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Holidays
Tisha b’Av: Holiday of Wake-Up Calls
Rabbi Shlomo Seidenfeld
July 24, 2025
It behooves us, the Jewish people, to look in the mirror and remind ourselves of our noble and timeless mission to be a reflection.
Tisha b’Av: Birthday of Grief and Truth
Eva Robbins
July 24, 2025
Anyone touched by the Holocaust or the events of Oct. 7 has had their hearts broken apart. Tisha b’Av is but another opportunity to allow the tears of our inner Mikveh (Divine spiritual bath) to flow once again, releasing all that fills our souls.
A Laundry List of Bitterness – A poem for Maror
Rick Lupert
April 17, 2025
It is a pleasure to drink unadulterated whiskey…
PJ Library Brings Presidential Passover to Young Readers
Benjamin Raziel
April 11, 2025
The New Children’s Book Celebrates the First Presidential Seder
Honoring the Women of the Exodus: A Women’s Seder
Eva Robbins
April 10, 2025
Hineini, “We are fully present,” honoring important and pivotal women in the formation of our history, role models of values and action, inspirational human beings who helped to shape the narrative of our past, transforming their darkness and redeeming their exile.
How to Zionize Our Seders
Gil Troy
April 10, 2025
On one level, admittedly, my call to “Zionize the Seder” is redundant. The seder is deeply Zionist already, in marking our freedom as a people.
Out of Order: When the World Breaks Script, the Seder Reminds Us Where We’re Going
Rabbi Matthew Rosenberg
April 9, 2025
The Seder is a ritual of induced dissonance. It trains us to sit inside the discomfort of anticipation and contradiction. This is the bread of affliction; this is the bread of redemption.
From Slavery to Freedom: The Land of Israel and the Passover Seder
Gerald M. Steinberg
April 9, 2025
The Haggadah makes clear that the Exodus was not an end in itself, but rather the first step in the return to the Land of Israel, where the Israelites would live as a free people.
The Seder on Hitler Street 80 Years Ago
Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern
April 9, 2025
As recounted in the biography of Chaplain Bohnen written by his son Michael, 750 American soldiers attended the meal celebrating the Festival of Freedom that evening.
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