(RNS) — This year's spatially distant, socially malleable holiday observance is nothing if not an attempt to stretch the bounds of tradition. Let's add something meaningfully elastic. (RNS) — As Jews ...

Passover, also known as Pesach in Hebrew, is a sacred holiday for Jewish people. For seven to eight days, the Exodus from Egypt is commemorated through various customs and rituals, from eating meals ...

Unlike most other Jewish holidays, Passover, which this year begins on Monday evening, is very home centered. The Seder, the most important aspect of the celebration, takes place at home, where all ...

Passover is a holiday celebrated every spring by Jewish people all over the world that tells the story of the Jews' Exodus from slavery in Egypt in Biblical times. On the first two nights of the ...

For most Jews gathering next week for Passover, the items on the seder table are as familiar as the story of the Exodus. Which is too bad, given the richness of their history and the multitude of ...

(JTA) — Olives. Tomatoes. Oranges. Artichokes. Dates. Cotton balls. And, now, sunflowers. This list might seem like a setup for a logic puzzle or a grocery run. But it is, instead, a (non-exhaustive) ...

Over the past few decades, new seder plate foods have joined some Passover tables. Next to the maror, charoset, karpas and other symbolic snacks sit oranges, artichokes, olives, chocolate and others.

There’s hardly room for the meal on the table at a seder, the ritual dinner held the first two nights of the Jewish holiday of Passover. There are candles, several bottles of wine, baskets of matzah ...

Olives. Tomatoes. Oranges. Artichokes. Dates. Cotton balls. And, now, sunflowers. This list might seem like a setup for a logic puzzle or a grocery run. But it is, instead, a (non-exhaustive) list ...

“This Passover, we’re adding something new to our Seder plates: a single Lego block,” Temple Israel wrote in a post on Facebook. At Temple Israel in suburban Detroit, where congregants are still ...