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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
A Passover ad placed by the Georgia state senate campaign of Nathalie Kanani in the Atlanta Jewish Times drew criticism for showing a challah. (Screenshot via JTA)
April 6, 2026, 7:30 pm
Georgia political candidate sorry for fluffy challah in a Passover ad
Democrat Nathalie Kanani calls image of bread ‘an oversight that should not have happened,’ though not the first Passover bread to ignite a social media firestorm in recent years
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Jewish worshippers take part in the traditional Priestly Blessing during the Passover holiday in an indoor section along the Western Wall in Jerusalem, after prayers were limited to 50 participants due to the ongoing war, April 5, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 5, 2026, 2:43 pm
Limited Passover and Easter ceremonies held at Jerusalem holy sites amid war restrictions
Old City largely desolate as just a handful of clergy allowed to perform Passover priestly blessing at the Western Wall and Easter Sunday services at Church of Holy Sepulchre
By Rossella Tercatin, ToI Staff and Agencies
Yael Ben Cnaan helps a customer with a bouquet on the morning before Passover at her store Bishvil Flowers in Tel Aviv, April 1, 2026. (Theia Chatelle via JTA)
April 2, 2026, 1:24 pm
Israelis spend Passover under shadow of Iran war, as businesses cling to survival
Yael Ben Cnaan struggles to keep Tel Aviv flower store afloat during what is meant to be peak period; Finance Ministry says economy losing at least 4.3 billion shekels per week
By Theia Chatelle
Israelis wait in line to pass through Taba land border crossing with Egypt, near the southern city of Eilat, March 25, 2026. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 2, 2026, 10:43 am
Israelis seeking to fly abroad for Passover make a reverse Exodus path through Egypt
As war leads to flight cancellations from Ben Gurion Airport, Israelis and Jews observe the irony of people rushing to get into Egypt, with some noting lines are ’40 years long’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Rabbi Josh Bennett of Temple Israel in Detroit holds Lego blocks, urging families to add the children’s toy to their Seder plates in the wake of a recent attack on the synagogue. (Facebook via JTA)
April 1, 2026, 8:43 pm
After attack, Michigan synagogue calls to add Lego to Seder plate
Detroit’s Temple Israel, the site of last month’s ramming attack, says suggested new ritual object symbolizes both vulnerability and rebuilding
By Grace Gilson
Israelis celebrate the Passover Seder in an underground central Israel parking lot used as a public shelter during the ongoing war with Iran and Hezbollah, April 1, 2026. (Flash90)
April 1, 2026, 6:47 pm
Iran, Hezbollah launch attacks as Israelis host Passover Seders, sending millions to shelters
Four lightly hurt, including two babies, by bomblet from Iranian cluster warhead that struck Bnei Bnei overnight as Israel comes under attack before and during holiday’s first night
By Emanuel Fabian, Rossella Tercatin and ToI Staff
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
A view of the Western Wall plaza, with a single Israeli flag flying (center), empty and closed due to the ongoing war with Iran and Hezbollah and continued missile fire on Israel, Jerusalem, March 30, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 1, 2026, 4:22 pm
The war against Iran is anything but over, and Passover can be no complacent celebration of freedom
The nuclear danger, the missile threat, the potent proxies, the domestic oppression — none of these regime menaces has been definitively overcome. For Israel and the Jewish people, the Haggadah tale this year is a rallying cry
By David Horovitz
Illustrative: A family seen during the Passover Seder on the first night of the eight-day long Jewish holiday. (Nati Shohat/Flash 90)
April 1, 2026, 4:26 am
Trade war meets tradition: Canadian Jews confront a Manischewitz-free Passover
The ban on American booze, which came in response to the country’s tariffs, has ‘created a meaningful opening’ for Israeli wineries in Canada, according to a wine executive
By Joseph Strauss
Ultra-Orthodox Jews immerse cooking pots in boiling water to remove any traces of leavening (hametz) in preparation for the upcoming Passover holiday, in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, March 31, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 31, 2026, 6:07 pm
For Jerusalem’s Haredim, it’s business as usual during wartime Passover shopping rush
As war with Iran keeps tourists away and quiets the Mahane Yehuda market, ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods remain packed with locals preparing for the holiday
By Zev Stub
Illustrative: Israeli resort city Eilat, southern Israel, November 11, 2019. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
March 30, 2026, 3:43 pm
Passover hotel programs see mass exodus as war disrupts holiday travel plans
Flight cancellations and security concerns make the journey in and out of Israel nonviable for tens of thousands, dealing a blow to the growing kosher for Passover hospitality industry
By Zev Stub
A family seen during the Passover Seder on the first night of the 8-day long Jewish holiday, in Moshav Yashresh on March 27, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
March 30, 2026, 9:31 am
Three top Israeli chefs share their winning wartime Passover shortcuts
Ruhama Shitrit, Adeena Sussman and Shalom Simcha Elbert say goals for this holiday under fire should be ‘tasty food that’s also simple, and to keep our traditions’
By Jessica Steinberg
A man sits beside a locked door of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and shuttered shops in Jerusalem’s Old City, which remains off limits to visitors amid the war with Iran, on March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
March 29, 2026, 3:02 pm
Under shadow of war with Iran, Jerusalem heads into subdued Passover and Easter
Celebrations canceled and shops shuttered after missile fragments fell in Old City; Home Front Command limits religious gatherings to 50 people
By Melanie Lidman
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