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There’s always that moment before the Seder begins when everything looks perfect.

The table is set. The matzah is covered. The first cup of wine is poured. For about three minutes, it feels like this might actually be a calm, meaningful…

Pesach is our festival of freedom. It is a time for celebration and for hope, a time to appreciate our blessings and to dream of a perfected world.

But not all of the Pesach seder is sweet. A key moment in the ceremony is eating the bitter…

On December 26, 2025, Israel formally recognized the Republic of Somaliland, becoming the first United Nations member state to do so. The decision marked a significant realignment in the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa and signaled a…

They were an observant people, the early Christians of Antiochia Hippos. They may even have had a stage in their baptism process that has been lost to memory, surmise archaeologists studying a strange artifact found in a cathedral in the city…

In many Israeli homes this year, the Passover Seder will unfold against the backdrop of yet another war for survival. For Israel’s bereaved families, the night is not only about tradition. It is about absence. With sirens once again…

We like to imagine freedom as a moment of triumph, a sea splitting, a people rising, chains breaking with a loud and final crack. And yet, when we sit down at the Seder table, we do not begin with power. We do not begin with miracles. We…

Four years after the release of my documentary Baltic Truth—a film I made alone, practically without the backing of any major Jewish organization, on a budget I scraped together myself—the evidence keeps confirming the thesis….

At the Passover-Seder Jews eat maror (bitter herbs) which reminds us of the bitterness of Jews being slaves in Egypt. A few days ago (on March 25) the Israeli Ambassador at the UN voted against the resolution calling slavery a crime against…

The Bookends of Redemption: From the Bread of Affliction to the City of Peace

The Haggadah Shel Pesach, the script for our annual dramatic reflection on the Exodus from Egypt, is more than a loosely linked set of steps touching on one or…

Because the answer is so clear, I do not propose to engage in an extended analysis.  Speaking to Canadians is boring. Listening to Canadians is monotonous and pedestrian. Reviewing the history of Canada is like watching paint dry. …