Passover
Why Do Some Jews Burn Hametz?
It's customary to burn any remaining leavened products in your possession the morning before Passover.
How to Make Your Own Passover Haggadah
A DIY Haggadah adds a personal touch to your seder and can make for a more meaningful holiday.
The Haggadah
What's inside the book that serves as guide, script and liturgy of the Passover seder.
Should You Sell Your Pet Before Passover?
Who knew pets had anything to do with preparation for the holiday?
This Passover is Like the First Passover
Like our ancestors, we hunker down in our homes while a plague swirls around us, and look toward redemption.
What Does it Mean To Say: ‘All Who are Hungry Come and Eat’?
The Passover seder begins with a declaration that we will throw our doors open and invite the poor in — or does it?
Tefillat Tal: Cultivating a Mindset of Sufficiency
In praying for something as fleeting and nearly invisible as dew, this Passover prayer honors the transition from abundance to enough-ness.
Remembering Our Oppression With Sweetness
The haroset paste eaten at the Passover Seder recalls the mortar the Israelite slaves used to build in Egypt. So why is it so sweet?
The Hidden Arc of the Passover Seder
The Mishnah says the seder must begin with the disgrace of enslavement and end with praise of God. The authors of the Haggadah did a little more than that.