Simon Deng may not be Jewish, but he knows what it’s like to be held captive: he was kidnapped, tortured and kept in slavery ...

Passover, the "holiday of freedom", is also the "holiday of Spring" in the Torah - and is "the Spring of the entire world" in the words of Rav Avraham Yitschak HaCohen Hook, Israel's first chief rabbi ...

All the Palestinian Arabs had to do in Gaza after 2005's Disengagement was make unto themselves a nation. You’d think Moses ...

If we are a nation that sees itself as a family, let us remember those families that have carried such a heavy burden ...

Known as "Pesach" in Hebrew, Passover commemorates pivotal events in the Book of Exodus. Jews celebrate the freeing of ...

As Jews around the world prepare for Passover, we ready ourselves to tell our ancient story about suffering and liberation, ...

The Passover story decries a ruler who inflicts atrocities on children. The Israeli military is doing that now in Gaza.

At the Seder, Jews retell the story of Moses challenging Egypt’s Pharaoh to “let my people go,” and the escape from bondage by reading a Haggadah (special prayer book for Passover ...

The holiday is usually a celebration of the liberation of ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt. But for many Israelis, ...

The word "Zionist" has lost its meaning, and its usefulness. This Passover, it's time to find language that reflects our contemporary world.