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Pic: ITV
May 1, 2024, 12:50 pm
ITV documentary takes a Pesach journey across Britain
Presenter Sam Holder travelled more than 1,200 miles across the country to celebrate the festival with eight families.
By Michelle Rosenberg
Passover Cafe, University of Surrey, April 2024
April 29, 2024, 3:51 pm
University launches pop up Pesach cafe
Festival marked by unique initiative at Surrey campus
By Michelle Rosenberg
Aden, Yemen - Passover ceremony at the main Rabbi's house in Aden, 1949. Photo by Fred Chesnick, KKL-JNF Archive.
April 24, 2024, 3:08 pm
Archive reveals photos of Passover celebrations from Israel’s first decades
Keren Kayemet LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) reveals rare images depicting how the celebration of Passover was observed in young Israel, between 1940-1980
By Michelle Rosenberg
Pic: EJacobs Photography
April 21, 2024, 8:07 pm
Rishi Sunak: 7 October has left empty seats at the Seder table for too many families
In his Pesach message the prime minister says his thoughts are with 'those who lost loved ones in the Hamas terror atrocity'
By Lee Harpin
The Haggadah reader Hashata Hakha (This Year We Are Here) and Rabbi Lara Haft Yom-Tov
April 19, 2024, 5:03 pm
Masorti rabbi calls Israeli politicians war criminals in ‘justice-oriented’ Haggadah supplement
EXCLUSIVE: New North London’s Lara Haft Yom-Tov writes that at seder, ‘the same war criminals who have forced Palestinian families to flee their homes will lift up their matzah and wax poetic about the Israelites’ rush to escape Egypt’
By Michelle Rosenberg
April 12, 2024, 2:59 pm
Why our four cups of wine may taste a little different this Pesach
The struggle for freedom is more challenging than ever and we should drink Israeli wine at our seder
By Tal Sunderland-Cohen
Pic: United Synagogue
April 10, 2024, 1:37 pm
United Synagogue raises £570k for Pesach Chesed appeal
Thousands of people to receive support thanks to successful matched giving campaign
By Michelle Rosenberg
Uyghur Muslims held in 're-education' camps in north west China
April 9, 2024, 10:31 am
OPINION: Why I’m focused on the Uyghur genocide this Passover
‘We as Jews do not have the option to focus only inward,’ writes Rabbi Dr Shmuly Yanklowitz
By Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz
Collecting Pesach food for Jewish families, March 2023. United Synagogue Chesed
April 3, 2024, 11:33 am
Cost of living crisis means thousands still rely on food parcels
United Synagogue has delivered around 7,000 welfare bundles to 800 families in the last 12 months
By Michelle Rosenberg
Protesters carry a banner portraying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as pharoah, reading 'Let my people go,' in Tel Aviv. Credit: Tomer Appelbaum, Haaretz
April 12, 2023, 11:36 am
OPINION: A Pesach to remember, but it’s for all the wrong reasons
The only thing predictable about Israel these days is its total unpredictably, writes Jenni Frazer in Tel Aviv for Jewish News
By Jenni Frazer
Nisa Nashim members at South Hampstead synagogue. Pic: Yakir Zur
April 5, 2023, 3:35 pm
OPINION: Come together, right now, over prayer and celebration
As Ramadan, Passover and Easter coincide over one weekend, Laura Marks says it offers a real opportunity to connect with neighbours of other faiths
By Laura Marks
April 5, 2023, 9:44 am
PODCAST: Guess who’s coming to seder…
Jewish News editor Richard Ferrer chats with David Roth in new Pesach podcast series from Anu, The Museum of The Jewish People.
Jewish News publicised Labour leader Keir Starmer attending a mock seder for new Pesach video
April 5, 2023, 8:59 am
WATCH: Keir Starmer filmed attending mock seder with Jewish healthcare professionals
EXCLUSIVE: In a new video released by the party ahead of Passover, the Labour participates in a seder, at which one guest suggests the NHS is 'feeling the effects of 13 years of brutal underfunding'
By Lee Harpin
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April 4, 2023, 1:08 pm
OPINION: Pesach re-imagined thanks to Little Amal, global symbol of human rights
How a 12-foot puppet of a Syrian refugee child inspired me, writes JW3's Raymond Simonson.
By Raymond Simonson
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks speaks at TED2017 - The Future You, April 24-28, 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Photo: Ryan Lash / TED
March 28, 2023, 3:38 pm
The Rabbi Sacks’ Legacy launches new Passover activity
Charity honouring the ideas and teachings of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks launches interactive scavenger hunt for adults and teens to explore significance of Pesach
By Michelle Rosenberg
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