In the weeks leading up to Passover 2008, Barack Obama’s campaign was in freefall. His polling numbers were fading, and Jews were abandoning him after ABC News reported inflammatory statements ...

Rabbi Albert Slomovitz, the executive director of the Jewish Christian Discovery Center (JCDC), will lead a model Passover ...

Fireworks, Haggadot and charity ...

As Pesach arrives once more, eyes will inevitably turn to the Haggadah’s centuries-old short prayer known as Shefoch ...

For the Jews of India, Israel was not viewed as a foreign land to colonize but rather as the ancient homeland of the Jewish ...

In Christian circles ... This is one of the themes of Passover – the seder celebrates the birth and continuity of the Jewish nation, and reminds participants that “in every generation ...

Passover, Lent and Ramadan are times of renewal; this year all three are occurring in spring, the time of nature’s renewal.

We spoke with a historian to gain insight into the foods that would have been common in Jesus' diet, from the bread he broke ...

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