The closing invocation of the traditional seder is l’shana ha-ba’ah b’Yerushalayim (“Next year in Jerusalem”). It’s sung...
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The Ma Nishtanah page from the Sarajevo Haggadah (source: Talmud.de) To all my Jewish readers I wish...

UPDATE: KBCS will rebroadcast this show this Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 7PM. To listen live to...

During the height of the Lebanon war, I was grasping for ways one might formulate an alternate,...

Chava Alberstein is one Israel’s greatest musical performers whose career has spanned 40 years and more. She...

The European Jewish Press describes how one of the most storied and endangered of Jewish books, the...

Brad Burston has written yet another lucid, compelling and compassionate essay in Haaretz on the common threads...

A struggle rages in Congress between a bi-partisan group of moderates and liberals seeking a fair-minded, compassionate...

Hazzan Issac Azoze is the emeritus cantor of Seattle’s Congregation Ezra Besarroth, a community of Jews from...

Hebrew slaves building the pyramids (source: Chandlerschool.org) With demonstrations today in New York, Seattle (where I live)...

Max Helfman was a choral conductor and Jewish educator born in Poland. There his father had been...

David Moss haggadah illustration (source: Library.yale.edu) I’m a sucker for the Passover seder. There are many reasons....