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The afikomen is a piece of matzah that's eaten as the food at the Passover seder, after the festive meal is finished. It's designated at the beginning of the seder, when the seder leader takes the ...

Display the seder plate and hide the afikomen – Passover begins this week. Passover, or Pesach, is a major Jewish holiday during the month of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar, usually falling in March or ...

How smart were our forebears? Without a single pad, pod or phone, indeed back when the only angry birds were the ones wondering who got the worm first, our elders figured out a way to keep children ...

Ah, Passover. The Jewish holiday that epitomizes them all: a formal meal (the seder), family flying in from all over the place, copious amounts of drinking (four glasses of wine!), and traditions ...

Wednesday is the start of Passover. This year, like lots of Jews, I’m organizing an online Seder. (There’ll be Hillel sandwich screenshots, Ten Plagues emoji, and screen-shared singalong slides with ...

Attorney General Bill Barr has announced that he will release Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report — albeit redacted — on Thursday, the day before both Passover and Good Friday. While musing on ...

While there are any number of reasons suggested for the ritual of taking the afikomen, ultimately it is linked with the notion of engaging our children in order to keep them awake throughout the Seder ...