Everyone has his or her own way of celebrating Passover, from silly seder customs (10 Plagues finger puppets, anyone?) to enjoying the same meal year after year, to, yes, commemorating the festival alongside beloved TV characters.The eight-day remembrance...
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...
By Deborah Fineblum Raub, JointMedia News Service
• Published March 28, 2012
When you have youngsters from interfaith families at your seder table, it can’t help but up the Passover ante. Maybe you are the kids’ auntie, or their grandparent, cousin, neighbor or friend. And maybe, just maybe you’re their parent. Whatever...
By Dr. Erica Brown, JointMedia News Service
• Published March 28, 2012
Three times in the book of Exodus and once in Deuteronomy, we are commanded to tell the master narrative of our people to our children. Sometimes it is because children ask, and we have a responsibility as bearers of a legacy to answer. Sometimes children...
By the Jewish Light Staff
• Published March 28, 2012
Too often a good idea leads to less desirable—though unintended—consequences. So it was with the Jewish Light’s Matzah Taste Test. Wouldn’t it be helpful to buy a bunch of different brands of matzah and recruit staff members to judge the brands...
By Penny Schwartz · March 27, 2012 1 out of 1 Other Media Zoe Scheffy at her home with her knit seder table runners, her first design for a knit seder plate. (Penny Schwartz) PASSOVER FEATURE BOSTON (JTA) -- To prepare for their first Passover...
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Passover celebrates the exodus of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt, their wandering in the desert for 40 years, and their ultimate deliverance to the Promised Land. But a contemporary observer might be forgiven for imagining...
SAN FRANCISCO — Passover, which commemorates the Jewish people's liberation from slavery, has a political message at its heart. So it's not surprising that the seder - especially the seder plate -- has been pressed into the service of all kinds of freedoms....
By Gail Appleson, Special to the Light
• Published April 13, 2011
Can you remember exactly when you graduated from grape juice to super sweet Manischewitz or Mogen David Concord wine? I have to admit that I don't recall the precise holiday or Shabbat, but I do certainly remember a childhood Passover when my older brother...
By Sue Fishkoff, JTA SAN FRANCISCO
• Published April 13, 2011
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...
"Flourless Chocolate Cake with Polka Dot Ganache" took top prize honors Sunday in the 2nd Annual St. Louis Jewish Light Cooking Contest, sponsored by the Light and the JCC.
This second installment of the cooking contest featured Passover desserts....
By Edmon J. Rodman, JTA
• Published March 30, 2011
LOS ANGELES - In every generation, the Haggadah tells us, the wise, the simple, the non-askers and even the baddies are obligated to see themselves as though they themselves actually had come out from Egypt. Unfortunately, the closest many of us come...
