At every Passover seder, there’s a hopeful moment: someone rises, walks to the door, and opens it—for Elijah the Prophet. We ...

the Hebrew prophet Elijah anointed his successor Elisha, as described in the biblical Book of Kings. For a place that drew Jewish pilgrims for centuries, it is remarkably well preserved—and ...

In the Bible, Elijah does not die (he goes up to heaven in a chariot – see 2 Kings, chapter 2). Therefore he is the prophet our tradition assumes will return to announce the coming of the Messiah.

Many Yiddish children’s stories about the Holocaust are set during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and depict children in heroic, ...