From burning chametz in Mexico to cracking jokes at a family Seder, Jewish voices share what the ancient festival of liberation means to them today.

As Jewish communities around the world prepare to gather around Seder tables, light candles, and retell the ancient story of the Exodus from Egypt, I spoke with rabbis, activists, entrepreneurs, and young adults to ask a simple but profound question: What does Pesach mean to you?

Their answers — by turns spiritual, political, deeply personal, and even comedic — reveal a holiday that continues to resonate and reinvent itself across generations.

Executive Director, Maryland Hillel

At a Passover program in Mexico  the burning of chametz is more than a ritual cleanup — it is an act of self-examination.

“We are burning the physical bread as a manifestation to eliminate all of the haughtiness in our lives, because bread and hametz is about the leaven that we have too much........

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