Holidays

Yaakov Jaffe analyzes the multiple meanings of a medieval Jewish poem and popular Shabbat table song.

"Ha lahma anya" is one of the first paragraphs recited at the Seder - and its strange features have been baffling commentators for centuries. Elli Fischer adds his reflections to the mix.

For Jennifer Raskas, the seder narrative reflects on the past and informs the future.

James Diamond takes a fresh approach to Maimonides's Passover theology and "Elijah's Cup."

Leah Cypess imagines the what-ifs of Pesach cleaning.

It is customary to celebrate Tu Bi-Shevat by eating fruits and reciting the She-Hehiyanu blessing on them. This custom, however, has proved challenging in recent years as advances in technology have made it difficult to find new fruit—as defined by halakhah—to say the She-Hehiyanu

Ezra Sivan probes the Sabbath and the Torah's call to love God.

Joey Rosenfeld takes Kafka and Rav Nahman for a spin, on their timely drey-ing of the tops!

Malka Simkovich on the Hasmonean victories and the truth behind the Hanukkah miracle.

Ben Greenfield God isn’t angry with Sarah, when she laughs at the idea of birthing a child in her old age (Gen. 18:12-15). God is...