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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.
Let’s leave Obama out of our seders
David Suissa
April 1, 2015
Jews have big mouths. Put those big mouths in a society that reveres freedom of speech and it’s a sight to behold.
Did the Exodus happen?
Dennis Prager
April 16, 2014
With Passover here, it is a propitious time to address the central issue of the holiday: the Exodus. Specifically, did the Exodus happen?
Hollywood and the Nazis: Two historians, two opinions
Jewish Journal
September 12, 2013
The study of history never lends itself to a single unambiguous view of the past. For history is, as the British scholar E.H. Carr observed in his famous 1961 book “What is History?” “a continuous process of interaction between the historian and his facts, an unending dialogue between the past and the present.”
Exodus script: For your seder table
Jewish Journal
March 22, 2013
The following text is excerpted from “The Bronfman Haggadah,” written by Edgar Bronfman with illustrations by Jan Aronson (Rizzoli, 2012).
Is there a shortcut to redemption
Jewish Journal
March 4, 2013
Pesach – the Hebrew name for Passover– comes from the Hebrew root PSH which means to skip over, to pass over. It appears first in the context of the ten plagues, in which God skipped over the homes of the Israelites while the rest of Egypt suffered.
For a Thanksgiving seder, it’s all about the ‘hodu’
Jewish Journal
November 12, 2012
Sitting down to the well-set table every November, even though it is filled with family and food, I always feel that something is missing — a Jewish connection to the Thanksgiving story.
Receiving happiness (Exodus 33:12-34:26, Numbers 29:17-31)
Jewish Journal
October 3, 2012
Sometimes we just can’t do as God asks. Our burden is too great. I run into this often when visiting hospital patients and their families during the High Holy Days. They feel mad at God for their circumstances and conflicts.
At Passover, let my people go south
Jewish Journal
April 4, 2012
Passover celebrates the Exodus of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt, their wandering in the desert for 40 years, and their ultimate deliverance to the Promised Land.
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