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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 573

Passover Seder

101-year-old Hilbert Margol, a World War II veteran who served in the US Army's 42nd Infantry Division, which liberated Dachau. (Benjamin Mack-Jackson)
April 14, 2025, 3:47 pm
101-year-old WWII veteran recalls US Army’s seder night, weeks before liberating Dachau
Hilbert Margol still regularly speaks about the atrocities he saw firsthand at the notorious Nazi concentration camp as a young US soldier: ‘We didn’t understand what we were seeing’
By Benjamin Mack-Jackson
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro pauses during a news conference at the governor's official residence discussing the alleged arson that forced him, his family and guests to flee in the middle of the night on Passover, Apr. 13, 2025, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (AP/Marc Levy)
April 14, 2025, 4:53 am
After Passover arson attack, PA’s Jewish governor vows to keep ‘proudly celebrating’ faith
Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro says suspect arrested but motive unknown, following attack on room where he had held Seder with community members hours earlier
By Marc Levy
Israelis hold a Passover seder at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on April 12, 2025. (Dana Reany/Hostages Family Forum)
April 12, 2025, 11:03 am
Families of captives hold Passover Seder at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square
Second festival of freedom since Oct. 7 comes as Israel submits softened proposal to renew Gaza truce-ceasefire deal, amid reported slow-down in talks under Ron Dermer
By ToI Staff
Streit's co-owners Aaron Gross, far left, and Aron Yagoda, far right, give two young visitors a tour of the matzah factory. (Courtesy Streit's via JTA)
April 11, 2025, 4:36 am
How your matzah gets made: A peek inside NY’s Streit’s factory
First opened in New York’s Lower East Side a century ago, the US bakery now supplies ritual Passover flat breads to seder tables as far away as Europe, South Africa and Israel
By Joseph Strauss
Congregants of the 104-year-old Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, which burned down in the Eaton fire, gather at the First United Methodist Church in Pasadena, California on April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
April 10, 2025, 6:18 pm
Jewish families channel Passover story after devastating losses in LA wildfires
As displaced communities reflect on costs of disaster before Seder, director of 104-year old synagogue wrecked by fire says congregants, too, are wandering in the desert this year
By DEEPA BHARATH
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
Cover of 'One Little Goat,' written by Dara Horn (right) and illustrated by Theo Ellsworth. (courtesy/portrait by Michael Priest)
April 2, 2025, 11:13 pm
What Matters Now to author Dara Horn: Why Jews are the eternal scapegoat
The writer and scholar has just published her first book for young readers, a graphic novel for Passover called, ‘One Little Goat.’ It’s funny and wise, but not cute and cuddly
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
In this undated photo, Phil Lesh, center, lights candles as Jeannette Ferber, right, a cantorial soloist at Berkeley's Renewal congregation Chochmat HaLev, sings a blessing and guitarist Ross James looks on. (© Bob Minkin Photography / www.minkinphotography.com)
October 27, 2024, 6:24 pm
Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead bassist who hosted Passover jam session-Seders, dies at 84
Not himself a Jew, Lesh bonded with the large community of Jewish Deadheads, celebrating holidays with them at the California music venue he operated after the iconic band broke up
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, center, celebrating the Passover seder with IDF soldiers whose families live abroad, in Jeruslaem, April 22, 2024. (GPO)
April 24, 2024, 6:51 pm
Sara Netanyahu walks back photoshopped Seder pic amid ridicule
Critics pointed out the image showed overt digital enhancement of PM’s wife, who was standing next to soldiers and a picture of the hostages
By Stuart Winer
Protesters set fire to a "non-Seder" table outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Caesarea call for a hostage release deal, April 24, 2024. (Arielle Skladman/Pro-Democracy Movement)
April 22, 2024, 10:26 pm
Kibbutz Be’eri survivors hold Seder in Hostages Square; fiery protests at PM’s home
Israel marks Passover in shadow of 200 days of war, absence of 133 hostages in Gaza; hundreds demonstrate at Netanyahu’s home demanding hostage deal, set fire to ‘non-Seder table’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Members of Kibbutz Be'eri set up tables for the Seder on the first night of Passover, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv. April 22, 2024. The kibbutz was among the worst hit in Hamas's October 7 massacre, and its residents have not been able to return. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
April 22, 2024, 2:43 pm
With empty chairs and forlorn homes, Israelis prepare for solemn Passover
Celebrating freedom of ancient Israelites is a struggle with 133 hostages in Gaza and over 100,000 displaced, as some look to mark trauma of past months within holiday traditions
By Ilan Ben Zion
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
Illustrative photo of grapes ready for harvest in the Golan. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
April 22, 2024, 10:11 am
Two thousand years ago, wine was likely as complex and flavorful as today
Roman wines ‘may even have rivaled the fine wines of today,’ archaeologist says; Israeli wine expert opines that Jewish wine during the Roman period was likely ‘very great’
By Gavriel Fiske
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