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Passover

A 300-pound plaster sphinx head from Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 film "The Then Commandments," which was buried along with the rest of the set under the sand at Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes for almost a century. (Courtesy Dunes Center)
Posted inPassover

10 things to do with your kids during Passover in the Bay Area

by J. Staff April 15, 2025April 16, 2025
In this year's Asufa Haggadah, an annual production with art by dozens of Israeli artists, multiple illustrations show seder tables with empty yellow chairs, symbols of the hostages in Gaza. (Philissa Cramer/JTA)
Posted inIsrael

For a second year, Jews mark Festival of Freedom as hostages remain in Gaza

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer April 11, 2025April 11, 2025
Stephen Miller in 2016 (Wikimedia/Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inOpinion

Stephen Miller’s cavalier cruelty misses the whole point of Passover

Rabbi Jay Michaelson by Rabbi Jay Michaelson April 9, 2025April 9, 2025
The congregation exits a Black church in Pittsburgh in 1941. (Jack Delano/Farm Security Administration)
Posted inOpinion

Why I’m holding my Seder in a historic Black church

Tamar Manasseh by Tamar Manasseh April 8, 2025April 8, 2025
A 19th-century Ukrainian art print of a family seder
Posted inOpinion

The Passover seder is a model for healing democracies in peril

Rabbi Meesh Hammer-Kossoy by Rabbi Meesh Hammer-Kossoy April 7, 2025April 7, 2025
Spanikomatzah – or a matzah spanikopita. (Micah Siva)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Matzah Madness recipe contest winner: ‘Spanikomatzah’ — an unleavened take on a Greek classic

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 4, 2025April 21, 2025
Helene Radano’s No-Bake Matzah Napoleon (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inRecipe

In Matzah Madness contest runners-up, matzah is basis for two indulgent desserts

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer April 4, 2025April 21, 2025
Boxes of Trader Joe's matzah for sale. (Photo/JTA-Isabella Armus)
Posted inTorah

Matzah represents our need for humility in relationships

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen April 3, 2025April 4, 2025
The pile of haggadahs in intrepid haggadah correspondent David A.M. Wilensky's home grows ever taller. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inPassover

New haggadahs for 2025 include sage wisdom, JewBelong’s take — and one ‘in the original Klingon’

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky April 1, 2025April 4, 2025
Passover "Malabi" (Micah Siva)
Posted inRecipe

Pistachios, apple and Manischewitz syrup top this Passover pudding

Micah Siva by Micah Siva March 31, 2025April 21, 2025

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