Pesah

How can we respond to a Seder during which it is prohibited to host guests? Yitzchak Etshalom and David Block each offer unique tefillot to be recited at our Seder table this year.

Jon Kelsen uncovers a deeper rabbinic meaning to the blood needed to "passover" the Israelites.

Zach Truboff draws on personal experience in considering the place of Yizkor on Yom Tov.

Ben Lorber reflects on the meaning of ya'aleh ve-yavo.

Jerome Marcus explores understandings of freedom within halakhah and how they relate to Pesah and Shavuot

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

In a piece that resonates today, Tzvi Sinensky examines what made the Jews' salvation from the plague of the firstborns so miraculous.

As we approach Pesach, Bruce Black's latest poem vividly retells the splitting of the sea.

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.

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