Leavened bread and bread products burn in a fire Friday, April 11, 2025, at Congregation Brith Sholom in Bethlehem to prepare ...

Orthodox celebrate the liberation of Jewish people from slavery in ancient Egypt more than 3,000 years ago with symbolic ...

A fire that broke out in an apartment in Beitar Illit was found to have been caused by a candle used to search for chametz, ...

Freedom is the fulfillment of our inner essence. We need to aspire to the lofty freedom of those who left Egypt. To the ...

Rabbi Yosef Landa, who coordinates the movement’s online sale of leavened items for Passover, told JNS that it’s a “bona fide sale.”The post Chabad sells chametz for thousands online before ...

When a person forgot to sell his chametz and does not want to destroy it, the poskim write that he should grant it as a gift to a gentile, because this is a gift for the purpose of a mitzvah – to av ...

Some have complained that the sale seems like a game: the chametz does not leave the original owner’s residence (something ...

"We burn the bread to teach us what’s important, which is the community helping each other and everyone coming together as ...

The Shulchan Arukh, a widely accepted code of Jewish law, advises that when checking for chametz (leavened products), one ...

I rummaged and rummaged through every pocket in the bag while the tag continued to beep. And lo and behold – while I was still trying to locate the tag, what did I come up with but two little packag ...

According to this week’s Torah portion there is more to chametz, or leavened food, than just a detail in the story of the ...

Just like this year with the chametz that carries over on Shabbat morning, we most likely have some spiritual chametz ...