Moshe Kohn: Remember to Be Free
The connection between liberty and responsibility ’Remembrance is the key to Redemption,"said Rabbi Yisrael Ba’al Shem Tov, the 18th-century founder of Hassidism.

Gail Lichtman: Beans of Contention
Legumes separate Ashkenazim from Sephardim during Pessah. It has been called the "Pessah divide" - differentiating Ashkenazim from Sephardim and creating chaos at the Seder tables of ethnically mixed families.

Richard H. Schwartz: Vegetarian Pessah -
for goodness sake!
Pessah and vegetarianism: Are the two compatible? After all, what is a Seder without gefilte fish, chicken soup, chopped liver, chicken and other meats? A shankbone is needed to commemorate the paschal sacrifice, and Halacha mandates that Jews eat meat to rejoice on Pessah and other Jewish festivals.

Ruth E. Gruber: An Italian Pessah
Kashrut meets culinary art. A recent book provides a fascinating - and mouth-watering - glimpse at how Italian Jews sat down to the seder 100, 200 and even 500 years ago.

Ronda Robinson: Filmmaker and father of the 'Neighborhood Seder'
On a snowy morning in Woodstock, New York, retired filmmaker David Tapper is sitting comfortably inside Storybook, his country Tudor-style house. Surrounded by family photos and fresh-cut flowers in a vase, he tells a tale.

Moshe Kohn: Ritual and Reminiscence
From the first Pessah, celebrated on the eve of the Exodus, Seders have given us food for thought. The Pessah Seder is really meant to be a little pageant reenacting our liberation from enslavement some 33 centuries ago and not just another sumptuous banquet.