Whether or not you're hosting Passover festivities this year, we've got you covered, with tips on making delicious Passover-friendly desserts, perfect matzo, or the entire Seder meal. For novices, there's advice on how to attend a Seder, wear a kippah, keep kosher, and more.
The Jewish holiday Passover, or Pesach, commemorates the Hebrews' exodus from Egypt. It begins with a traditional dinner called a seder on the first night, when the Exodus tale is retold.
It’s one of the rituals of spring if you have a lot of Jewish friends: the annual seder invitation. Here's what not to do if you want to keep that friendship alive.
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A seder is a ceremonial dinner service usually observed on the first or first and second nights of the Jewish holiday Passover. It's also a joyful occasion to gather with friends and family!
Kosher means proper as related to kashrut, or Jewish dietary law. Based on scripture and rabbinic scholarship, the laws are extremely complex, but here are the fundamentals.
In Judaism, men customarily cover their heads with a skullcap as a sign of humility before God, though it is not mandated by law. In Hebrew, it is called a kippah; in Yiddish, a yarmulke. In Europe, the custom dates…