When we look at the season’s latest Haggadot—for there will always be new, exciting, original, modern versions—we have to ask: What makes them truly different

Falling in the spring, Passover is the perfect time to appreciate all things outdoors. And it is hardly surprising that gifts for hosts, for kids or

I am standing at my white kitchen counter feeding sticky ingredients into a food mixer: clumps of dates, walnut pieces from a cellophane packet, slices

First Readers Lotsa Matzah by Tilda Balsey. Illustrated by Akemi Gutierrez. (Kar-Ben, 12 pp. $5.95) This simple rhyming board book sweetly tells how we left Egypt

While the “appetizers” for Seder nights are religiously predetermined—think haroset, hardboiled eggs and the Hillel sandwich—the actual dinner remains pleasantly free of ritual dishes (unless

The middle days of Passover are when cooking and menu planning become a challenge—when you’re not necessarily looking to impress large crowds and, more than

The metal detector at the outer gate of the Oregon State Correctional Institution did not perturb me. Nor did the fact that I had to

Kosher desserts present a year-round challenge in their customary need to be non-dairy, if being served after a meal containing meat. Add to the culinary