The haggadah speaks of the Four Sons: the wise, the wicked, the simple and the one who doesn\’t know how to ask. And on a good night in Hollywood, you can pick up all four. The first Saturday in March is a girls\’ night out (with the understanding we intend to pull men). Elizabeth, Sasha, Sarah and I throw on low-cut tops, low-rise pants and do the L.A. barhop thing.
Sharon\’s message to the left is this: Oslo has catastrophically failed, and it will take time to fix the damage.
For the past six years, a group of close friends in Buenos Aires have shared the second Passover seder together, along with their wives and children. But this year\’s will be their last.
Many people feel passionately about foods associated with Passover, the Jewish holiday claiming the largest number of courses per meal, but not everyone has the talent to weave tasty morsels into literature.
Passover is a special holiday for me and brings back many wonderful food memories.
In fact, for all the women interviewed in this article, having others judge their Pesach cleaning standards would be just another anxiety to add to their very full plate of pre-Pesach concerns — so they all asked to be quoted anonymously about their experiences cleaning for Pesach.
The pre-Pesach season is both exciting and disturbing to my family. Exciting, because due to our exuberant cleaning for the holiday, emptying drawers, overturning mattresses and, in general, preparing the house for a visit by Martha Stewart, we find all kinds of things that have been missing in action for months.
Twice a year, the high tides of Judaism crash on the shores of the disenfranchised. The chill of fall and the early blooms in spring are two occasions when I seek refuge from the waves of not belonging.
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