Pope Francis, Rome chief rabbi exchange holiday greetings

Published on April 1, 2013

Pope Francis and Rome’s Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni exchanged greetings to mark Passover and Easter.

Jon Stewart: Faith/Off - Easter vs. Passover

By JewishJournal
Published on April 10, 2012

Passover: U.S vs. Israel

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on April 10, 2012

Happy Passover, Happy Easter, Happy Faith

By Ilana Angel
Published on April 6, 2012

Ignorance is Bliss…

By Julia Bendis
Published on April 22, 2011

Judge denies Easter Mass for Jewish girl

Published on March 25, 2010

A court in Chicago has ruled that a father may not take his Jewish daughter to Catholic Mass on Easter.

Joseph Reyes grabbed headlines when he took his daughter to church and had her baptized despite a temporary restraining order filed by his estranged wife that bars him from exposing their daughter to anything but the Jewish faith.

Artists Converge After ‘The Passion’

By David Finnigan
Published on March 31, 2005

Christian children wearing their Sunday best for last week's Easter services understandably could forget, amidst their Easter egg hunts, that the Last Supper of Jesus was a Passover seder.

But in this season of Easter and Passover, connections between the holidays has inspired an art exhibit showcasing Christian and Jewish artists motivated by religious themes. The exhibit is housed in downtown Los Angeles at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Its aspirations and the artworks themselves are impressive, though the effort has suffered from uneven presentation of the artwork.

The "Passion/Passover" exhibit could be viewed as a positive response to Jewish-Catholic tensions surrounding last year's "The Passion of the Christ" by filmmaker Mel Gibson. His film was praised by Catholic church officials, though many Jewish leaders said the film unreasonably cast Jews as villains.

Passover vs. Easter

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on March 25, 1999

If you want proof that the communion wafer is just a matzo knockoff, or if you wonder where eggs really belong (seder plate? White House lawn? Omelette?), check out "The Jews vs. Christians" on April 3 at bang. Improv Studio on Fairfax Avenue.