Tag: Passover

The Knesset has driven the last nail in the once holy coffin of changing the clocks twice a year according to the timing of Passover and Yom Kippur. Daylight Time will remain until the end of October.

Yitzchak Tshuva expressed regret that the gas flow's arrival into Israel was being presented as having desecrated the Shabbat or the Pesach Holiday.

Salsa dancing flash mob and music in Paris.

The girl was accompanying her father, who was among the Jewish activists visiting the holy site.

When all the ribbetting is silenced, we begin to hear an old, familiar tune: the melodious song of our own souls.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç delivered a Passover message Thursday to Ishak Ibrahimzadeh, the head of the local Jewish community. “It is our basic...

An article in Mekor Rishon appeared to offer readers the oppurtunity to participate in the Korban Pesach.

Pst! Heard the latest “humras” for Passover. A group of Haredi rabbis put their seal of approval for Kosher for Passover cigarettes. Israeli’s chief rabbis respond: Poison is not kosher at any time.

The fifth cup is based on a machlokes in the Gemarah.

Connections between the Jewish and American traditions of liberty.

Passover interview: Rolin Abdallah grew up in an Arab country with no knowledge of her Jewish heritage. Today, she is IDF soldier Dina Ovadia. Here is a Cinderella and Haggadah story rolled into one.

Jerusalem police banged on the door of a family during the Seder Monday night to make sure that a young woman was not violating...

Ever since his first campaign for President, President Obama has been running a Passover Seder, in which he celebrates the holiday of the Israel's...

No matter how deeply American Zionists yearned for peace their good intentions often went unreciprocated. There was plenty of matzah ball soup and brisket, to be sure. But the dining room was occupied by a makeshift tent, the Passover table was replaced by a pile of sheepskin rugs, and the Lindheim children were dressed in Arab garb.

Activists were arrested for attempting to fulfill the commandment of the Passover sacrifice.

The past few months saw an increase in acts of terrorism by rock hurling.

Obama’s aides have not explained to the president that Jews masquerade on Purim and not on Passover. Once again, Obama hosts a White House Seder. He plays Pharaoh, who never let the people go.

Every year, a few thousand Israelis think there is nothing better to do on Passover but to celebrate the Exodus from Egypt by going back there, apparently thinking that terror is better then slavery.

Williamsburg, New York Haredim have finally convinced Columbia Pictures to halt filming of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" in order not to cause parking problems...

Obama's visit remains a symbol that among us are those who still carry the ghetto mentality.

Now on the Eve of Passover we should be remembering that our salvation will come only from God, not the President of the United States.

Approximately 60,000 Americans and Canadians will spend more than $200 million this Passover, and many of those with enough money are hiring a chef...

The Russian Jewish Congress has partnered with one of the country’s leading Internet companies to deliver free matzah to Muscovite Jews. The only cost...

Israelis are excited over the latest tourists – locusts – while the Agriculture Ministry is making sure the pests have a short stay. Armchair preachers are having as field day with the new arrivals.

President Barack Obama will have to eat kosher for Passover meals, without bread, during his stay the King David Hotel next week, Haaretz reported. "We're...

An elementary list of reminders regarding the Holiday of Freedom.

Check out the eTeacher Haggadah, complete with English translation and transliteration. No matter your Hebrew level, you can follow along and appreciate the meaning and pronunciation of the text.

Hatched fears of a chicken shortage for Passover because of a one-day shutdown at Empire Kosher’s poultry plant are not even worth chickenfeed, according...

A swarm of several thousands locusts that descended on Egypt began to cross into southern Israel Monday night, but agricultural officials said that pesticides...

No, I'm not laughing...but come on, locusts? Egypt? Just before Passover?