How do I make a seder?
Jewish Journal
April 2, 2015
Passover, as we all know, is a key religious holiday. The problem is, the seder often lasts more than two hours. Too long for our active toddler.
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April 2, 2015
How the wicked son became wise: a Passover parable
Ryan Torok
April 2, 2015
I’ve spent too many Passovers to count preoccupied with the two choices: the wise son or the wicked son.
A prayer for an incoming Knesset member
Jewish Journal
April 2, 2015
Bar-Or wrote this on the election to the Knesset of his friend Roy Folkman, a member of the Kulanu Party.
Stop waiting for the bus
Jewish Journal
April 2, 2015
So much of the discussion about mass transit in Los Angeles is about the future.
Imagining a seder in my home a century ago
Jewish Journal
April 2, 2015
With 30-minute seders, food drives for the hungry and boxes of perfectly baked matzah, we like to think that in 2015 we have finally achieved a modern, socially relevant and easy-to-observe Passover.
Moving and Shaking: Jeffrey Katzenberg, Harvey Weinstein, Rabbi David Wolpe and more
Ryan Torok
April 2, 2015
As the night’s master of ceremonies at the Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance annual national tribute dinner, Jeffrey Katzenberg had two big jobs — to keep the presentations to heroes who’d risked their lives to save others moving along like clockwork and to convince the crowd that the night’s top honoree, Harvey Weinstein, is a good guy and a true humanitarian.
A mother’s campaign for a cure
Jewish Journal
April 2, 2015
When her son Calvin was diagnosed with Pitt-Hopkins syndrome (PTHS), a rare genetic disorder characterized by delayed physical development and severe mental retardation that has been identified in only about 300 people worldwide, Audrey Davidow Lapidus knew she had a choice: Succumb to despair or make a difference. She chose the latter.
Redemption: The good, the bad and the ugly
Jewish Journal
April 2, 2015
It should have been that our ancestors’ redemption from slavery meant they were finally free. That was what they had cried out for, after all: freedom from their enslavement.
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