With the Jewish reoccupation of our homeland forbidden, we needed a ceremony and a text to commemorate Pesach, but how could we get it past the Roman censors?

This is the 100th Raffel Ticket weekly column I've written. How the heck did that happen? The underlying explanation has to ...

Moreover, why does the Haggadah tell a story about Rabbi Tarfon, Rabbi Eliezer, and Rabbi Akiva meeting to discuss Yetziat Mitzrayim all night long and having to be told that it was time to say ...

Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Tarfon were reclining in Bnei Brak. They were discussing the Exodus from Egypt all that night until their students came and said to them: ‘Our teachers, the time has ...