The institution of charoset, as with much of the Seder not mandated by the Bible, derived from classical Greco-Roman practices two thousand years ago,” author Gil Marks writes in the Encyclopedia of ...

While the celebrations again occur amid anxieties related to the unresolved Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and the specter of widespread antisemitism, the holiday remains festive, with large Seders filled ...

What is the story of Passover, What are its various traditions and rules, And just what dates will it be taking place this year? Here is everything you need to know.

Take the Sukkah memorial in Hostages Square for example where yellow chairs sit alongside other chairs around the an extended ...

All we needed was a non-Jewish buyer. That should have been easy. The reason we’d moved to Philadelphia and joined this synagogue two years earlier was for my job as a professor of biblical ...

Passover, which begins at sundown Saturday, commemorates the Israelites’ liberation from slavery in ancient Egypt, including their 40-year journey through the desert. It is celebrated with a ...

Credit: Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica Archaeologists working at Ostia Antica, an ancient Roman port city, have discovered the oldest Jewish ritual bath outside of the Middle East ...

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