Passover Seder
Purim, Passover and the formation of memory
By Beth Kissileff — April 19, 2024
(RNS) — An essential part of the memory-making of both Passover and Purim is the hope we find in gathering.
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.
Passover reminds us why a nation needs to remember its ‘bad old times’
By Avi Shafran — April 3, 2023
(RNS) — The holiday is about recalling uncomfortable truths, an exercise every American can benefit from.
Eucharistic prayer is the heart of the Eucharist
By Thomas Reese — February 7, 2023
(RNS) — The Eucharistic prayer is the most important and least understood prayer in the Mass.
At Coachella, Jewish rapper Kosha Dillz hosts mini-‘Seders’ for Passover
By Kathryn Post — April 19, 2022
(RNS) — At ‘matzahchella,’ the rapper offered boiled eggs and horseradish to concertgoers as part of a 10-minute Passover Seder.
How the shofar emerged as a weapon of spiritual warfare for some evangelicals
By Yonat Shimron — January 6, 2021
(RNS) — Shofar blowing, as in today's Jericho March, has become commonplace in many political demonstrations far removed from any Jewish or Israel-related themes.
Jews around the world prepare for a Passover different from any other
By Menachem Wecker and Jonathan Harounoff — April 8, 2020
(RNS) — Despite the COVID-19 crisis, more Jewish households worldwide are now expected to host their own Seder — virtually or in person — than ever before.
An extra symbol on this year’s seder plate: Chewing gum
By Jan Zauzmer — April 6, 2020
(RNS) — This year's spatially distant, socially malleable holiday observance is nothing if not an attempt to stretch the bounds of tradition. Let's add something meaningfully elastic.
The Seder’s secrets to enduring a pandemic
By Ellen Bernstein — April 1, 2020
HOLYOKE, Mass. (RNS) — Passover is coming this year just in time to remind us to bless what God has given us, the first greens of spring and the maror, the bitter herb. How will we bless the bitterness this year?
Stranded at New York auto show, car writers meet for (corporate-sponsored) seder
By Jeffrey Yoskowitz — April 19, 2019
NEW YORK (RNS) — For Jews who cover the car industry at the New York International Auto Show's media days, which often fall during Passover, the seder at Katz’s Deli has become a respite.
How cultural appropriation became good for the Jews
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 22, 2017
Let's hear it for cultural appropriation. Without it, Judaism could not exist.
Christian seders OK by me
By Mark Silk — April 14, 2014
Over at Religion Dispatches, Rebecca Cynamon-Murphy -- a Christian woman married to a Jewish man -- urges her co-religionists to forego the increasingly popular American Christian practice of hosting their own Passover seders. I say why not?
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