Seven Modern Additions to the Seder Plate
In recent years, a number of new Passover items have been adopted—or at least proposed—to include in and around the traditional seder plate.
Tu B’Shvat: A Birthday for the Trees
A new Gregorian year is upon us, and it’s a new year for the trees as well. Sometimes called “Jewish Earth Day,” the celebration of...
The Superhero Haggadah: When Monoculture Meets Mono-Judaism
We live in a disjointed media market. Gone is the monocultural dominance and the sense of camaraderie you and your coworkers would feel as you...
My Mother’s Three Seders
Though Rachel never felt it, her family was poor. She liked visiting friends who came from smaller families, had more room in their homes, and...
Ask The Rabbis | Should Jews at the Seder Ask God to Smite Our Enemies?
Pour out Your wrath upon the nations that know You not, and upon the families that call not on Your name; for they have devoured...
Theodore Bikel’s Las Vegas Passover
We were in Las Vegas (and had been for five months!), where I was appearing twice nightly at Caesar’s Palace in Fiddler. The only possible time for our seder was at 2 a.m.
Alan Alda’s Passover
“Passover’s like Thanksgiving. People sit around and eat and drink and tell stories, are glad to be alive.”
The Passion of Passover
At the Passover seder, Jews across the world retell the greatest love story of all time: the story of what happened when God fell in love.
Einstein’s Hidden Spirituality
Biographers typically describe Einstein as a man who disdained Jewish rituals. But what if we have been given an incomplete picture of Einstein’s spirituality?
From the Editor // March/April 2015
The ground is lurching beneath the feet of European Jews, with anti-Semitism rising up around them. We American Jews are rightly concerned at this alarming turn of events. We fear the spread of this new, especially virulent form of anti-Semitism to our own shores. We feel disgusted but helpless. What can we do?
Passover Remixed
by Amanda Walgrove
For thousands of years, the Passover Seder has evoked universal themes of personal liberation and religious freedom. Each generation tells and retells the...
For Refugees, a Modern Exodus
By Adam Chandler
Before escaping to Israel in 2003, Ephraim lived in a camp with 15,000 other Eritreans. Like a growing number of refugees...