Passover

Each year, 100-year-old Ruth Phillips travels to Melbourne from her Northern NSW home in Gleniffer to celebrate the Jewish festival Passover.

Jewish people around the world are preparing to mark the week-long holiday of Passover from Monday. This year, this important event carries even greater ...

The first major holiday since the devastating Oct. 7 massacre will be marked by some with an empty seat at the seder table in honor of the many hostages ...

Among the themes of Passover is freedom from captivity. For many Jews this year, the holiday brings up the pain of knowledge that hostages are still captive ...

Passover reflects on Israel's plight in the Hamas conflict. Amidst despair, unity emerges, echoing ancient struggles for freedom.

Passover is a celebration of freedom for Jews, commemorating the exodus of ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt. However, this year the Israel-Hamas war ...

I have been thinking about Passover, which starts the evening of Monday, April 22, 2024. In the United States, Passover is observed for eight days, ...

Passover begins Monday night in Brevard but why is it much later than usual? And why is this Passover different than before?

Take notice of the enemies who wish to destroy us, and take heart that we will always be strong enough to win. This moment, now, is our generation's turn to ...

On behalf of the Coalition, my warmest wishes to Australia's resilient Jewish community as you celebrate Passover. A festival which acknowledges the ...

“Passover is a holiday when people renew the accessories in their homes, such as carpets or new dishes,” says Hadas Elimelech from Metula, who is staying at ...

At Sinai Temple in west Los Angeles, Rabbi Erez Sherman unlocks the sanctuary doors and walks toward row after row of seats marked off with blue ribbon.

The Amalekites' historical attack following the Exodus parallels modern efforts to undermine an embattled IDF battalion through internal Israeli division.

My family's kibbutz was devastated and pillaged. After 200 dark days, we need to expand our compassion, says film-maker Sharone Lifschitz.

Jewish people mark on Monday the start of Passover, a celebration of freedom, and around many holiday tables in Israel chairs will stand empty for hostages ...

The cohesion that Passover has provided Jews for millennia is currently strained in ways I cannot remember and cannot fathom, writes Daniel Osborn.

Jews will celebrate Passover in the shadow of Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel – and amid the largest surge in antisemitism ever in the United States.

Israeli Jews prepare to celebrate Passover — the holiday which marks freedom from bondage — with more than 100 captives still in Gaza.

I have long aspired to uphold Passover's teaching to have compassion for the stranger. But the noise surrounding Israel's war with Hamas has drowned out my ...

I want to send warm wishes to the entire Jewish community over Pesach. Families across the country – including my own - will come together this week for a Seder ...

Opinion. The first Seder since Oct. 7 arrives in a hostile, beautiful world. By Benjamin Resnick.

Celebrating freedom of ancient Israelites a struggle with 133 hostages in Gaza and over 100000 displaced, as some look to mark trauma of past months within ...

Traditional Jewish holiday will be muted as Gaza war and fate of captives held by Hamas hang over the country.

Here's a respectful, historically informed offering to balance out the exceptionalism being offered us in too many quarters as we approach an ancient ritual ...

The celebration of Passover begins Monday. What to know about the Jewish holiday and how is it celebrated.

“Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew, commemorates the biblical exodus of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery under the leadership of Moses. It celebrates faith, ...

My own parents had been among them, stateless refugees in a post-Shoah DP camp, and in our case that outstretched arm led to the New World. Half the Jews of the ...

The Passover Seder commemorates the escape from slavery in Egypt. But then came the 40-year wandering in the desert – a story that resonates with much of ...

During this year's Seder, some may mourn only for Israeli lives lost or held hostage in the war in Gaza. But the Talmud insists on seeing all life as ...