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The Anti-Semitism of British Muslims

The Embrace of the Evangelicals

Elijah’s Newfangled Cup

Opening the door to Elijah and inviting him to drink a cup of wine is a widespread Seder custom today.  But there is no record of this custom anywhere before the 17th century.The Jew and the Giant Olive

The midrash says a person should eat an olive's worth of matzah at the Seder.  But halakhists today reckon the amount required at 10 times the size of an actual olive.Deconstructing Dayeinu

"Would it really have 'been enough for us' had God not, say, split the Red Sea, trapping our ancestors between the water and the Egyptian army?"Plato and the Haggadah

In the Phaedrus, Plato bemoans the inadequacy of the written word.  So too, on Seder night, it is not sufficient for us to read the Haggadah—we must hear it.