Pesah

Ezra Sivan asks: Where is the justice in the tenth plague?

Yosef Lindell argues that the Haggadah focuses on the story of the Exodus rather than on the laws of the paschal sacrifice as a way of looking forward towards the future redemption.

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

As another Pesach in isolation approaches, Will Friedman examines how Rabbinic texts take solo sedarim into account.

Julie and Uri Goldstein offer a timely Haggadah for reflection this year.

Yakov Ellenbogen reviews Susan Weingarten's Haroset: A Taste of Jewish History.

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

What does Shakespeare have to say about the Exodus, Moses, and the power of storytelling? Shaina Trapedo explores how the Bard's work can speak to us during this unprecedented Pesach season.

Leah Sarna argues that this is the Passover to tell the stories of enslaved Jewish women: of the victims of October 7, who were and likely still are subjected to sexual violence, and of the heroic women in the era of the Exodus, who fought to ensure the perpetuation of the Jewish people.

Through a careful reading of the Tosefta and its parallels, David Matar argues that Hillel led the Pharisaic faction to a populist victory over the Sadducean priests over the matter of offering the Pesach Sacrifice on Shabbat.