But this year many families are torn about how — or even if — to celebrate. Chairs are set for missing members of the Bibas family who are held hostage in Gaza at a Passover Seder table on Thursday, April 11, 2024, at the communal dining hall at Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel,...
One of the most meaningful things you can do to celebrate the Jews' hasty exodus from Egypt is to remove all leavened food products from your property. Spend the weeks leading up to Passover emptying your pantry of all bread, cereal, pasta, crackers and cookies. Take the ban on bread to...
In our "How Do We Celebrate" series, we share the unique and special traditions of all families, particularly with regards to spirituality and religion, but also other traditions that connect to meaning. We want to practice the "mirrors and windows" approach: We hope a family that observes ...
According to Guy, more wine is sold ahead of Purim than prior to the holidays of Passover (in which it is customary to drink four glasses of wine during the Seder) and Rosh Hashanah. For Purim, “People who are used to buying one bottle” can go as far as buying six. Israelis ...
Passover is also a time for families, and when it falls during the week, as it does this year, it is a time off during a work week to celebrate love. This year, while the order of the service and the order of the mean remain the same, the faces at my table will be different....
Calculating the working days in different months is difficult to do with any predictability, since the beginning and ending of months fall on different days that change with each year. So, while you can say with certainty that every January will have 31 days, the amount of working days will...
For “Shabbat Shalom,” which aired in April during Passover, the result of the collaboration focused on a staple of Jewish education. Stay updated with the latest news! Subscribe to The Jerusalem Post Newsletter Subscribe Now “In school, young [Jewish] children, one of the ways they prepare...
Easter bunnies, eggs, chocolate, and other Easter-related things were incorporated into Easter separate from Christianity, creating new traditions that more people would celebrate. What does the Easter Bunny have to do with Jesus? When Christianity spread to Anglo-Saxons, many of the traditions dur...
Jesus went to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover. He rode into Jerusalem on a young donkey. A large crowd spread their coats and palm branches on the road. The people shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” ...
As the Creation of God that He had given value to, fell in disobedience, they would lose their authority over creation, but their worth which was given by God was never lost. How do I know this? because God had planned the redemption of His valued Creation by the death of Christ at ...