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…
Holiday Columns
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…
Rabbah Gila Caine: Israel is our responsibility
By Rabbah Gila Caine (AJNews) – From when, i.e., from which date, does one begin to mention the might of the rains by inserting the…
My mom’s hamantaschen recipe carries the memories that she is losing
by Erin Beser (JTA) — My mother always loved to cook and bake, but I was never welcome in the kitchen. Not every night before…