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Haggadah

A still image from the now-removed music video for the song 'Notnim Yadayim' ('Lending Hands'), which was included in the IDF Rabbinate's 2026 Passover Haggadah, portrays a reservist's wife buying groceries wither her child as tanks stand in the background. (IDF Rabbinate)
April 11, 2026, 1:58 pm
IDF removes clip of Passover song slammed as ‘medley of contempt’ for women in military
Tune featured in army rabbinate’s Haggadah celebrates reservist’s wife who loads groceries as her husband loads artillery; IDF says its publication did not follow guidelines
By ToI Staff and Stav Levaton
Jewish thinkers, giants in their fields. From left to right: Moshe Davis, Mordecai Kaplan (center) and Hillel Bavli (Inset from an image courtesy of the Mordecai Kaplan Center)
April 6, 2026, 8:53 am
How an upstart rabbi was excommunicated over his prayer book for a ‘new US Judaism’
Mordecai Kaplan’s vision of a unified, reconstructed religion for American Jews was plagued by backlash but launched a new denomination. Now he’s the subject of a new biography
By Rich Tenorio
TOI’s Rossella Tercatin and Jessica Steinberg, superimposed over Andy Warhol’s Mao Zedong painting series at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art on display in Tehran, Iran, Oct. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
April 2, 2026, 1:27 pm
Daily Briefing April 2: Picassos and other veiled masterpieces in Iran
Archaeology and religions reporter Rossella Tercatin reports on art collection amassed by Queen Farah Pahlavi and a Passover Haggadah that examines influence of Egyptian culture
By Jessica Steinberg and Rossella Tercatin
Alon Gildoni, left, and Ron Milo are the creators of 'Haggadah on the Map,' which traces the Israelites' journey as recounted in the Passover story. (Courtesy Alon Gildoni via JTA)
April 1, 2026, 4:34 pm
For Passover, an interactive map brings the haggadah down to earth
Product management expert Alon Gildoni and Weizmann Institute professor Ron Milo turn a seder table question into an interactive tool that traces the Exodus story across real-world locations
By Grace Gilson
Detail from the cover of 'Echoes of Egypt: A Haggada,' curated by Bar-Ilan University Prof. Joshua Berman and published by Koren. The image on the cover shows a relief of Pharaoh Seti I (13th century BCE) and the goddess Hathor 'face to face,' from the tomb of Sethi I. (Koren)
April 1, 2026, 4:32 pm
How the Exodus story subverts pharaonic texts to mock ancient Egypt
According to Bar-Ilan University’s Joshua Berman, who curated the new hagaddah ‘Echoes of Egypt,’ the biblical narrative ‘culturally appropriates’ facets of Egyptian culture — by design
By Rossella Tercatin
Moss Haggadah presented to the National Library of Israel, August 2024. Shown (L to R): National Library chairman Sallai Meridor, artist David Moss, with donors Trudy Elbaum Gottesman and Bob Gottesman. (Dor Pazuelo)
April 9, 2025, 8:04 am
Iconic gold-encrusted Haggadah goes on display in Jerusalem for the first time
Original manuscript of the renowned Passover text created by artist David Moss is exhibited at the National Library of Israel
By Rossella Tercatin
Dara Horn's latest book is a graphic novel featuring a time-traveling talking goat. (Norton Young Readers via JTA)
April 6, 2025, 2:46 am
Dara Horn’s gonzo, time-traveling children’s Passover book wants people to love living Jews
The author of bestseller ‘People Love Dead Jews’ takes readers to the seder tables of historically iconic Jews such as Sigmund Freud in ‘One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
The cover of 'The Haggadah of Freedom' produced by the Hostages Forum for Passover 2025 with texts by hostage family members (Courtesy Hostages Forum)
April 4, 2025, 4:03 pm
Hostages’ families yearn and mourn in new Passover Haggadahs
‘I have to hold onto something that gives me hope,’ says hostage Nimrod Cohen’s mother, who illustrated a children’s Haggadah
By Jessica Steinberg
The so-called Afghan Liturgical Quire, a codex some believe is the oldest Jewish book in existence. (Museum of the Bible)
September 25, 2024, 7:44 am
Museum of the Bible unveils newly dated ‘oldest Jewish book’
Museum says 5-inch by 5-inch codex, including prayers, poems and Haggadah, is relic from Jewish minority in 8th century Afghanistan
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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April 22, 2024, 3:50 pm
It’s About Time: 104 dimensions of time during Passover
Passover: Integrating our past, present, and future – and wondering about a Creator who transcends time itself.
By Bryan Schwartz
Illustrative: Two women, one of them wrapped in an Israeli flag, help to set the 'The Empty Seder Table,’ with 133 chairs and place settings, representing hostages still being held in Gaza by Hamas, in front of Downing Street in London, Britain, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
April 22, 2024, 1:39 pm
‘In every generation:’ Haggadah supplements put October 7 reckoning on Seder plate
Additions to traditional tract allow holiday celebrants to grapple with trauma of terror and ongoing hostage crisis casting shadow on festival of freedom
By JTA and ToI Staff
Liat Beinin Atzili, who was released after being held hostage by the Hamas terror group following the October 7 onslaught, speaks as Israelis gather for a Passover ceremony and to call for the immediate release of the remaining hostages, on Kibbutz Nir Oz, April 11, 2024. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)
April 21, 2024, 4:21 pm
For many Israelis this Passover, celebrating the Festival of Freedom feels impossible
The first major holiday since the devastating Oct. 7 massacre will be marked by some with an empty seat at the seder table in honor of the many hostages still held in Gaza
By Deborah Danan
The Haggadah reader Hashata Hakha (This Year We Are Here) and Rabbi Lara Haft Yom-Tov (Via UK Jewish News)
From the WebApril 20, 2024, 6:37 pm
In Haggadah supplement, UK rabbi calls Israeli politicians war criminals
Lara Haft Yom-Tov’s essay forms part of ‘justice-oriented Haggadah’ attacking Israel’s conduct in the war against Hamas in Gaza, UK Jewish News reports
Among the new Haggadahs to be published in 2024 are several for families and one for Star Wars fans. (Collage by Mollie Suss/JTA)
April 16, 2024, 7:04 am
Inside 10 new Haggadahs for 2024: US and Israel take their places at the Seder table
As Jews around the world celebrate the first Passover since Oct. 7, some of these Seder guides touch on politics, while others feature humor, history and Hollywood stars
By PHILISSA CRAMER and Penny Schwartz
FILE - Taylor Swift arrives at an NFL wild-card playoff football game between the Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024, in Kansas City, Missouri. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga, File)
April 11, 2024, 12:12 pm
Jewish mother writes Taylor Swift-themed Haggadah book for Passover
Author Na’ama Ben-David says idea for ‘Unofficial Taylor Swift Haggadah’ came from daughter who noted parallels between Book of Exodus and pop star’s lyrics
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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