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

Shabbat Metzora – Shabbat HaGadol:  Elijah

“Behold I will send you Elijah (Eliyahu) the prophet before the great awesome Day of God and he will reconcile fathers to children and children to fathers” (Malachi 3:24). Read more

Half a million people visited Jerusalem’s Western Wall despite tensions

Despite security tensions with Palestinians on the Temple Mount, “about half a million people” visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem during the week-long holiday of Passover. Read more

Police allow Jewish visitors ascend Temple Mount

Israeli police allowed Jewish visitors to enter the Temple Mount on Sunday morning after the conclusion of Muslim dawn prayers. 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

A passover message from Anthony Albanese

It gives me great pleasure to offer you the greeting that has been a shining thread through the centuries: Chag Pesach Sameach. Read more

Shabbat Metzora and Shabbat HaGadol: A Special Shabbat

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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ Pesach message

With Pesach approaching, I would like to send my very best wishes to the Victorian Jewish community. Read more

The Seder

For some of us, every minute of the two Seder nights is an absolute delight. Even the preparation and the cleaning – the anticipation. There is no other occasion in the festive year quite like it. Read more

Exploring the connection between Pesach and refugees

Young adults in their 20s and 30s joined the New Israel Fund Australia, Stand Up, Habonim Dror and Netzer youth movements to learn more about the refugee situation in Israel and Australia and its relevance to the festival of freedom, Pesach. Read more

President’s Pesach

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has been preparing for Peach…with the help of his grandson. Read more

Ask the Rabbi about Pesach

Rabbi Raymond Apple writes about the ten plagues, chametz and the invisible Seder guest… Read more

Breaking the 18-minute rule…writes Rabbi Michoel Gourarie

In just over a week we will celebrate Passover, which begins with the Pesach Seder. One of the important Mitzvot of the Seder is the eating of Shmura Matzah. Read more

Pesach recipes: a link to the past

Does memory have a taste? Anyone who has tried to replicate their favourite family dishes without a recipe will tell you it does. Read more

How Pesach’s four cups of red wine can save your life

Research, released by researchers from the University of Leeds, UK, reports that resveratrol, a chemical found in red wine, may halt Alzheimer’s disease progression. Read more

From Temple times through today, Pesach conveys message of Jewish unity

Between 19 BCE and 4 BCE, King Herod I renovated the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, enlarging and beautifying it. Read more

Chag Sameach from the Prime Minister

Tony Abbott, the Prime Minister of Australia sends a Pesach message to J-Wire readers…. Read more

Unions get Pesach lesson

Union delegates to the weekly meeting of the NSW ‘parliament of the working class’ – Unions NSW  –  last week were told that the annual ritual of Passover is a time to celebrate freedom and emancipation. Read more