Tag: Pessach
Pesach signifies the joining of the Jewish people
Passover has been described as the “Independence Day of the Jewish People”—the day of our national liberation. It is possible to describe the exodus from Egypt as the moment Jewish peoplehood was founded.
The fact...
Pesach Sheni 2020
The holiday of Pesach (Passover), the most widely observed and celebrated Jewish holiday in America and the world, is approaching fast. This holiday is special for so many reasons, in part by the fact...
A Passover seder in the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto
For the first time since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, some 100 Diaspora Jewish families will celebrate the Jewish festival of redemption in the heart of what was once the ghetto.
Seventy-six years ago German troops...
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews gives thousands of Lone Soldiers gift coupons for...
Ahead of the holiday of Passover, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is sponsoring gift coupons of $139.12 for 8,500 Israeli lone soldiers and soldiers from low-income families, all of which add up...
Nineteen ways you know it’s Passover in Israel
If you’ve never heard an Arab calling out alter zachen (“old things”) in Yiddish, then you’ve never experienced pre-Passover preparations in Jerusalem. It’s part of the clean-up mania that grips the city in the run-up to...
Secularism and Our Heritage: The Origins of Pesakh
THE TRADITIONAL explanation for the holiday of Pesakh is to be found in the twelfth chapter of Exodus: “Tell all the congregations of Israel,” God said to Moses, “that on the tenth day of this...
Jerusalem-based group ships two tons of matzah to Jewish community in Poland
The Jerusalem-based organization Shavei Israel shipped two tons of matzah from Israel this week, consisting of 1,692 boxes of Matzot Aviv, 45 boxes of handmade shmurah (“guarded”) matzah and 90 boxes of specially machine-made special shmurah matzah, announced Shavei Israel...
Pope Francis sends Passover greetings to Rome’s Jewish Community
Pesach, or Passover, is an eight-day Jewish celebration that commemorates how God freed the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt, as recounted in the Old Testament Book of Exodus.
“May the Almighty bless and accompany...
Searching for meaning behind an empty metaphor
For those who worry about the future of American Jewry, Passover brings some comfort. According to a survey published in 2014 by the Pew Research Center, 70 percent of Americans who identify as Jewish attend...
A full 97 percent of Israeli Jews host or join a Seder
According to a Jewish People Policy Institute survey of 3,000 respondents, 97 percent of Israelis Jews say they either host or participate in a Passover Seder, compared to the 2013 Pew Study’s finding of...