How does the Exodus story, Judaism’s foundational narrative of freedom, speak to the present? We asked local leaders, including rabbis, educators and podcasters, to weigh in.
As the Iranian people yearn for their liberation, a reflection on the improbable connection between ancient Persian civilization and the Jewish holiday of freedom.
This year, rather than focusing just on the seder, maybe consider how you and your family might incorporate even just one more element of Jewish tradition into your lives during the eight days of the holiday.
The world’s most influential moral and religious traditions rest, in part, on a people who refused to disappear.
The Jewish tradition of transforming scarcity into abundance, and Israel’s journey from a barren desert to a beacon of global achievement, are miracles forged by vision, perseverance, and an enduring belief in possibility.
Eighty-one years ago, while America was at war and millions of Jews were being slaughtered, the rabbi of the Washington Hebrew Congregation delivered a Hanukkah message that resonates to this day.
This is unmistakably a Jewish story: the mother is no preacher of martyrdom.
This Hanukkah, may all of us find liberation.
It’s only through fully recognizing our individualism that we can be unified as a people. And it’s only through nourishing the soul that the bravery, nonconformity, and the true spirit and resilience of the Maccabees can be achieved.
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