Idan Raichel hit song performed by 900 Emanuel voices

Sydney’s Emanuel School has produced a special rendition of Idan Raichel’s hit song – Shevet Achim Ve’achayot, a Tribe of Brothers and Sisters. Read more

Chag Sameach from Anthony Albanese

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sends a Pesach message to the Australian Jewish community. Read more

Law passed allowing hospitals to ban leavened bread during Passover

Knesset lawmakers passed into law legislation allowing Israeli hospitals to prevent leavened bread from being brought in during Passover. Read more

Where did the accusation that Jews used Christian blood to make wine originate?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Protests increase as Netanyahu sacks defence minister

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sacked Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, triggering mass protests a day after Gallant broke ranks with the government and urged a halt to a highly contested plan to overhaul the judicial system. Read more

Israel arrests suspects in West Bank settler rampage

Police have arrested six suspects over a settler rampage in the occupied West Bank that an Israeli general described as a “pogrom” and which followed a deadly Palestinian gun attack. Read more

Beverly Hills residents wake up to antisemitic flyers on first day of Passover

Antisemitic flyers blaming Russia’s nearly two-month-long war in Ukraine on Jews were left in front of homes in Beverly Hills, Calif., on the first day of Passover. Read more

Freedom isn’t possible without a nation

It’s the most popular Jewish holiday of the year. Though the fastest-growing and perhaps soon to be the largest sector of American Jewry is the one demographers call “Jews of no religion,” Passover is still the one holiday that is widely observed. Read more

Real freedom

America is obsessed with slavery and its ramifications and rightly so. But it is less concerned with the idea of freedom and what that means. Read more

Prime Minister Scott Morrison sends his Passover message

As the sun sets at Passover, Jewish families in Australia and around the globe will come together to find strength in faith, family, fellowship and community. Read more

Israel’s biggest matzah

Ahead of the Passover, President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal welcomed representatives of the factory that produced the biggest matzah in Israel. Read more

How Jews in Ukraine will celebrate Passover

They will be in shelters, private homes, refugee camps, synagogues and military bases. But come what may, when night falls on Passover eve on April 15, the Jews of Ukraine will pause to eat matzah and bitter herbs, drink four cups of wine, recall the miracles of the Exodus and look forward to better times…writes Menachem Posner. Read more

Shabbat Metzora and Shabbat HaGadol: A Special Shabbat

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Amid tensions, Defence Minister Gantz talks with PA head Abbas

Defence Minister Benny Gantz spoke Tuesday evening with Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, as security tensions are high following a series of terror attacks in Israel that claimed the lives of 11 people. Read more

Gaza source: ‘Deterioration in Jerusalem’ will force Hamas to attack

“Hamas is not interested in opening a front against Israel,” but a deterioration in Jerusalem will force it to react, a leader in the Gaza Strip told TPS. The Palestinian Authority also estimates that Hamas is not seeking a large-scale confrontation at this time. Read more

This global health crisis and Passover

A special message from Prime Minister Scott Morrison for an out of the ordinary Passover. Read more

Passover: We have reason to rejoice…writes Isi Leibler

Tomorrow, most Israelis, secular as well as observant, will celebrate Passover, the festival of freedom in which we recount our life of slavery and exodus from Egypt and how we became a nation. Read more

This year in a rebuilt and expanded Jerusalem…writes Michael Kuttner

Winter is over and spring has sprung. Passover preparations are in full swing, the blossoms are blooming and Israel prepares to welcome an influx of pilgrims and tourists from all over the world. Read more

A Holocaust Pesach diary

Yad Vashem has published excerpts from a Melbourne woman’s diary chronicling her time in the Gabersdorf Labor Camp in the hope they can learn more about the women incarcerated there. Read more

Teach your children…writes Michael Kuttner

Every Passover eve Jews worldwide sit down with family and friends to recount the story of the Exodus from Egypt and learn its lessons. Read more

Why is this bite different from all other bites?…asks Tami Sussman

If the thought of giving up bread, pasta, muesli and Tim Tams for a bit over a week makes you want to pluck your eyebrows off, then have no fear – you are experiencing a normal response to an anticipatory thought of Passover. Read more