Why Passover Is Important

Commemorating the foundational event in Jewish history makes Jews who they are.

How to Sell Your Hametz For Passover

There are several ways to sell leavened products that you cannot dispose of before Passover.

Jews in Persian Music

For hundreds of years, most Persian musicians were Jews.

A Passover Beyond Words 

The visceral cries of the enslaved Israelites, not their words, was essential to the process of liberation.

The Jewish History of Snapple

Spilling the tea on the Jewish American tea industry...

The Jews of Russia

The territories of the former Russian Empire were the cradle of Jewish modernity, the birthplace of Zionism and Jewish socialism, and a major center of the Hasidic movement.

Bava Metzia 30

Beyond the letter of the law.

The Gifts of Darkness 

When we look at the dark future like God wrestlers, then even in the darkest moments, we can maintain a clear and piercing vision.

Natan Sharansky

A former Soviet dissident, Sharansky spent nine years in prison and became the face of the movement to free Jews living under communism.