Here's what to know about Passover, when Passover 2026 begins and ends, and a calendar of when other Jewish holidays land in 2026.

Passover and Easter both fall in April 2026. Here’s when they begin and why they are significant religious observances.

The first parsha of Vayikra (also called Vayikra) introduce the system of sacrifices, or korbanot. The Hebrew word for sacrifice, korban (קרבן), comes from the root ק־ר־ב, meaning “to come near.” A ...

The first three verses in Hosea 4 make quite an indictment against the Israelites. God makes a three-fold charge against His people based on the broken covenant — no truth, ...

For the people of Israel, freedom is not the open skies—a world of unlimited and unguarded possibilities. It is the hot and dry slog through the desert, full of prickly rules and regulations.

The Hebrew phrase ezer kenegdo (עֵזֶר כְּנֶגְדּוֹ) appears in the Torah, the Hebrew Bible, in Genesis 2:18 and 20, when the Bible speaks of the creation of Eve, the wife of Adam. The words are not ...

The seder presents something of a challenge for wine pairings because you’re tasting so many wildly disparate things. Hard-boiled egg? Matzah? Charoset? Each of those on its own has a perfect pairing, ...

In this episode, we go deep inside the world of the Black Israelites to hear their beliefs directly from them. What starts as curiosity quickly turns into intense conversations about race, religion, ...

In the year 1845, as the US was about to annex Texas and the territory of Oregon, an America writer, John O rsquo;Sullivan, coined the phrase Manifest Destiny to describe a belief that the US was ...

An upcoming online event organized by American Jewish University (AJU) will explore diverse traditions and the ways they ...

While we, too, may be drawn to fix upon the spectacular nature of this final miracle, which brings life back to a dead person ...

But spiritually, they speak to something very close to the human psyche. When we carry guilt, gratitude, longing, or hope without expression, these emotions can remain trapped within our psyche. The ...