Top Passover Traditions, Explained
How to Celebrate Passover: The Seder Meal & More Passover 2024, the eight-day festival where the Jewish people remember and retell the Exodus story, begins at sundown on Monday, April 22. For many people, Passover (or Pesach in Hebrew) is their favorite Jewish holiday because it is a time for gathering with friends and family from […]
Setting Your Passover Table: Essential Items & Seder How-To
The Passover Seder is the main event of Passover, a ritual-filled festive meal that is held in Jewish homes on the first (and outside of Israel also on the second) night of the holiday. During this meal, the story of the Jewish People’s liberation from slavery in Egypt is retold and relived by the whole […]
Everything You Need to Know About the Dead Sea Scrolls
In the spring of 1947, a Bedouin goat-herder stumbled upon a cave full of jars filled with mysterious ancient manuscripts. Little did he know that he had just made the greatest archeological discovery of modern times – the Dead Sea Scrolls! Between 1947 and 1956, excavations would uncover manuscripts from eleven different caves on the […]
The Special Significance of ‘Am Yisrael Chai’
The phrase “Am Yisrael Chai” can be translated as “The People of Israel Live” or “The Nation of Israel Lives,” and has both Jewish and Zionist meanings. Today it’s also used as a patriotic phrase, as an equivalent of “Long Live Israel.” The word “Chai” – meaning life, living, or alive – itself has […]
