Spiritual Cleaning
Judy Gruen
March 25, 2004
There\’s something very ironic about Pesach. Why is it that getting ready to celebrate our liberation from slavery involves so much hard work?
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Miriam Meditations
Hank Rosenfeld
May 15, 2003
Too much driving and dreaming makes me practically a native here, I suppose. When I complained to my friend Stuart back East, he said: \”Slow down. Pull over. Take a class.\”
A Date With Passover Memories
Rahel Musleah
April 17, 2003
Once a year, soon after Purim, my parents lug down the hydraulic press from their attic.
Leaving Mitzrayim
Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben
March 28, 2002
It was my third seder of the week, but this one was unlike any other. It was a "Seder of Women\’s Voices," and I felt privileged to be one of the few men in the room among a 150 or so women.
Why Is This Seder Different?
Dafna Hochman
March 28, 2002
Every year, the retelling of the story of Passover sparks the same intergenerational debate around our family\’s seder table. Like singing \”Dayenu\” or eating charoset, we look forward to our traditional discussion of the nature and extent of anti-Semitism. My father, with my grandmother cheering on, argues that anti-Semitism is alive and, alas, well.
Pre-Pesach Culinary Blues
Judy Gruen
March 21, 2002
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.
New Plagues
Marlene Adler Marks
March 21, 2002
Are the Ten Plagues merely a just reward perpetrated against the \”axis of evil\” by a God who is \”on our side\”?
Strangers at the Feast
Ellen Jaffe-Gill
April 5, 2001
My worst Passover was my first in Los Angeles, more than half a lifetime ago. I had nowhere to go the first night, and the second night, a college friend took me to an institutional seder that was so sterile and faceless that I went home early and, paraphrasing Scarlett O\’Hara, vowed, \”As God is my witness, I\’ll never go without a seder again.\”
Seder Storytelling
Rabbi Paul J. Kipnes
March 29, 2001
Whether you believe the exodus from Egypt is historical reality or myth containing the power of religious truth, the Pesach story tells Jews who we were, who we are and how we must live our lives.
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