Pesach

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Re-examining Maggid in Light of Tehillim (Part 1) - From 10 plagues to 250!

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag

Audio
Apr 3, 2022

Mermelstein-A Timeless Ritual Through the Lens of a Historian (Part 2) - Did the Wise Son Own a Haggadah?

Dr. Ari Mermelstein

Audio
Mar 30, 2022

Making Passover American (Part 2) - The "King of Egypt" and the Sermonic Makings of Evildoers

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

Audio
Mar 28, 2022

A Timeless Ritual Through the Lens of a Historian (Part 1) - Between a Traumatic Past and a Hopeful Future

Dr. Ari Mermelstein

Audio
Mar 23, 2022

Making Passover American (Part 1) - Passover Peanut Oil and the Making of an American Humra

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

Audio
Mar 21, 2022

e-TiM: A Timeless Ritual Through the Lens of a Historian (Pesach)

Dr. Ari Mermelstein

This three-part series will take place on Wednesdays at 11:00am Eastern The narrative of the Ten Plagues is the most well-known episode in the Jewish collective memory, and the Pesach seder is perhaps the most widely-celebrated Jewish ritual. Join…
Program
Mar 10, 2022

e-TiM: Yosef and the Ten Plagues

Rabbi Avrum Kowalsky

This three-part series will take place on Mondays at 11:00am Eastern,  5:00pm in Israel on March 21, 6:00pm March 28 and April 4  March 21: Yosef's Final Dream March 28: Serving the Feudal Lord April 4: Plagues: Why Do I Care How Many?
Program
Mar 10, 2022

e-TiM: Making Passover American

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

This three-part series will take place on Mondays at 1:00pm Eastern March 21: Passover Peanut Oil and the Making of an American Humra Planter's Peanut Oil was America's "Passover Oil" while Lithuanian-trained rabbis led American Orthodoxy. In the…
Program
Mar 10, 2022

e-TiM: Re-examining Maggid in Light of Tehillim

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag

This two-part series will take place on Sundays at 11:15am Eastern, 6:15pm in Israel April 3: Tehillim 105 - The First Siddur or The First Hagaddah? April 10: Tehillim 78 - From 10 Plagues to 250!
Program
Mar 9, 2022

A Visual Journey Through the Haggadah

Dr. Adam S. Cohen

Produced in thousands of editions with new versions published every year, the Pesach Haggadah is probably the most illustrated book in Jewish history. Yet many Haggadah users ignore the rich potential that pictures have for adding to the seder…
Program
Apr 8, 2021