This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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Opinion Even during a plague, choice is destiny
BG IMG LINK Previous Article Next Article In the book of Job, after Job has suffered great losses, his friends come to comfort him. Finding Job sitting on the ground covered in boils, they throw dust up in the air and onto their heads (Job 2:12). A modern Israeli scholar, Meir Weiss, suggests this may…
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Opinion Anti-COVID cleansing gets a lesson from the Torah: We don’t control everything.
BG IMG LINK Previous Article Next Article I’ve slid back into old habits over the past two weeks. I struggle with obsessive hand and body washing, as a way of coping with past sexual trauma. My body feels polluted and tainted, and I wash it obsessively to provide some momentary relief from these feelings. At…
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Opinion This Passover will be different from all others — and there’s freedom in that
BG IMG LINK Previous Article Next Article Passover is the birthday of the Jewish people. We went down to Egypt as a family, but we left Egypt as a people. For thousands of years, we have celebrated that birthday, but this year’s Passover will be different from all other Passovers. During the original Passover, Jewish…
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Opinion In the 11th plague, all the world are neighbors
BG IMG LINK Previous Article Next Article Though we will be without guests this Passover, we will remain with neighbors. The eating of the pascal lamb was a collective event, a bonfire frenzy of hungry spiritual brothers (and sisters). But the story of Exodus begins with neighbors. After all, the Egyptians and Hebrews lived side…
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Culture ‘Everyone’s talking about the plagues:’ Making haggadahs for a Passover unlike any before
When Rishe Groner, a rabbinical student spending the year in Jerusalem, began self-isolating in her apartment in mid-March, she was already thinking ahead to Passover. She hoped that restrictions imposed by Israeli authorities to curb the spread of COVID-19 would lift in time for the holiday, allowing her to organize a Seder with other single…
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Opinion Darkness is the absence of recognition
BG IMG LINK Previous Article Next Article “Moses held out his arm toward the sky and thick darkness descended upon all the land of Egypt for three days. People could not see one another, and for three days no one could get up from where he was.” (Exodus 10:22-23) When he was twelve, Aryeh Even…
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Life Passover therapy: Our holiday expert asked 6 rabbis to reflect on this very different year
It’s amazing how a slogan that wasn’t hackneyed two weeks ago is already tired: Why is this Passover different from other Passovers? But it’s apt. This is the first Passover in my lifetime that Jews will be forced apart during a holiday that is entirely about being together. This is the first Passover for many…
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News “We put out a call;” Twin Cities man collects seder plates for first-time Passover hosts
On Thursday afternoon, Thryn Hare drove to a Minneapolis house where a cluster of seder plates was lying in the yard. They were a mismatched bunch — some engraved with flowery Hebrew letters, some sleek and modern, one patterned to look like matzah — but all would enliven a Passover table, and all were free…
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