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Display the seder plate and hide the afikomen – Passover begins this week. Passover, or Pesach, is a major Jewish holiday during the month of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar, usually falling in March or ...

The afikomen: dessert or simply a ploy to keep children — and some adults — awake through most of the seder? Most people probably favor the latter, and tend to choose one of two techniques to make ...

While there are any number of reasons suggested for the ritual of taking the afikomen, ultimately it is linked with the notion of engaging our children in order to keep them awake throughout the Seder ...

Ah, Passover. The Jewish holiday that epitomizes them all: a formal meal (the seder), family flying in from all over the place, copious amounts of drinking (four glasses of wine!), and traditions ...

A few years ago, at the beginning of the first Seder, our four-and-a-half-year-old twins hid the afikomen along with their older brothers. But the twins were long asleep before it was time to eat the ...

How smart were our forebears? Without a single pad, pod or phone, indeed back when the only angry birds were the ones wondering who got the worm first, our elders figured out a way to keep children ...

Wednesday is the start of Passover. This year, like lots of Jews, I’m organizing an online Seder. (There’ll be Hillel sandwich screenshots, Ten Plagues emoji, and screen-shared singalong slides with ...

Clubhouse will host a Passover seder with several celebrity guests, rabbis, Holocaust survivors and philanthropists — and the digital afikomen will be a matzah-themed NFT artwork up for auction. It ...

If any part of the Seder needs an upgrade, it’s the afikomen hunt. So much fuss over a broken cracker wrapped in a wine-stained napkin — really, people, we can do better. This year, give your afikomen ...

A Plantation rabbi has come up with an unusual way to look for the afikomen, the hidden piece of matzah that children search for at the end of the Passover seder. Rabbi Andrew Jacobs, of Ramat Shalom ...

(JTA) — It was only a matter of time before the NFT craze collided with the Jewish world. In case you’ve missed a large portion of pop culture news in recent months, NFT stands for “non-fungible token ...