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Wednesday, April 16th 2025
I Kept My Freedom in Hamas’s Captivity: Agam Berger, WSJ, Apr. 10, 2025 If Moses Freed the Jews Today, the UN Would Condemn Him as a War Criminal – Opinion: Gerald M. Steinberg, Jerusalem Post, Apr. 11, 2025 How Harvard’s President Spoiled Passover: Ira Stoll, The NY Sun, Apr. 15, 2025 Passover and the Inevitable […]
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Wednesday, April 16th 2025 / Tuesday, April 15th 2025
Dylan Shore Times of Israel, Apr. 15, 2025 “Why are we so ignorant to think that this does not include us?” For thousands of years, the Jewish people gathered around their Seder tables and recounted the story of Exodus. The story of the liberation of the Israelites from slavery to their promised land of Israel. […]
Friday, April 11th 2025 / Friday, April 11th 2025
“The Haggadah is a book with no single author, a text shaped by centuries of anonymous accretions and insertions. Perhaps its non-linear development is part of the reason why, as I’ve written, it tells a disorganized account of the Exodus. And yet, the Haggadah that has come down to us still hangs together, possessed by a […]
Friday, April 11th 2025 / Thursday, April 10th 2025
Yosef Lindell Lehrhaus, Apr. 3, 2025 “… we focus on the story on Seder night precisely because we are now in exile and telling about the miracles of the Exodus gives us hope for the future.” On Seder night, we tell our national story. The Haggadah voices the Jewish tale of deliverance—from slavery to freedom, from […]
Shiela Tulier Keiter Jewish Review of Books, Apr. 2, 2025 “Whose idea was it to read the book in shul? And why don’t Sephardim, who also inherited the allegorical reading, read Song of Songs on Passover?” Whose idea was it to read the Song of Songs on Shabbat Chol Hamoed, the Sabbath that falls during […]
Robert Warren 18Forty, Apr. 3, 2025 “If in my youth Judaism seemed ancient and powerful, in my young adulthood Judaism was almost anachronistic.” I’m eight years old, and I push open the heavy front door of my grandparent’s house and squint into the darkness of the yard. I wonder if Elijah the Prophet will show […]
Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern Jewish Journal, Mar. 26, 2025 “In the midrashim, the Egyptian sequence of negative items led to their doom, but ‘Dayenu’ leads their Israelite adversaries in the opposite direction, to salvation and fulfillment. “ If we could figure out the origin of everyone’s favorite Passover song, it would be enough. The development of […]
Monday, April 22nd 2024
Mijal Bitton Sapir Journal, October 2023 – February 2024 “This is what Jewish peoplehood feels like. The pain is telling us that the organism is working, that we are still a “we.” This pain is the essence of being — or becoming — a Jew.” The words of the Torah can reflect our profound sorrow in this moment. Each […]
Tuesday, April 4th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
INCREASING TIES It Came to Pass at Midnight—From the Amidah to the Passover Haggadah: Prof. Rabbi Laura Lieber, The Torah.com, Sept. 26, 2020 –– The Passover Haggadah concludes with a series of songs, the first of which is וַיְהִי בַּחֲצִי הַלַּיְלָה, Vayhi BeChatzi HaLayla, “It Came to Pass at Midnight” (Exod 12:29). The song, however, was not […]
Ruth R. Wisse WSJ, Mar. 30, 2023 “Why did “they” so often seek to destroy us? Why some nations and not others? Why the Germans? And why, more exigently by the late 1940s and ’50s, did Arab and Muslim leaders who already ruled over myriad countries adamantly refuse to coexist with the tiniest Jewish state? […]
Stuart Halpern Tablet, Mar. 31, 2023 ‘A harbinger of hope, a rebuker of the unrighteous, a hearer of stillness amid fractured times, the Seder night’s specter continues to visit, stirring Americans to perceive in his cup their own redemptive possibilities.’ Everyone’s favorite Passover guest is a ghost. In one of the Seder’s most mystical […]
Shalom Carm First Things, April 2023 “… for Jews, the normative memory of slavery is inseparable from the threat of extermination.” Jews throughout the world celebrate the first nights of Passover, which commemorate God’s deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt 3,500 years ago. The focus is the Seder, a meal at which a […]
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