Passover began on April 12 and will continue through the upcoming weekend. Passover is a Jewish holiday during the month of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. It usually falls on a day in March or April.

The 23rd annual Jewish Music Festival started today in Jewish communities throughout the nation with more than 2, 000 religious, cultural, educational, fraternal and women’s organizations ...

After the Seder, sometime around midnightwhen everyone has said the grace after meals, the singing begins. People break out tunes like, “Echad Mi Yodea (Who Knows One)” and “Let My People Go.” For ...

Cantor Josh Breitzer was taught to think of prayer music like a mountain. So when he and Cantor Rollin Simmons developed their plans for the year’s final Passover service at Congregation Emanu El, ...

Passover is when families retell the story of the Jewish people's exodus from slavery in Egypt. It begins with a festive meal known as the Seder. During the holiday, Jews do not eat leavened bread.

According to the Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center, Passover — also known as Pesach in Hebrew — represents God passing over Jewish homes when He killed the Egyptian firstborn during the eve of the first ...

The holidays of Easter and Passover intersect this weekend, and there are some egg hunts and a talk focusing largely on the more festive part of the Christian holiday, while a film festival offers ...

Israeli Jews prepare to celebrate Passover — the holiday which marks freedom from bondage — with more than 100 captives still in Gaza. The Jewish holiday Passover begins tonight at sundown. All over ...