Posts Tagged: Passover Story
True Power Comes from Admitting Our Mistakes, and Changing Course
My specialty is being right when other people are wrong!” These are the words of George Bernard Shaw (1857-1950) in his 1897 play "You Never Can...
Being a Righteous Jew Requires Showing Kindness to Others
Have you ever heard of Riceman? Probably not. He’s a YouTuber who will turn 28-years-old this Saturday. Born in Shanghai, China, his real name is...
Passover: When Jews Stepped Into History on Our Terms
JNS.org - In his important book Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History, the historian David Biale noted that the very first ancient Egyptian reference to...
Passover: Slaves or Pagans?
The Four Questions that are asked in the Haggadah act as an introduction to the ideas behind the festival of Passover. These questions were already...
Pharaoh and His Picture of Dorian Gray
Earlier this month, a stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s iconic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray opened at a theater in Chicago. The new production -- which sets the...
Plato’s Haggadah in the ‘Dialogues’
Now that Jews all over the world will once again assemble around the Seder table and read the Haggadah -- the story of the exodus from Egypt -- it...
A Modern Noise That Robs Us of All Peace
Those reading the Passover story can rightly wonder why frogs were such a terrible plague. Was God really showing His power to the Egyptians by sending...
Egyptian Archaeologist Claims Passover Story’s Pharaoh Was Not an Egyptian
JNS.org - The ancient Pharaoh mentioned during the Passover holiday’s annual retelling of the Jewish Exodus story was not actually an Egyptian, a leading Egyptian archaeologist...
Passover Defies Logic, But It Works
Pesach, like all of religion, defies logic. That does not make it any less significant, valid or effective. The whole of mysticism, you might say, all...
Passover: How Does One Celebrate Freedom?
JNS.org - Passover is the holiday of freedom. A person or a society are free when they are on their own, not subject to...
Passover Guide for the Perplexed, 2015
1. According to Heinrich Heine, the 19th century German poet, "Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent." 2. Passover is the prime...
The Noise that Drowns Out all Peace
Followers of the Passover story can rightly wonder why frogs were such a terrible plague. Was God really showing His power to the Egyptians by...
Russian Billionaire Embarks on 3 Day Journey Through Desert to Mark Passover (PHOTOS)
Russian Billionaire Mikhail Fridman and other Russian businessmen embarked on a 3 day journey through the deserts of modern Israel last week, in order...
