Posts Tagged: passover
From the Passover Seder to the Real World
JNS.org - At my family’s Passover seder this year, we read -- as we always do -- from the traditional Sephardic haggadah, in keeping with the customs of the Jewish...
Alan Dershowitz: Democrats’ Overreaction to Spicer’s Holocaust Blunder Dishonors the Six Million
The politicization of the Holocaust dishonors the memory of the six million. Sean Spicer made a serious mistake when he compared Bashar Assad to Hitler, and...
Passover – The Remembrance of Suffering, Enslavement and God-Given Freedom
Holidays in Israel are interwoven into daily life so beautifully that to me, after just a few years, they seemed to ebb and flow like...
Jewish Community ‘Hurt, Angry’ as Tufts Student Senate Passes BDS Motion in Landslide on Eve of Passover
Members of Tufts University's Jewish community told The Algemeiner on Monday they were "hurt and angry," after the school's student senate passed a boycott, divestment and sanctions...
This Passover, Israelis Have Reasons to Rejoice
In the coming days, most Israelis, secular and observant, will celebrate Passover -- the festival of freedom in which we recount our life of slavery and exodus from Egypt,...
Pesach: Just Do It
"Just do it” is, of course, the Nike's slogan, but I think we Jews should adopt it. Let me explain. Why is Pesach, or Passover, so...
Ahead of Passover Holiday, IDF Conducts Massive Anti-Terrorism Drill in West Bank
JNS.org - As Passover approaches, Israeli military week completed this week its largest training exercise in the past five years in Judea and Samaria (West Bank). The military exercise...
Jewish Civil Rights Groups Ignore Member of the Tribe Who Was Discriminated Against
JNS.org -- What if you got fired for observing Passover? “Not possible in 21st-century America,” you confidently reply. What if you sued, and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as...
My First Passover As an Israeli
JNS.org - The first time I came to Israel for Passover, I was sold. At Burger’s Bar, a popular burger restaurant in Israel, they served hamburgers...
Passover: Singing About National Miracles, Past and Present
JNS.org - The Israelites left Egypt on the first day of Passover, but the Egyptians didn’t leave them until the sea separated them forever on the...
Staggering Stupidity
We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them. – Albert Einstein One does not have to be an Einstein to grasp...
Unflattering Truths About the New York Times’ ‘Unkosher’ Jewish-Food Obsession
The New York Times is obsessed with Jewish food — in a way that is unflatteringly revealing about the newspaper’s overall attitude toward Jews and...
Passover, Judaism and Bernie Sanders
Abba Eban once said that “if Algeria introduced a UN resolution declaring the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by...
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...
