I admit that I have a love affair with matzah.  From the simplicity of matzah spread thick with whipped cream cheese, to the burnt edges of the hand-made shmura matzah.   Yet, there is more to matzah than its mouth feel.  Indeed matzah has personality,...

By design, the Passover seder is perhaps the paradigmatic family holiday. Relatives, distant and close, friends, even strangers crowd around the dinner table to laugh, eat and of course to read the Haggadah, telling the story of the Israelites Exodus...

In conjunction with a national mobilization focused on poverty issues, the Jewish Community Relations Council and St. Louis University are organizing an interfaith Hunger Awareness Seder to take place at 5 p.m. Monday, April 2 on the SLU campus.  The...

In many ways, paper may not seem the most enduring medium but it often represents the strength of traditions that were made to last. Such it is with the Haggadah, an aspect of Passover that, thanks to Israeli artist Archie Granot, has now been rendered...

As Passover approaches, thoughts of singer-songwriter Debbie Friedman flood my mind.Of course, I will always remember Friedman, who died early this year, for her monumental healing prayer "Mi Shebeirach" and other songs that touched a multitude of people...

Nearing its 80th birthday, perhaps it was time the most printed Passover Haggadah in history had a major facelift. The Maxwell House Passover Haggadah, which has had more than 50 million copies published, hits the shelves -- and supermarkets -- this spring...