Category
seders
The chametz within
Jewish Journal
March 28, 2013
Rejoice! Spring has arrived, and Pesach is here. The time of our liberation is at hand. The Exodus from our narrow straits is re-enacted once more.
JFS brings seders to seniors
Jewish Journal
March 21, 2013
For 34 years, Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles (JFS) has been holding seders for senior citizens across the Los Angeles area, sponsoring services and feeding those who have nowhere else to go during one of the most widely celebrated holidays on the festival calendar.
Calendar Picks and Clicks: March 16-22, 2013
Ryan Torok
March 13, 2013
Celebrate the Jewish people’s deliverance from Egyptian slavery with Pesach events that begin well before the first seder on March 25.
Poet’s Haggadah story
Jewish Journal
April 13, 2011
Every year at Passover, families around the world pull out their Haggadahs for their Seders, and whether they use a traditional text, a modern one, or even Maxwell House, the story and the words remain largely the same. But one man, Rick Lupert, saw an opportunity to do something more than produce just another slight tweaking of the classic text. And thus, the Poet\’s Haggadah was born.
Card-Table Tales
Sharon Rosen
April 14, 2005
I confess that most of my childhood Passover memories have nothing to do with the Passover story itself. How could they when seders were family dramas enacted against a backdrop of matzah and gefilte fish? Like most American Jewish kids, I started out observing the proceedings from a card table, fidgeting while the grown-ups read from the haggadah.
New Tales From a Post-Exodus Egypt
Naomi Pfefferman
April 8, 2004
Now that we\’ve just finished two seders celebrating our escape from Egypt, a new exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center demonstrates that not every Jew got out of Egypt — or wanted to.
Ritualized Equality
Debra Nussbaum Cohen
April 12, 2001
Woven into many Jews\’ seders when they sit down to celebrate Passover this year will be a spate of new traditions.
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