Over the past few decades, new seder plate foods have joined some Passover tables. Next to the maror, charoset, karpas and other symbolic snacks sit oranges, artichokes, olives, chocolate and others.

But the Seder plate is a specific one just for Passover. It has special spots for each of the six foods listed above, plus some Hebrew writing, colorful painted designs or other decorations.

A traditional Seder plate includes, clockwise from bottom, matzo, an unleavened bread, beitzah, or roasted egg, zeroa, a roasted bone, charoset, a mixture of wine, nuts and fruit, maror, bitter ...

Chag Sameach!Passover, or Pesach, celebrates the Israelites' escape from slavery in Egypt. The 8-day holiday starts on the 15th day of the Hebrew month Nisan when there's a full moon. The Hebrew ...

Items on the Seder plate bring their journey to freedom to life. Passover is the one major Jewish holiday where the service is conducted at home, not in a synagogue.

The event at the DCJCC celebrated the role of women in the exodus and in Jewish life. In addition to the orange, the Seder plate featured other symbols to recognize the struggles of modern women.

The seder night is a night for telling stories, our own and the ones we think need to be told. But to my mind, we do not need more on our seder plate to make that happen.

The seder night is a night for telling stories, our own and the ones we think need to be told. But to my mind, we do not need more on our seder plate to make that happen. In fact, I worry that, in ...

With Passover underway — it runs from April 5-13 — some might be unfamiliar with the items that go on the traditional seder plate. A seder is a name for a Passover service. The seder plate ...

The orange is a relatively recent addition to the seder plate. Susannah Heschel, a Jewish studies professor at Dartmouth College and the daughter of the civil rights leader Abraham Joshua Heschel ...

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With the pomegranate on our Seder plate, we can take the words and ideas that are meant to be slurs imposed on us by haters and turn them into a way of celebrating who we are.