Celebrate

For one Greek Jewish family, this casserole has been a seder staple for years.

Passover is also a time for us to reflect on the mitzrayim we face today: what are the narrow places from which we must emerge? What are the ways in which we must move toward freedom from transphobia and heterosexism in our families, our workplaces, our Jewish communities? What steps do we need to take to bring us farther along on this journey?

Gentlemen, as Passover approaches, I thought you would appreciate the following advice: To avoid the usual stress of Passover cleaning, ...

Over the next few weeks, the Torah portions we are reading obsess about two terms with which translators struggle mightily. ...

What is the best way to usher in the Passover season? Not with handwringing and housecleaning, but with celebration, blessing ...

Leavened versus unleavened; inside versus outside; Jew versus non-Jew; life versus death. Passover is a festival of absolute binary distinctions that we ritually link together in order to affirm our identity as the people God brought out of Egypt and to pass that identity on to our children. This is the Torah's equivalent of “Jewish Identity for Dummies.”

Each year, Jewish children around the world learn the Four Questions. After all the image of the small child chanting ...

This week’s Torah portion, Tzav, ends with a ceremony consecrating the first Israelite priests, Aaron and his sons. The blood ...

Last week I had a nasty bout of stomach flu. One of those batten down the hatches, no food for ...