Since the Passover Seder is a time for questions, it should come as little surprise that some would be raised by an easily missed moment tucked into the Haggada’s back half. During the recitation of ...

(JTA) — There are 49 days between the second night of Passover and the holiday of Shavuot, but who’s counting? Jews the world over, in fact, and in languages familiar and obscure. The daily counting ...

“Climbing Mt. Sinai – Counting the Omer,” created by Rabbi Gila Ruskin, is a mosaic Omer counter. | Courtesy of Gila Ruskin In 2000, Brandeis University health policy researcher Brian Rosman created ...

It feels like we’ve been counting the Omer for around seven months now. Though the formal Jewish ritual of rattling off seven weeks began the second night of Passover, ever since Oct. 7, the somber ...

We have a tendency in the Jewish world to jump very quickly to the meaning of things. A good example is the tradition of counting the Omer, the 49 days from Passover to Shavuot. This odd ritual is ...

(JNS) Tobi Kahn grasps an asymmetric block of wood in both hands. He turns the piece, a fluid combination of angles and curves painted a rich metallic pewter, to reveal the base: a perfect rectangle, ...