Passover News Archives

Baby learns to soar with the help of Johnny Castle While it would be one of many of my nominees, this affectionate appreciation from Julie Klausner might persuade others to vote for Dirty Dancing as what the author calls "most Jewishest movie." In honor of the High Holidays, let Jewish and Gentile cinephiles offer their thoughts on the subject.

According to the September 20th Los Angeles Times article "Afghan Jew a one-man upholder of tradition" by Mark Magnier reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, Zebulon Simantov says he is the last Jew in Afghanistan.

Is there no limit to the wiles of those dastardly anti-Semites? Now they have decided to slander the Jews with another blood libel.

The autumn equinox of September 21 in the occult world is when the god of darkness begins to overcome the god of light.

A Superior Court judge facing a formal complaint over a joke an attorney interpreted as anti-Semitic told a judicial conduct panel this week that his comments actually were made in an effort to be religiously sensitive.

Many of the recipes come from Brody's 95-year-old mother Millie Apter. The actual food preparation is shared by Brody and two of her three sons: Max and Sam, who tends bar and waits tables at his brother's eatery.

There is a story told of a sage whose disciples came to visit him one evening. Though a light shone through the front window, no one answered the knock on the door.

At some point, amid battling a drug addiction and childhood memories of molestation, Shua Finkelstein wrote a letter.

Among the many Jewish holidays, Rosh Hashanah is probably second only to Passover as a time when Jews most embrace the clichA© "you are what you eat." The emphasis on the symbolism of specific foods on this holiday is well-known: honey represents our hopes for a sweet year ahead, a round challah for a perfect year, a fish head represents the ...

FROM AS far back as Elyahkeem Ben Yehuda can remember, his father talked about returning to the Promised Land.

The other day President Obama issued a special message to the Muslim world for the annual Ramadan holiday.

It's a crucial standardized test that determines whether Florida students pass or fail a grade.

All parents have heard the standard instructions from teachers to make sure their children are in school and well-rested on FCAT testing days.