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Since 85% of the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust spoke Yiddish, including their language in a Holocaust ...
For over 50 years, he has gathered hundreds of illustrated Haggadah texts, amassing what he says may be the largest ...
For more than 3,000 years, this story of enslavement, redemption and liberation has been passed down from generation to generation with the guidance from the Passover guide book, the Haggadah ...
As war reshapes daily life for Israel’s soldiers, the IDF Rabbinate orchestrates an unprecedented effort to bring them the ...
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For many people who celebrate it, Passover brings to mind memories of Seder meals with family and reading from the Haggadah, the script for the Seder ritual, which commemorates the biblical story of ...
A Manhattan rabbi who celebrated with a hostage-poster vandal and others says their varied backgrounds brought depth and delight to her holiday feast. The poem by Primo Levi that begins my ...
Artist David Moss took the Hebrew word lir’ot, to see, to heart. In a Haggadah he began working on in 1980, Moss presented that theme across two facing pages. As the pages begin to be opened ...
Rabbi David Geffen is seen holding his copy of The American Heritage Haggadah, which he wrote. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM) Sitting in the National Library in Jerusalem 35 years ago ...
The traditional text of the Haggadah read during the seder demands we see ourselves personally in the story: “that God acted for me when I left Egypt.” Every part of the service compels us to connect ...
When protected speech becomes grounds for deportation, freedom is in jeopardy. In the Haggadah, we read about four children during the seder: the wise, the wicked, the simple and the uninformed.