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Jacob Hahn donated 10 percent of his bar mitzvah gifts -- $1,000 -- to the Children's Guild. (Handout)
The guild provides services, programming and resources for children, adolescents and families with emotional, behavioral, physical or mental challenges.
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Rachel Putterman is creating a video tutorial that shows women, transgender and non-binary Jews laying tefillin. (Dena Trugman)
Last month, Rachel Putterman set up a fundraising page for money to produce a high-quality video featuring a diverse group of people showing how to wrap tefillin.
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Ella Haetzni: “My work is to bring some Israeli culture to the community and talk about the connection between Israeli society and Jewish-American society. And to bring back what I learned from visiting here.” (Photo by Ed Bunyan)
This year, the primary focus of shlichim around the world is the 70th anniversary of Israel’s founding.
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Passover Haggadah from Vienna, 1930. This colorfully illustrated French and Hebrew Haggadah was published in Vienna. Caption on image: "Eating Matzah." (Photo courtesy Jewish Museum of Maryland)
Don’t ever lose hope; boundless freedom can come today just as it did one spring morning in Egypt for our ancestors.
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Pieter Heijs showing one of the products of his Hollandia Matzes factory in Enschede, the Netherlands, March 19, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
Pieter Heijs, a co-owner of Hollandia Matzes in this eastern city, is probably the only matzoh maker in the world who braces for losses, not earnings, during Passover.
Read MoreIf you’re looking to give your seder a distinct 2018 flavor, consider these options — they bring up topics ranging from Donald Trump to Ethiopian chickpea matzoh.
Read MoreNoteworthy superheroes sprung from the minds and pallets of Jewish creators, mapping their American Jewish experience onto colorful messiahs and golems galore.
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In the wake of the 1862 passing of President John Tyler, Abraham Lincoln refused to issue a mourning proclamation or order that flags be flown at half-mast. (Wikimedia Commons)
Check out some little-known facts about charoset, the afikomen and seder traditions.
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Fulbright scholars McCall Wells, left, and Danielle Elliott are organizing an interfaith seder at the Universidad Camilo José Sela in Villafranca del Castillo, Spain. (Melissa Marazas)
Universidad Camilo José Sela in Villafranca del Castillo in Spain has its first seder.
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Esther Thorpe, left, identifies as non-binary and had a gender-neutral b'nei mitzvah ceremony with the help of student rabbi Gabriel Webber. (Courtesy of Miriam Taylor Thorpe)
“What we’re seeing now is that there are families and there are congregations that are very open to exploring with the kids that are becoming bar and bat mitzvah how they want to be identified.” –Rabbi Leora Kaye
Read MoreOn March 13, at 6:30 p.m., Roland Park’s Bolton Street Synagogue will partner with JQ Baltimore, a nonprofit serving Baltimore’s LGBTQ community, to host the area’s fourth annual LGBTQ Community Passover seder.
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