Posts Tagged: pesach
Who Compiled the Pesach Haggadah, and Why?
Although Jews have been retelling the story of the Exodus from Egypt at the Pesach seder for millennia, the Haggadah as we know it was...
How to Make This Year’s Seder a Meaningful One
For some of us, every minute of the two seder nights is an absolute delight. Even the preparation and the cleaning. There is no other...
Passover Guide for the Perplexed, 2017
1. According to Heinrich Heine, the 19th-century German poet, “Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.” 2. Moses’ “Let my people go”...
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...
Blessed Are Those Who Eat Chametz!
The Talmud (Brachot 17a) poses the following question: Why is it prohibited to eat or to possess chametz (leaven), such as bread, on Pesach? What is there in the nature...
Shavuot – Of Life and Logos
Everything in life is luck, Donald Trump is reputed to have once said with uncharacteristic humility. And for a change, the great Rabbis of Talmudic...
Pharaoh Waiting for the Last of the Ten Plagues of Passover (PHOTO BLOG)
Text courtesy of chabad.org. 1. Aaron strikes the Nile, the waters turn to blood; 2. Swarms of frogs overrun the land; 3. Lice infest all men...
Passover At Home
What do we mean by a family? There are so many new definitions and variations. Too often people who, for circumstances beyond their ...
Pesach 2012 – Oil or Occupation
In an article in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman quotes an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study showing that there...
The Palestinian Grinch Who Stole Pesach!
With the advent of the Jewish holiday of Passover (Pesach in Hebrew) this week, we are witness to another astonishingly brazen attempt by the Palestinian...
Baseball, Passover, and The Beauty Of Spring
On the airport bus to Tel Aviv to catch my flight to Toronto, I asked what the name of the city meant? Mound of Spring...
Divided Matzah, Divided People: The Secret of the Afikoman
Afikoman For children, it is the highlight of the seder. Over the years they discovered that because the seder could not be concluded until this...
Holiday Shopping (Kosher Wine Buying Guide – Part II)
For this week's post, I have included Part II of my favorite wines from my annual Pesach Kosher Wine Buying Guide (Part I of my...
Holiday Shopping (Kosher Wine Buying Guide – Part I)
The weeks leading up to Pessach are among the US kosher wine industry's busiest, and more kosher wine is sold during this period than the...
