Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jews eat unleavened bread or "matzo" during the celebratory Jewish festival, according to britannica.com. Many Jews abstain from ...

Passover, or "Pesach" in Hebrew, is one of the Jewish religion’s "most sacred and widely observed holidays," notes History.com. Passover commemorates the Israelites’ departure from ancient Egypt, ...

Passover is typically celebrated with a feast called a seder on the first evening of the holiday, though some may extend seders to the second evening of Passover as well. While everyone's individual ...

April marks one of the most significant holidays on the Jewish calendar: Passover. Passover, or "Pesach" in Hebrew, is an eight-day (or seven in Israel) celebration that commemorates the Jewish people ...

Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner has spent over a decade working as a writer in New York City. She currently covers all aspects of food, dining, travel and lifestyle trends and the intersection of culture, ...

Monday night, as Passover begins, Jews around the world celebrate their ancestors’ liberation from slavery in ancient Egypt. That liberty was hardly cost-free. Participants in the Seder will recount ...

James Deutsch | Senior Content Coordinator, Smithsonian’s America at 250 Book Project The eight-day Jewish holiday of Passover (Pesach) begins this year after sundown on Wednesday. The first night’s ...

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 ...