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Many years ago at a Passover Seder, one of the guests raised a difficulty in the Torah’s account of the Exodus that he felt was insolvable. None of the answers offered to him satisfied him. Over the ...

The seder night is jam packed with mitzvot and traditions that mainly focus on eating and speaking. Eating the Pesach sacrifice, matza, maror, karpas, and charoset; along with drinking 4 cups of wine.

When it comes to matzo, Chicago chef Laura Frankel says hers is a love-hate relationship. “Matza and I are frenemies,” she says of the unleavened bread. “On one hand, matza is a food you want to be ...

As a lifelong New England Patriots fan, this has been a painful week. I won’t go into all the details of the so called “Deflate-gate,” some of which are widely known and many of which are as yet ...

At Safed’s Ziv Medical Center, the Passover festival brought an unexpected interfaith experience. The hospital, like others in Israel’s north, has been treating Syrian civilians wounded in that ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The tailgating started early for one Philadelphia Eagles fan. Really early. Gregg Matza of Northeast Philadelphia was the first to arrive at Lincoln Financial Field Thursday ...