Seder

Observation · April 18, 2024
Did the Ancient Sage Hillel Really Invent the Sandwich?
By Philologos
The truth of the tale of Hillel and the "Hillel sandwich."
Response · May 18, 2020
Why Sephardi and Mizrahi Approaches to Jewish Law Were Friendlier to the Zoom Seder
By Daniel Bouskila
Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Monthly Essay · May 4, 2020
In Rejecting the Zoom Seder, What Did Orthodox Jews Affirm?
By Chaim Saiman
What the headline-making rabbinic showdown over online seders reveals about Jewish law and its limits.
Observation · April 28, 2020
The Real Reason 14th-Century Italian Jews Put a Pig in Their Haggadah
By Marc Michael Epstein
It's not that they were exceptionally sophisticated or tolerant, as one popular recent article would have it—it's that they lived surrounded by people who raised pigs.
Observation · December 10, 2014
Gil Marks and the Holy Stomach
By Rabbi Meir Soloveichik
An acclaimed food writer and culinary historian knew that to understand Jewish food was to understand Judaism itself.