By now, most of us are elbow grease-deep in cleaning our houses for Passover, and getting ready to make that big and most noteworthy of transitions — from cleaning to cooking. If you’re like me, the last thing you want is to take on even more work. (Unless, of course, it’s writing just a few […]

I am still holding out for a holiday where we’re required to enjoy four cups of good whiskey, but until then, I will just have to make do with this four cups of wine business, which isn’t that bad.
You can go crazy in the wine aisle trying to choose just the right wines for your […]

We’re in the last week of submissions for the Best Seder Ever contest. So if you’ve got a great Passover story, send it to us, quick. In the meantime, though, we’re sharing our own stories of favorite Passovers from the MyJewishLearning staff.
In the Passover Hagaddah, we read that each person is supposed to lirot the […]

My kitchen is overflowing with gadgets and appliances. We have a seltzer maker, 2 crock pots, a hot water heater, a coffee maker, a toaster, a coffee grinder, a food processor, two hand mixers, and a few I’m embarrassed to even admit we own. Also, I’m dying for an ice cream maker. But on Passover, […]

Most of us go to the grocery store with a list of what we need for the coming few days or week. Some of us are better than others at sticking to that list, but if you have a list, you’re already thinking ahead to a certain extent, right?
Even if you’re not by nature a […]

Passover is coming! And a huuge bucket of matzah could be coming your way, too…if you enter our Best Seder Ever contest.
Thinking about the festive Passover meal has the MJL staff in an introspective mood. (Cue the Loretta Lynn soundtrack, and the black-and-white slide reel.) Senior editor Shoshanna Lockshin had some seder memories of her […]

When Passover approaches, it seems like everyone in the Jewish community goes a little bit (or more than a little bit) crazy. You start hearing about people going through every page of every book in their house, trying to eliminate miniscule crumbs. Kosher stores are clogged with families inspecting the new Passover friendly products, and […]

What’s your best Passover story? It can be a horror story about Passover cleaning, or the story of how your parents met and fell in love at a Passover concert at college…or about the time your grandfather came to the seder dressed as a giant frog.
My Jewish Learning wants to hear your Passover memory.
It can […]

I asked Tamar, our intrepid co-blogger here, if there was such a thing as too many wacky Purim photos. Really, I just wanted to show off yet another intersection of Orthodox Jews and Spider-Man.

In the true spirit of giving, Frum Satire sent me the link to the photo on the Life in Israel blog. Although […]

I wasn’t dreaming of a white Purim, but that’s what we got. Saturday night, Shabbat went out, and I shoveled out our car in raver pants that were bigger and bulkier than a dress and a three-piece paisley suit. This was the kind of Purim costume that was the essence of last-minute decision-making: every weird […]