This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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News At BYU Seder, Mormons Dip, Eat, Sing Their Own ‘Dayenu’
Inside the student center, the tables were set with all of the Passover staples: bitter herbs, haroset, parsley sprigs and salt water, a Haggadah at each place setting. By 6:15 on a recent Friday evening, the hall had filled up with college and graduate students, alumni, faculty and a smattering of “townies” — more than…
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News 300 Goats and Sheep, 20 Slaughterers, One Willful Rabbi
Making Seder for the extended family seems like child’s play compared with Rabbi Yehudah Glick’s Passover preparations. The New York-born Glick is getting ready to lead world Jewry in a Paschal sacrifice April 18, the first night of Passover. According to the Torah, the Children of Israel were commanded “in perpetuity” to sacrifice a young…
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Culture The Four Sons
Eli Valley draws the Four Sons expressing their views on how we in America might understand Egyptian freedom: Click on the thumbnail to the right for a larger version: Eli Valley is finishing his first novel. His column, “Comics Rescued From a Burning Synagogue in Bialystok and Hidden in a Salt Mine Until After the…
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Culture Four Questions for Poetry Month
As part of the Poetry Month celebration hosted by the Forward, we asked a number of poets about their practice. Today we’re featuring the highlights of the responses received. These are the highlights, but elsewhere on the Forward’s website, we’ve put the more detailed interview scripts. And, as part of its ongoing poem a day…
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Culture Meet The Poets
Meet the poets who answered our Four Questions this Pesach: ADEENA KARASICK, an internationally acclaimed award-winning poet and media artist, is a professor of global literature at St. John’s University, in New York. MATTHUE ROTH’S poetry has appeared everywhere from Australian subways to HBO. He’s the co-creator of the animated Torah series at G-dcast.com. KAREN…
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Culture Expanding Freedom in Today’s World
Nourish the Hungry By Ruth Messinger Whether we’re eating bread or matzo, legumes or leafy greens, our relationship to food is something more than 1 billion people around the world can’t imagine. Why? Because they are chronically hungry, enslaved to a global economy that prevents them from having the food they need to survive. The…
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Culture The Kitniyot Question: What’s a Convert To Do?
The question of kitniyot presents an interesting challenge for the converted. Kitniyot — literally, “little things” — is the umbrella term used for the specific foods not eaten during Passover in the Ashkenazi tradition, including rice, corn, beans and lentils. It’s a practice whose origins are unclear; but what is clear is that this anti-legume…
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Culture From South Africa, an Activist’s Recipe Recalls the Power of Food
The early years of Nelson Mandela’s life as an organizer and revolutionary were marked by cross-cultural experiences centered around the table, even when such alliances were frowned upon politically. The Indian South African community, and the solidarity it showed in passive resistance campaigns, deeply influenced Mandela’s later mass actions and encouraged Mandela and his colleagues…
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