The youngest reads the Four Questions. What if the youngest is terrified?
Singing the Four Questions traditionally falls to the youngest child at the Passover Seder. It's a much loved, and sometimes dreaded, tradition.
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Culture Can ChatGPT answer The Four Questions?
I gave the AI program our usual Passover queries — here’s what happened
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The Schmooze How Do You Ask The Four Questions In Swahili?
Over recent years, a curious tradition has cropped up in many traditional Jewish family seders: The recitation of the Four Questions in a variety of languages. “Jewish children have been reciting the Ma Nishtana for about a hundred generations and…in many different countries,” writes Ilana Kurshan in her book, “Why Is This Night Different from…
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Opinion A Very Klingon Passover — Starting With The 4 Questions
Michael Burstein kindly provided the Four Questions in Klingon to those of his readers in the Federation of Planets celebrating Pesach (Passover). The Four Questions In Klingon qatlh pImlaw’ ramvam rammey latlh je? qaStaHvIS Hoch rammey “Hametz” “Matza” je DISop, ‘ach qaStaHvIS ramvam’e’, “Matza” neH wISop. qaStaHvIS Hoch rammey, Hoch tI wISop, ‘ach qaStaHvIS ramvam’e’,…
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Opinion The Four Questions of the ‘Israel Project’
HOLLYWOOD — Day two in Tinseltown, and people have been asking me questions. Thought that was my job… One question was about my questions. Why bother asking “Israel questions” of Americans? There is no way that Americans are going to come up with the same answers as Israelis, so what’s the point? My answer to…
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Life Child Nutrition Seders Fight Hunger
Ten O’clock in the morning might be a little early for a Passover Seder, especially if one intends to drink all four glasses of wine. But this was a Seder with a cause, and for dozens of Capitol Hill staffers, anti-hunger activists and students, its seemed just right. The Congressional Seder on March 18 was…
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