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 ...

Meant to honor the Jewish people's Exodus from Egypt and their journey to freedom, Passover for many is a time to gather around the seder table and read off the 'Haggadah' a guide to the dinner which ...

In 1866, Joseph A. Joel, a Jewish private in the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, wrote a detailed account of an 1862 Passover Seder. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In April 1862, ...

If you’ve never been to a Passover Seder before, it can be hard to know how to prepare. This ritual meal is the centerpiece of the Jewish holiday of Passover, which marks the Jewish people’s exodus ...

Grab the seder plate and start prepping the matzo, the eight-day celebration of Passover, or Pesach, starts this Monday. The major Jewish holiday happens during the month of Nisan on the Hebrew ...

James Deutsch | Senior Content Coordinator, Smithsonian’s America at 250 Book Project The eight-day Jewish holiday of Passover (Pesach) begins this year after sundown on Wednesday. The first night’s ...

Rabbi Carolan Glatstein holds a ceremonial candle during Saturday’s Passover Seder at Temple B’nai B’rith in Kingston. Behind her, Rabbi Eric Mollo, who led the Seder, provides musical accompaniment.

"The screen is now our doorway. That doorway through which we will welcome our guests and embrace them, even from afar." - Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi on the transition to Zoom seders Credit: ...

Display the seder plate and hide the afikomen – Passover begins this week. Passover, or Pesach, is a major Jewish holiday during the month of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar, usually falling in March or ...

For the last few Passover holidays, Talia Liben Yarmush has heard about Christians holding seders, the elaborate ritual meals that Jews partake in during the first two nights of Passover to celebrate ...

My 98-year-old mother calls my Passover Seder a gantzeh megillah — a big production. She’s right. For me, the Seder is the hardest event of the year to prepare for. Yet it is by far the most ...

An endless Passover seder takes center stage in “One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe,” by writer Dara Horn and illustrator Theo Ellsworth, award-winners who teamed up for a humor-filled, ...