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Seder

Wilderness Torah's 2022 Rosh Hashanah seder at Green Valley Farms. (Photo/Julia Maryanska for Wilderness Torah)
Posted inUncategorized

Earth-based groups embrace the Sephardic Rosh Hashanah seder this year

by Dan Pine September 5, 2023September 6, 2023
Attendees raise a cup of grape juice — no wine allowed — at the San Quentin State Prison seder. (Photo/Vincent O'Bannon/San Quentin News)
Posted inNorthern California

At San Quentin prison seder, the Exodus story is personal

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 7, 2023April 17, 2023
Evan Gershkovich, a Moscow correspondent at the Wall Street Journal, has been arrested in Russia and charged with espionage. His colleague Shayndi Raice is calling on Jews to place an empty seat at their seder table as a gesture of support. (Photo/JTA-Dimitar Dilkoff-AFP via Getty Images; #FreeEvan image via Twitter)
Posted inNews

A new symbol at some Passover seders: an empty seat for Evan Gershkovich, Jewish journalist jailed in Russia

by David I. Klein and JTA April 7, 2023
From "Elijah's Ascension" by Gustave Doré, 1865
Posted inLocal Voice

Who is Elijah anyway? And will he be at your seder this year?

Daniel C. Matt by Daniel C. Matt March 21, 2023
2020 Market Hall seder plate with horseradish, shank bone and eggs. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inJewish Life

UPDATED: Community Passover seders around the Bay Area

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb March 13, 2023March 30, 2023
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
A Passover seder in 2019. (Photo/JTA-Creative Touch Imagine Ltd/Nurphoto)
Posted inUncategorized

As in-person Seders return, some vulnerable Jews are being left behind

by Stav Ziv and Forward April 14, 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
Svetlana Niselevitch receives a haggadah for Passover from a JDC staff member outside her home in Odessa, Ukraine, April 8, 2022. (Photo/JTA-JDC)
Posted inWorld

Despite danger and disruption, Ukrainian Jews prepare to celebrate Passover in public seders

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA April 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

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