Category
haggadah
Ilan Stavans’ ‘New World Haggadah’ for the modern world
Jewish Journal
March 17, 2016
Ilan Stavans feels the time has come for the diversity of the modern Jewish experience to be reflected in the Haggadah we read at our Passover seders.
The Jewish Bernie Sanders who only Vermonters know
Jewish Journal
October 21, 2015
Bernie Sanders reads from the Passover Haggadah in Hebrew and jokes with his seder hosts about finding hametz, traces of leavening, after they have thoroughly cleaned the house in preparation for the holiday.
Bringing new questions to the seder table
Jewish Journal
April 2, 2015
With Passover upon us, an almost universal association with the biblically based holiday is the reciting of the four questions, commonly chanted by the youngest person seated at the seder table.
Pharoah said ‘no.’ You won’t believe what God did next.
Marty Kaplan
April 2, 2015
Once, at our seder, our friend Ira gave a running commentary on the haggadah, offering a scientific explanation for every miracle and wonder in the Exodus story.
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