The Passover story has come to function as a powerful narrative of persecution and liberation for Jewish people.

It seems plausible that the beginning of the settlement of the children of Israel in the eastern Nile Delta—dated to ...

Passover, a Jewish celebration of freedom from slavery in Egypt, is celebrated in April. Jewish families will once again come together to celebrate a Seder meal. Here is what you need to know about ...

Many Yiddish children’s stories about the Holocaust are set during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and depict children in heroic, ...

She took the title of her 2009 Civil War novel, “All Other Nights,” from the Passover Haggadah, which she calls a book about ...

Rabbi Carlebach reminds us that God doesn’t always speak through thunderous miracles but through the quiet, through the ...

Hadassah Ben Ari had tried but struggled to translate the gravity of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre on Israel by Hamas to her ...

These new titles for Pesach give young ones a taste of the holiday’s history and traditions, from tales of adventure to a board book shaped like a Seder plate.

On Mothering Sunday, we can remember the famous mothers of the Bible. Many of these mothers played an important role not only ...

The biblical Passover mentioned in the book of Exodus also occurred in individual ... which is then hidden. Children try to find it for a prize, called a “treasure from Egypt.” The term Afikomen is ...

Reading offers a break from work and caring for other people and it can also be a way to gain personal insights.

Her book “Over the Influence ... juggling the needs of my family and work in the 21st century. But after the kids fall asleep, I’ve been escaping to southern India in the early 20th century.