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Modern items to put on the seder plate
19 Apr
Highlights, Latest

Seven Modern Additions to the Seder Plate

  • April 24, 2024
  • By author-avatar Tyler Griff
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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.

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Stamps in values of 50, 60, 160, 300 issued in Israel in 1958-9 featuring the seven species
23 Jan
Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Jewish World, Latest

Tu B’Shvat: A Birthday for the Trees

  • January 24, 2024
  • By author-avatar Molly Foster
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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...

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The Superhero Haggadah
24 Mar
Culture, Jewish World, Latest

The Superhero Haggadah: When Monoculture Meets Mono-Judaism

  • January 7, 2022
  • By author-avatar Sam Gelman
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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...

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23 Mar
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My Mother’s Three Seders

  • April 5, 2021
  • By author-avatar Bernice Lerner
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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...

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rabbis seder
22 Mar
2018 March/April, Ask the Rabbis, Religion

Ask The Rabbis | Should Jews at the Seder Ask God to Smite Our Enemies?

  • August 14, 2019
  • By author-avatar Moment
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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...

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13 Apr
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Theodore Bikel’s Las Vegas Passover

  • March 15, 2022
  • By author-avatar Theodore Bikel
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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.

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10 Apr
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Alan Alda’s Passover

  • March 15, 2022
  • By author-avatar Ellen Wexler
  • 2 comments

“Passover’s like Thanksgiving. People sit around and eat and drink and tell stories, are glad to be alive.”

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10 Apr
Jewish World, Latest

The Passion of Passover

  • March 25, 2023
  • By author-avatar Daniel Ross Goodman
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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.

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10 Apr
Jewish World, Latest

Einstein’s Hidden Spirituality

  • April 25, 2017
  • By author-avatar Edward Van Gieson
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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?

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03 Mar
2015 March-April

From the Editor // March/April 2015

  • May 26, 2017
  • By author-avatar Nadine Epstein
  • 3 comments

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?

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13 Apr
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Passover Remixed

  • March 16, 2022
  • By author-avatar elisniv
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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...

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06 Jan
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For Refugees, a Modern Exodus

  • May 8, 2012
  • By author-avatar elisniv
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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...

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