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illustrative photo of rows of chairs in a synagogue
Posted inLocal Voice

An unexpected reminder of the wonder of a synagogue experience

Rabbi Darren Kleinberg by Rabbi Darren Kleinberg April 21, 2022
Part of the Passover Papyrus, written in Aramaic. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin)
Posted inOpinion

‘No beer on Passover, OK?’ —Jerusalem to Jewish soldiers in Egypt, 419 BCE

by Dr. Henry Abramson and Forward April 20, 2022April 21, 2022
headshot of Holly Blue Hawkins, and older white woman, inset in a larger picture of a cemetery
Posted inNorthern California

Expert in Jewish burials is devoted to making them more ‘green’

Jew,  Jewish,  J. The Jewish News of Northern California
Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss April 20, 2022
Rapper Kosha Dillz, center, dressed as Moses, leads Passover mini-Seders outside the Shabbat Tent at the Coachella music festival in Indio, California. Dillz refers to the event as Matzahchella. (Photo/RNS via Instagram-@chrism_arts)
Posted inReligion

‘Matzahchella’: Jewish rapper Kosha Dillz hosts mini-seders at Coachella

by Kathryn Post and RNS April 20, 2022April 29, 2022
Donny Osmond in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."
Posted inTorah

How Donny Osmond and his ‘Dreamcoat’ figure in Passover’s miracles

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf April 15, 2022April 21, 2022
A 19th-century Ukrainian art print of a family seder
Posted inFirst Person

The power of Passover, and of grandparents

by Sue Fishkoff April 14, 2022April 14, 2022
an illustration of a traditional seder plate, with olives, a sunflower, an artichoke and an orange next to it
Posted inUncategorized

A sunflower for Ukraine? A tomato for farmworkers? Here’s why I’m sticking to the basics on my Passover seder plate.

Rabbi Sari Laufer by Rabbi Sari Laufer and JTA April 14, 2022April 14, 2022
Bread! (Photo/Wikimedia-3268zauber CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inTorah

Expel that yeast! (And get rid of the thorn from your own life) 

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg April 8, 2022April 7, 2022
Matzah travels on the production line of the Tiferet HaMatzot factory in Dnipro, Ukraine, Dec. 8, 2014. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inLocal Voice

This year, matzah symbolizes Ukrainian courage and resistance

Rabbi Gedalia Potash by Rabbi Gedalia Potash April 6, 2022
An acorn on the seder plate brings the struggle of the indigenous peoples of Northern California into the Passover story. (Photo/piqsels.com)
Posted inLocal Voice

Why we’ve started putting an acorn on our seder plates 

Rabbi Dev Noily by Rabbi Dev Noily April 5, 2022April 5, 2022

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