates to cheese and pepper, and the classic Roman pasta dish includes little more than those eponymous ingredients. In that recipe, spaghetti and salted pasta water combine with a salty...

Gail Simmons’ Matzah Ball soup recipe

Gail Simmons’ Matzah Ball soup recipe

By Gail Simmons, The NosherPublished April 5, 2024

This recipe was first published on The Nosher. Though my Grandma Snazzy, my mother’s mother, seemed to barely eat a thing (to this day, I am convinced she subsisted on toast and coffee), she was a wonderful Jewish home cook. One of her specialties...

Why Sauce Gribiche should be your secret weapon for Passover

Why Sauce Gribiche should be your secret weapon for Passover

By Stephanie Ganz, The NosherPublished April 5, 2024

This recipe was first published on The Nosher. Sauce gribiche is a cold egg sauce that originated in 19th-century France when the so-called “mother sauces” (or grandes sauces) were being defined by chefs Marie Antoine Carême and August Escoffier....

Among the new haggadahs to be published in 2024 are several for families and one for Star Wars fans. (Collage by Mollie Suss)

Inside 10 new haggadahs for 2024: America and Israel take their places at the seder table

Philissa Cramer, Penny Schwartz, JTAPublished April 5, 2024

(JTA) — The creators of new Passover haggadahs focused on Zionism and American patriotism were working on their projects long before Oct. 7, when Hamas attacked Israel and triggered a war in Gaza and a broad reckoning over both Israel and the place...

5 great Passover books for kids from the PJ Library

5 great Passover books for kids from the PJ Library

JENNIFER BAER, Director, PJ Library & Family Engagement at the Jewish Federation of St. LouisPublished April 3, 2024

I have a terrible memory.  Actually, I remember obscure details really well but forget passwords, early pick up times, birthday parties and pretty much anything with numbers.  I should seriously pause for a moment each day and say a prayer of gratitude...

Dietary laws are another way to bring holiness to everyday life

By Rabbi Josef DavidsonPublished April 3, 2024

For the last two years in which I was enrolled in rabbinical school, I served a small congregation every month located in the heart of Cajun Country: Lafayette, La.  Located as it was near the Gulf of Mexico, the residents of Lafayette ate a lot...

How to win Passover and help the St. Louis Jewish Light at the same time

How to win Passover and help the St. Louis Jewish Light at the same time

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 2, 2024

Remember the cozy tradition of matzah pajamas? Well, they're back and better than ever. Rabbi Yael Buechler introduced her beloved matzah pajamas to our readers in 2021, after she was inspired by her youngest son's adorable choice of "matzah...

New JGrads leadership prepares to host their first seder

New JGrads leadership prepares to host their first seder

Published April 2, 2024

JGrads St. Louis, Chabad on Campus's effort to recognize the needs of the hundreds of Jewish graduate students and their peers in St. Louis, is gearing up for its Passover seder. "The seder is targeted at Jewish graduate students and their peers,"...

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