Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every year at Passover, Jews tell the story of their exodus from Egypt. In the evening’s Seder, we are told that the more one ...

The Modern Orthodox community’s embrace of Pesach getaways offers tradeoffs — and lessons to learn, writes a New York City rabbi who is spending the holiday in Arizona. PHOENIX, Arizona — On one ...

Surely, freedom means the overthrow of rules? Why leave one bondage merely to enter another, even if only a symbolic one? Passover is half a celebration; it recalls an incomplete redemption, the ...

Researching the various theories of which desert route the ancient Hebrews may have taken out of Egypt into the Land of Canaan in the biblical Exodus story – the geography of which has captivated ...

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On Monday evening, March 9, Jews around the world will begin to celebrate the festival of Purim. This holiday, which commemorates the events described in the biblical book of Esther, is known mostly ...

Three millennia ago, the Jews stood at the Jordan River’s banks, about to return to the Promised Land. They must have been as scared and excited as we were the night before leaving for college. They ...

Based on an essay by Rabbi Pinchas Stolper (1931–2022) who credits Rabbi Mordechai Schechter (1995–2023), both are disciples of the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin Rav Yitzchok Hutner (1906 ...

After two years of virtual Passovers, NuRoots is going back to basics for this year’s Collective Escape. From April 22 to 24, about 75 “wanderers,” ages 21 through 30-something, will descend upon ...

Jews around the world are celebrating Passover, which commemorates the redemption of ancient Israel from slavery in Egypt. Although that event occurred nearly 3,500 years ago, its essential lessons — ...