Rabbi Cantor Russell Jayne: The updated Seder Plate
By Rabbi Cantor Russell Jayne (AJNews) – The traditional Seder plate contains an egg, shank bone, karpas, charoset and maror. Some also make room for…
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Rabbi Steven Schwarzman: Why this night is different
By Rabbi Steven Schwarzman (AJNews) – Pesach, Matzah, and Maror – in the Haggadah, Rabban Gamliel teaches that whoever doesn’t say these three things on Passover…
Rabbi Nisan Andrews: Pesach and responsibilities
By Rabbi Nisan Andrews (AJNews) – During my sojourn in London, England, I remember a congregant who had just returned from a visit to the…
Self-Discovery through storytelling: A CJA Grade 2 autobiography project
By Lesley Machon (AJNews) – “Story, as it turns out, was crucial to our evolution—more so than opposable thumbs. Opposable thumbs let us hang…
An ‘historic’ day in Israel ends with a political compromise — and big questions about the future
by Philissa Cramer (JTA) — Like hundreds of thousands of her fellow Israelis, Kelly Breakstone Roth’s instinct on March 26 was to take to the…