Haggadah

Passover is over, but the story isn’t - opinion

On the eve of Pessah 1944, in Bergen-Belsen, two rabbis, Rabbi Aaron Davids and Rabbi Avraham Levison, confronted an unbearable question: What does one do when the Torah itself cannot be kept?

People celebrate the Passover Seder in an underground parking lot used as a public shelter during the ongoing war, April 1, 2026
THE YAHUDA HAGGADAH, Southern Western Germany, ca. 1470-80, handwritten on parchment; brown ink, and gold and silver leaf

A voice of praise: Why this Haggadah puts Miriam at the center of the Exodus

Far Right influencers Candace Owens (L) and Tucker Carlson (R); illustrative.

When the Passover Seder comes to life - opinion

Dachau (seen 2020): The stench, the skeletal figures, the degradation.

In the shadow of the Holocaust, survivors kept Passover alive in 1946 - opinion


20 years since the Seder bombing attack: Waving to the Angel of Death

Ruminations on the 20th anniversary of the Park Hotel bombing on Seder night – and how the Haggadah helped me cope.

 THE AFTERMATH: Reacting to the news of the terror attack at Netanya’s Park Hotel, March 27, 2002.

Modern Haggadah adds new dimension to the Passover Seder

I view this Haggadah as a step forward in this age of photographs, because the author via his carefully selected distinguished photographs illustrates each step of the way in the Seder process.

 The cover of the Pictures Tell Haggadah

Passover: Does living in Israel guarantee freedom?

We are still slaves to many outworn concepts and practices in Israel.

 Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion on March 15 at the main station in Krakow, Poland, being guided by volunteers to reach a train to Berlin.

How to stop worrying and learn to love the lockdown - opinion

Eternal optimists that we are, we believe with a full faith that humanity will survive and the world will return to a new normal.

 ONCE THE clock stopped, the serenity started.

How a Moroccan Jew celebrated liberation from Hitler with a Haggadah

In 1943, a Moroccan Jew celebrated the end of the occupation by composing and publishing a book closely modeled on the Passover Haggadah.

THE FDR MEMORIAL, Washington: The ‘Hitler Haggadah’ author interspersed Roosevelt’s name with that of God to give the man credit for the liberation of North African Jewry

The scholar who defied odds to unveil the treasures of the Cairo Genizah - Book Review

Stefan Reif brings post-World War II Edinburgh to life, conveying in indelible verbal images that are unstintingly honest what conditions were like in that bygone era for a child of Jewish immigrants

EZEKIEL 34:2225, from a manuscript with Babylonian vocalization from the Cairo Genizah.

Church of England sorry for prayer booklet that resembles Passover Haggadah

The Church pulled the booklet offline and trashed a video it had intended to release ahead of Maudy Thursday.

The Church of England General Synod in London 370 (R)

Passover: The history of Haggadah art, and how the illustrators worked

The Passover Haggadah almost always has pictorial illustrations without which it would be a quite different and less exciting book.

THE ARTHUR SZYK (1894-1951) Haggadah opens with ‘The Family at the Seder’ (1935) Lodz, Poland.

Passover: The Haggadah's messages for coronavirus

The search for hametz is paralleled by the search for COVID-19. Without the search where would we be?

LONELY SEDER: Arranging the 2020 Passover table with pictures of children and grandchildren standing in for the real thing.

The history of ancient Jewish texts and the stories they tell

From St. Petersburg manuscripts to the Washington Haggadah.

PROF. SHIMON IAKERSON was unable to access higher education in the USSR and learned Hebrew on his own.