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Since 85% of the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust spoke Yiddish, including their language in a Holocaust ...
Yom Ha’ … It was the last morning of Pesach, I was sitting at the table with my grandchildren, spreading butter on matzah, ...
HARRISBURG — In a piece for The New York Times opinion section, Gov. Josh Shapiro reflects on the night an arsonist targeted the Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence. Writing not only as a public servant ...
After a difficult Passover, a single woman, a bereaved mother, a freed hostage, and Shabbat-observant teens all deliver ...
For more than 3,000 years, this story of enslavement, redemption and liberation has been passed down from generation to generation with the guidance from the Passover guide book, the Haggadah ...
Inside the charred southern wing of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s official residence were the burnt remnants of a Haggadah — and a mystery. Printed on one surviving page was Hatikvah ...
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At the beginning of the Pesach Seder we say: “Today we are here; next year in Eretz Yisrael. Today we are slaves; next year (when we will be in Eretz Yisrael) free men.” Today, with thanks to ...
A Manhattan rabbi who celebrated with a hostage-poster vandal and others says their varied backgrounds brought depth and delight to her holiday feast. The poem by Primo Levi that begins my ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Boxes of matzah stacked high in grocery stores? It’s almost Passover, the weeklong Jewish holiday that comes each spring. For many people who celebrate it, Passover brings to ...
Artist David Moss took the Hebrew word lir’ot, to see, to heart. In a Haggadah he began working on in 1980, Moss presented that theme across two facing pages. As the pages begin to be opened ...