PASSOVER begins this evening at sundown, and today is also Good Friday. Best wishes to all those observing them.
Also relevant: Piyyut and Modern Hebrew Poetry – The Passover Connection (Ophir Münz-Manor, The Talmud Blog).
Tangentially relevant: Jews reclaim Jesus as one of their own (Richard Allen Greene, CNN Belief Blog). For detailed evaluations of the recent books by Boteach and Boyarin, see here and follow the links.