Special Coverage

19 organizations partner for Shavuot all-night learning

Get your cheesecake ready, Baltimore. Nineteen local Jewish organizations are participating in a virtual Shavuot event on May 16 from 7:30 p.m. until 5 a.m....
A family celebrates the seder

What you (maybe) didn’t know about Passover

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By My Jewish Learning Passover celebrates the ancient Exodus of the Israelites from bondage in Egypt. Here are some facts you might not have known...

Festival of freedom: Families from around the country share what traditions make their Passovers...

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Celebrated at home, Passover, perhaps more than any other Jewish holiday, provides space for families to create their own customs and rituals. A Moroccan family...

These new Haggadah options will spice up your Passover seder

The pandemic has altered the experience of the Passover seder, but one thing hasn’t changed: It’s a golden age for creative Haggadahs. Here are...
Matzah Craze

In newest Passover children’s books, a lion reads the Haggadah and a Depression-era mitzvah

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By Penny Schwartz On the eve of Passover during the Depression, a juggler in ragged clothes is invited into the home of a poor family...