My Mother’s Three Seders
Ask The Rabbis | Should Jews at the Seder Ask God to Smite Our Enemies?
Theodore Bikel’s Las Vegas Passover
We were in Las Vegas (and had been for five months!), where I was appearing twice nightly at Caesar’s Palace in Fiddler. The only possible time for our seder was at 2 a.m.
Alan Alda’s Passover
“Passover’s like Thanksgiving. People sit around and eat and drink and tell stories, are glad to be alive.”
The Passion of Passover
At the Passover seder, Jews across the world retell the greatest love story of all time: the story of what happened when God fell in love.
Einstein’s Hidden Spirituality
Biographers typically describe Einstein as a man who disdained Jewish rituals. But what if we have been given an incomplete picture of Einstein’s spirituality?
From the Editor // March/April 2015
The ground is lurching beneath the feet of European Jews, with anti-Semitism rising up around them. We American Jews are rightly concerned at this alarming turn of events. We fear the spread of this new, especially virulent form of anti-Semitism to our own shores. We feel disgusted but helpless. What can we do?