Every year at the start of Spring Jewish households across the world mark the holiday of Pesach, we spend hours recounting our ancestors liberation from Egypt, freedom from slavery and essentially the ...

While many Christians know of Passover through the story of Moses and the blood of the lamb, the story from the Jewish perspective carries a different meaning. In Jewish tradition, the story of ...

The arrival of spring marks the approach of a couple of important religious holidays. And this year, they're coming later than most people who celebrate are used to. If you didn't know Easter's date ...

It’s a Jewish holiday that almost nobody remembers … I usually am reminded about it in shul at morning minyan, when I am pleasantly surprised that we don’t say tachanun that day! I’m speaking of ...

“Pesach is the oldest and most transformative story of hope ever told. It is a story of the defeat of probability by the force of possibility. It defines what it is to be a Jew: a living symbol of ...

The year 5775 is sandwiched between two leap years, each of which contains an extra month of Adar. In those leap years, and despite the fact that most authorities maintain that the “real” Adar is the ...

The Torah verses convey profound messages that we can insightfully extract for our daily lives. Rabbi Shay Tahan, the Rosh Kollel of Shaarei Ezra in Brooklyn, NY, graciously opens the gates to ...

In the book of Leviticus, the Jews receive the laws of the Torah. These laws are all encompassing — ranging from the ritual to the dietary to the sexual to the financial. They are clear — dividing ...

We are approaching Pesach at a difficult time for many people. Many of us are in some degree of turmoil and are at best apprehensive as to how to ‘celebrate’ Pesach especially, how do we feel joy or ...

When Erev Pesach falls on Shabbat, one should destroy all terumah that is chametz on Friday except for two meals’ worth for consumption on Shabbat (Pesachim 13a). Since the Gemara states that one ...