Last August, Lori Paulsen\’s 4-year-old son, Aaron, was diagnosed with Wilms\’ tumor, a rare form of kidney cancer. Soon afterward, a friend offered to call Chai Lifeline on her behalf.
In the 1960s, when \”God is dead\” debates were fashionable on college campuses, graffiti scrawled on a Harvard dorm wall proclaimed, \”God isn\’t dead. He just doesn\’t want to get involved.\”
There\’s a 1,000-year-old haggadah, there\’s an Internet haggadah, and now there is a new $15,000 Arthur Szyk Haggadah.
When Lori Schneide was 16 years old, she lived in India for the summer.
\”I had this deep impression of calling,\” she said. \”There\’s something we all can humbly contribute.\”
Just try to put Michal Taviv in a box — she won\’t fit.
Nitzan and Shaul Barakan had to come all the way from Israel to the United States to learn words like \”afikoman\” and \”seder plate.\”
The couple, both born and raised on Kibbutz Kinneret, didn\’t have a clue that there is a haggadah that looks nothing like the one they used on the kibbutz.
Both the composition and inclusion of \”Had Gadya\” into the Passover haggadah are shrouded in mystery.
This popular Aramaic song, chanted at the end of the seder purportedly to keep the children awake, is dated no earlier than the 15th century. Composed of 10 stanzas, \”Had Gadya\” follows a cumulative pattern similar to \”The House That Jack Built,\” where a new detail is added in each stanza.
In 1909, an impoverished Jewish immigrant arrived in Hamilton, Texas, hawking 1-cent bananas from his pushcart.\n\nHaskell Harelik had fled Russia to escape pogroms, docking not in Ellis Island but in Galveston, Texas, via a plan to route Eastern European Jews to the West. He spoke no English and was the first Jew the Hamilton residents had ever seen. But he found some friendly faces, and he stayed in that Baptist town, founding a dry goods store and raising three sons there.
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