Every year at the start of Spring Jewish households across the world mark the holiday of Pesach, we spend hours recounting our ancestors liberation from Egypt, freedom from slavery and essentially the ...

While many Christians know of Passover through the story of Moses and the blood of the lamb, the story from the Jewish perspective carries a different meaning. In Jewish tradition, the story of ...

It’s a Jewish holiday that almost nobody remembers … I usually am reminded about it in shul at morning minyan, when I am pleasantly surprised that we don’t say tachanun that day! I’m speaking of ...

The arrival of spring marks the approach of a couple of important religious holidays. And this year, they're coming later than most people who celebrate are used to. If you didn't know Easter's date ...

“Pesach is the oldest and most transformative story of hope ever told. It is a story of the defeat of probability by the force of possibility. It defines what it is to be a Jew: a living symbol of ...

Dvar Torah written by:Tsvi Levy, presented by:Rav Moshe Davis. Am Yisrael was given the mitzva of Pesacḥ while still in Egypt, prior to the plague of the first born, as the posuk (verse) states: ...

If you want to be a religious Jew today, you have to have money — a lot of it. There’s no way around it, and it’s especially obvious at this time of year. Perhaps it was different way back when, but ...

When Erev Pesach falls on Shabbat, one should destroy all terumah that is chametz on Friday except for two meals’ worth for consumption on Shabbat (Pesachim 13a). Since the Gemara states that one ...

like Dubai in United Arab Emirates? The implication of the question is that there might be some significant reason for some pause in spending Pesach in Dubai, either because it is an Arab country or ...

It’s that time of year — the time I expect the smell of Murphy’s Oil Soap and chlorine to waft through the windows of every home. It’s my favorite time of the year, too, from my earliest memories. No, ...