A reported White House plan, announced May 4, to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the former prison on an island off San Francisco ...

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. It is considered ...

Spring is here, even if it doesn’t feel like it, which means Passover is just around the corner. It’s one of the most important Jewish holidays of the year. Passover, or “Pesach” in Hebrew, is ...

Jewish families will gather for Passover this year in circumstances that will, like the celebration itself, reflect on dark times while looking ahead toward better ones to come. The first two ...

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Passover in 2024 begins at sundown on Monday, April 22, and ends at sundown on Tuesday, April 30, for most Jewish people. Jews in Israel and some sects in the diaspora end Passover at sundown on ...

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In the state that bore witness to the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history in 2018 at the Tree of Life Synagogue ...

THOUGH PASSOVER IS over, the lessons and themes continue to resonate. Two themes permeate Judaism … freedom and empathy seen in the story of the Exodus from Egypt.

This is who was elected pope. As archbishop of Buenos Aires, then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio attended Rosh Hashanah ...