Torah

This Passover, we must remember to cherish our freedom

Our sages sought to highlight this idea by naming the holiday in our prayers as Zman Cheiruteinu, the Season of Our Freedom.

By SHAI FINKELSTEIN
19/04/2025

Passover 2025: A ‘midrashic’ lesson for these days

In light of this agonizing and ongoing reality, a quote from the midrash can be a challenge to embrace, as it forces us to think and look outward at our enemies in a different light.

Passover 2025: Crossing your own Red Sea

We all face Red Seas in one form or another. But the good news is that just as God parted the waters for our forefathers when they left Egypt, He can part them for us as well.

123 orphan boys celebrate their Bar Mitzvah at the Western Wall

The war has left hundreds of Israeli families bereaved, and thousands of children facing life without their fathers. This year’s Colel Chabad Bar Mitzvah carried extra weight for boys who lost it all

The Passover seder is a model for healing democracies in peril

What the Exodus teaches us about democracy, power, and shared national purpose.

By RABBI MEESH HAMMER-KOSSOY
08/04/2025
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