Chabad.org untangles the mysteries of the Jewish calendar The intricacies of the Jewish calendar have long fascinated scholars, but so have they stymied ordinary folks trying to plan their Jewish holiday observance. This year is one of those unusual years when Passover begins on Saturday night. The last time this happened 13 years ago, when […]

Jewish people love to ask questions. As part of the Passover tradition, we ask four at the Seder table. But if you pay attention, there’s usually a question in every statement and every answer. In honor of Passover, we asked four Chabad representatives our own set of questions: Dinie Cohen, Chabad of Sacramento, California Dov Yona […]

Every holiday has its centerpiece, its symbol, and none is more rich and varied than the Passover Seder plate. Each item has been the subject of generations of scholarship and debate, while the diversity of traditions on display speaks eloquently to three thousand years of Jewish history in countries and cultures all over the world. […]

Australia and New Zealand welcome a pandemic-free holiday As the coronavirus began its deadly march across the globe a little more than a year ago, Passover was on the minds of Jews worldwide. Seder without the family? Where to obtain matzah, kosher wine and other Passover essentials? For many of the Jews “Down Under,” this […]

Rushing to ensure that everyone has a Seder amid new restrictions From Red to Orange to White and then back to Red, the coronavirus “zones” in Italy are constantly in flux, upending the lives of millions as they try to navigate an ever-changing set of rules, just as they did one year ago. As conditions […]

DUBAI: Jewish communities in the Gulf region will be getting 650 pounds of matzah imported ahead of Passover, according to the Times of Israel newspaper.   The Association of Gulf Jewish Communities will arrange delivering the cracker traditionally served on Passover to Jews in the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait.  The body, […]

It all started with a post on a travel and credit card points forum from a non-regular user.  “Dr. Jay Goldstein passed away this afternoon in Fargo, ND,” it read. “Ideally, for the funeral scheduled for tomorrow, we would have his Jewish name and parents’ names, but when I spoke with him last week, he […]

The Tamim Academy network is partnering with Chabad to upend traditional ideas about Jewish education “Create it and I’ll come.”  Maryashie Deren put down the phone in disbelief. This was the third call she had received from a New York parent. Panic-stricken at the prospect of spending the winter locked down in a tiny apartment […]

What would they tell us today? What Would They Tell Us Today? Some of us would have loved to be a fly on the wall at the Seder described in the Haggadah: It happened that Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah, Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Tarphon were reclining [at a Seder] in Bnei […]

Last-minute Seders-to-Go became a year-long program of acts of kindness As the global Jewish community turns the corner of a full year’s worth of pandemic-style Jewish engagement, Passover is here to greet us once again. While last year may have required many to scramble and pivot with creative and ingenious ways to adapt during the […]