On April 1, 2026, April Fools’ Day collides with the first night of Passover, and the overlap feels less like coincidence and more like commentary. One day celebrates how easily reality can be bent, blurred and manipulated. The other is built to protect truth from exactly that kind of erosion. At a moment when facts feel fragile and consensus even more so, this convergence asks a question that goes well beyond any single tradition: what does it take to hold onto what is real?

April Fools’ Day has always played with uncertainty, but however it began, the modern version is clear. Media outlets run parody headlines. Companies launch elaborate hoaxes. Social media feeds fill with pranks and stories designed to deceive, at least for a moment. We have turned the distortion of reality into a shared joke.

But that instinct no longer belongs to just one day. It has become a feature of everyday life. We now live in a culture where the same event can produce multiple, conflicting “truths” within minutes. Facts are filtered, reshaped and contested in real time. Memory itself has become partisan. The question is no longer just who is right. It is whether a shared version of reality can survive at all.

Passover is especially relevant now: Truth must be preserved

That is where Passover offers something unexpectedly relevant, even for those who have never attended a Seder, the ritual meal........

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