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At many Passover Seders, Israel unrest will be on the table

By Leanne Italie — April 4, 2023
(RNS) — “The Seder is for me a perfect moment for us to engage in conversation around a myriad of topics that are about unfinished projects or places where there’s strife or turmoil,” said one Jewish leader of this week's Passover meals.

In a Ukrainian librarian’s matzo, a story of Passover freedom

By Alex Weisler — March 29, 2021
(RNS) — An 89-year-old's journey teaches us to share our freedoms to build meaningful community.

On Israeli posters, Paddington Bear gets kosher for Passover

By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 22, 2018
JERUSALEM (AP) — On some posters advertising the new film, 'Paddington 2,' the British movie creation is being given a kosher-for-Passover makeover.

The ‘Splainer: Passover, the most beloved Jewish holiday

By Lauren Markoe — April 22, 2016
(RNS) Slaves, plagues, wine and matzo.

At Passover, Jews love matzo … until they don’t

By Lauren Markoe — April 10, 2014
(RNS) How many days do you have to eat matzo before it starts to taste like "the bread of affliction?"

GUEST COMMENTARY: Passover discomfort over slavery

By Julie Schonfeld — March 25, 2013
(RNS) Jewish tradition commands us to see ourselves as though we were slaves in Egypt. As I sit at my Passover Seder this year, I will wonder about my dining room chairs, and my tablecloth, both of which seem too inexpensive for the labor that must have gone into producing them.
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