Jewish Holidays

The joyful festival of Shavuot connected the people with their land, with each other, and with God as they made their pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

The Passover elements symbolize God’s character and have formed Jewish identity for generations by retelling the story of our liberation from Egypt.

Shavuot has been relegated to the status of a lesser-celebrated holiday on our Jewish calendar. Yet it is a festival that reminds us that God meets bo...

Was Jesus’ Last Supper a Passover Seder similar to what Jewish people experience today? Should his followers be remembering this event in a “more Jewi...

Passover culminates in the hope that the herald, the messenger, Elijah, will come and drink from his cup. But what would his arrival mean?

At Rosh Hashanah, the sound of the shofar calls us to gather and to repent, and it initiates the ten Days of Awe.

Celebrating Purim as a boy, I saw Mordechai as the main hero. It took time to fully appreciate Esther’s humble courage and heroic role in her story.

Were some modern Passover traditions invented by the early followers of Jesus, before they were separated from the greater Jewish community?