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03/30/2026

The Seder is meant to be experienced, not just recited. But keeping kids engaged for hours takes some strategy.

Educator Devorah Katz shares practical ideas for making your Seder table one kids actually want to sit at: from creating a family Haggadah with photos and artwork that grows year after year, to setting up chavruta pairs between grandparents and grandchildren, to bingo boards with candy prizes for the little ones who need a little extra motivation.

The more a child feels ownership over the Seder, the more they’ll want to show up for it.

Which tip are you trying this year? Tell us in the comments.

Shabbat Shalom! 👋
03/27/2026

Shabbat Shalom! 👋

03/26/2026

Rabbi Gil Student gave up the em dash. And honestly? Maybe you should too.

When your signature writing style starts looking like an AI default, you have to rethink everything.

Bold headers, clean formatting, precise punctuation.

What used to signal effort, now signals “I let a chatbot do it.”

The bar has shifted. The question is: What does ‘genuinely’ human writing look like now?

​Our newest episode, Torah in the Age of Artificial Intelligence ft. Rabbi Dr. Josh Joseph is out now on all listening platforms and YouTube!

Comment DASH below and we’ll send you the link 🎧▶️

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Pesach is a week of so much food, and by day four, your body knows it.Cooking instructor and author Naomi Ross makes th...
03/25/2026

Pesach is a week of so much food, and by day four, your body knows it.

Cooking instructor and author Naomi Ross makes the case for keeping your Seder table fresh, clean and produce-forward this year.

Her approach: maximize fresh ingredients, minimize processed shortcuts, and let the food speak for itself.

In the Spring 2026 edition of Chef’s Table, she shares three recipes worth making:

🥒 Sheet-Pan Zucchini and Tomatoes

🍚 Roasted Balsamic Cauliflower

🍐 And Spiced Poached Pears with Red Wine Syrup

All are fat-free but taste like a luxury.

Swipe through for the full recipes.

What dish do you always come back to on Pesach?

Pesach is one of the most meaningful times of year. It is also, let’s be honest, one of the most expensive.Between groce...
03/24/2026

Pesach is one of the most meaningful times of year. 

It is also, let’s be honest, one of the most expensive.

Between groceries, kitchenware, travel, and the pressure to do it all perfectly, costs can spiral fast. 
But a meaningful Seder and a blown budget are not the same thing.

Atara Mauskopf, financial coach and founder of Living on Points, shares seven practical strategies for celebrating fully without overspending. From shopping your pantry before you buy a single thing, to knowing exactly where it’s worth splurging (matzah and wine) and where it really isn’t (boxed seven-layer cake), these tips are grounded, realistic, and genuinely useful.

Swipe for tips! 

Which of these do you already do, and which one are you going to try this year?


Good Shabbos from our family to yours! 🕯️ 🕯️
03/20/2026

Good Shabbos from our family to yours! 🕯️ 🕯️

03/19/2026

Everyone’s talking about AI. But are we actually thinking about it?

The doom and gloom is real.

Jobs disappearing, poverty, the end of human thought as we know it.

But before we spiral, Rabbi Dr. Josh Joseph and Rabbi Gil Student are asking a different question:

What’s the opportunity here?

The conversation gets real quickly. How do we keep our agency when AI is ready to think for us? What happens to the chain of transmission when people stop going to rabbis? And is AI actually a tool, or just a very convincing toy?

New episode of the Jewish Action Podcast drops Thursday, March 26. “Torah in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” ft. Rabbi Dr. Josh Joseph, EVP and COO of the Orthodox Union.

Stay tuned.

The Seder tells a story we’ve been living for thousands of years. But Dr. Erica Brown reminds us it’s not just about loo...
03/18/2026

The Seder tells a story we’ve been living for thousands of years.

But Dr. Erica Brown reminds us it’s not just about looking back.

It’s also about learning to hold space for what’s still coming.

Seder Talk: A Conversational Haggada is available now from and Maggid Books.

In 1996, Rabbi Shlomo Baksht arrived in Odesa and found hundreds of Jewish children living in government institutions or...
03/17/2026

In 1996, Rabbi Shlomo Baksht arrived in Odesa and found hundreds of Jewish children living in government institutions or surviving on the streets. He built them a home, a school, a community.

In 2022, Russian bombs forced that entire community onto buses in the middle of the night. They landed in Bucharest with no language, no jobs, and no clear future.

This Pesach, they’re baking matzah.

The Ateres HaMatzos / Matzos Bucharest bakery now employs forty adults from the Tikva community, providing months of steady work and a measure of dignity. 60,000 pounds of matzah are reaching US shelves for the first time, through a partnership between the OU and Network for Kindness.

Lechem oni (the bread of affliction) is also, somehow, the bread of hope.

The matzah we eat on Pesach is called both the bread of affliction and the bread of freedom. What does it mean to you that the same symbol holds both? Tell us in the comments.

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