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Passover in isolation dampens holiday mood in Israel
JERUSALEM (AP) - Each year, Patricia Sheetrit and her family gather with in-laws for the first night of Passover, bringing together some 20 people for the holiday’s main event, the festive meal known...
View ArticleWyoming congregations maintain community amid distancing
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) - The “God is Love” sign that weighed “like, I don’t know - 400 pounds” was pulled from the Rev. Jimmy Bartz’s garage early Sunday morning.“Our garage is like Jesus’ resurrection...
View ArticleIn Morocco, tiny Jewish community grapples with virus
When the phone rang on the second day of Passover, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Levi Banon figured it must be an emergency. Electronic devices were prohibited during the holiday. Any call must be urgent. It...
View ArticleAP PHOTOS: At a kosher food maker, a special Passover run
HICKSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - On a food production floor on Long Island, steam rises from a blue metal barrel filled with scalding water for dipping cooking implements, and a worker runs boiling water...
View ArticleIsraelis gather for Passover, celebrating freedom from virus
JERUSALEM (AP) - A year ago, Giordana Grego's parents spent Passover at home in Israel, alone but grateful that they had escaped the worst of the pandemic in Italy. This year, the whole family will get...
View ArticleIsrael government loses majority as religious lawmaker quits
JERUSALEM (AP) — A lawmaker quit Israel’s ruling coalition on Wednesday after a dispute over religious observance during the Passover holiday, throwing the fragile alliance into disarray without a...
View ArticleFor Jews fleeing Ukraine, Passover takes on new meaning
“Good morning! Happy morning!” Rabbi Avraham Wolff exclaimed, with a big smile, as he walked into the Chabad synagogue in Odesa on a recent morning.Russian missiles had just struck an oil refinery in...
View ArticleHandmade 'watched' matzah a hot Passover 2022 commodity; Lubavitchers set...
ST. GEORGE, UTAH — A special kind of unleavened bread is being readied for distribution in a quiet corner of southern Utah, where the local rabbi estimates as many as 2,000 Jews live among a population...
View ArticleClashes erupt at Jerusalem holy site; 152 Palestinians hurt
JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians clashed with Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem before dawn on Friday as thousands gathered for prayers during the holy month of Ramadan. Medics...
View ArticleClashes erupt again near flashpoint Jerusalem holy site
JERUSALEM — Israeli police on Sunday entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City to secure the way for Jewish visitors to the flashpoint holy site, fueling clashes that left 17...
View ArticleGaza violence intensifies as Jerusalem clashes resume
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s air force and Palestinian militants traded fire across the Gaza frontier early Thursday as clashes erupted again at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, worsening an...
View ArticleAt many Passover Seders, social unrest in Israel will be on the table
NEW YORK — Marc Slutsky has been leading Passover Seders for 40 years, taking on troubling issues that have included Soviet Jewry, racism in the United States, and war after war after war.This year,...
View ArticleMessianic rabbi offers lessons for Christians in Jewish Passover ritual
A Messianic Jewish rabbi says many Christians don’t fully understand the connections between the Jewish observance of Passover and the Last Supper of Jesus and the Disciples — and he aims to illuminate...
View ArticleViolence at holy Jerusalem site raises tension over holidays
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police stormed into the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City early Wednesday, firing stun grenades at Palestinian youths who hurled stones and firecrackers at them in a burst...
View ArticleInside the Beltway: Trump legal woes covered extensively by MSM; Biden...
What would the news media do without former President Donald Trump? He is always a reliable source of provocative content, at least for a trio of national broadcasters.The Big Three networks — ABC,...
View ArticlePennsylvania's Senate wants an earlier 2024 presidential primary, partly to...
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania's state Senate approved a bill Wednesday to move up the state's 2024 primary election by five weeks to March 19, aiming to avoid a conflict with the Jewish holiday of...
View ArticleMatzo Buttercrunch earns a place on the Passover dessert table
On Passover, dessert options can feel limited. No leavened foods are allowed, so the usual recipes for cakes, cookies and the like are off the table (literally).Flourless desserts and/or desserts made...
View ArticleChildren learn matzo making and Passover's traditions ahead of the Jewish...
ROCKVILLE, Md. — The group of first graders had no time to waste — they had matzo to make.The students from Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital had just 18 minutes to prep and...
View ArticlePassover in Israel during war with Hamas and Iran
The nights of Passover are different from all other nights, and this year even more so. Your Jewish neighbors will soon gather to recall their ancestors’ liberation from ancient Egypt and the start of...
View ArticleWar, hostages, antisemitism: A somber backdrop to this year's Passover...
Passover is a major Jewish holiday, celebrated over seven or eight days each year, commemorating the exodus of ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt, as recounted in the Bible. To many Jews, it...
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