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PASSOVER – The Model Seder Begets Model Students

Julie Gruenbaum Fax April 6, 2006

Lingering clouds huddle at the eastern edge of Los Angeles\’ clear blue skyline, casting a dusty shadow over the snow-capped San Gabriel Mountains. Follow one of those meandering white trails down the mountain, and you\’ll find yourself at Weizmann Jewish Community Day School in the eastern foothills of Pasadena, where 38 students and 11 staff members occupy a stronghold of Jewish education in an area of Southern California not known for its overall Jewishness.

A Passover Surprise in Patagonia

Robin Esrock April 6, 2006

\”So, where are you doing the seder?\” asks my mother, on the other end of my computer\’s crackly speakers. I had just arrived in Patagonia, a beautiful region of Argentina, blessed with sparkling blue lakes, snow-capped mountains and forests on fire with the colors of fall.

Seders: Not Just for Pesach Anymore

Rahel Musleah September 22, 2005

Every holiday has its aura. Pesach has a scrubbed cleanliness; Purim, a cookie-dough indulgence, Sukkot, a back-to-nature thankfulness. Rosh Hashanah has its aura, too. For most of us, it\’s one that begins a season of awe, judgment and repentance.

Let My Students Go

Sharon Schatz Rosenthal April 21, 2005

Cecelie Wizenfeld is not alone in her efforts to find memorable ways of helping children connect with the holiday. While model seders, seder plate illustrations and handmade afikomen bags have become standard educational fare in the classroom, many Southland religious and day school teachers are finding that creative and unusual holiday projects make more of an impact.

Pesach Trip Options Beyond the Ordinary

Soriya Daniels March 31, 2005

Passover travel once meant shlepping to Miami Beach, where great operatic tenors like Robert Merrill and Jan Peerce would conduct the seder at a fancy-schmancy hotel, or to the Catskills, which was more haimish but just as fattening.

But Passover travel options today have expanded to include experiences ranging from Disney World to the Caribbean to a dude ranch in Wyoming. And you can get some decent deals on Miami Beach, too.

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?

Chametz 101

Rabbi Shawn Fields-Meyer March 21, 2002

In the dark of night, guided only by a slight illumination, we search the house. Carefully, we stride from room to room, investigating corners, checking furniture, examining windowsills. Finally, the search is complete: \’Tis the night before Pesach, and all the chametz (leavened food) has been swept away.

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