This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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Culture 10 Ways to Make a More Modern Seder
The modern American Seder is as varied as the families who gather to celebrate it. There are more than 1,600 Haggadot to choose from, including a hip-hop version for those who want to rap their Seder tunes, an ecological Haggadah that asks us to consider the trees and a 30-Minute Seder that has you nibbling…
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Life A Poet’s Lens Into a Violent Marriage
Photograph courtesy of Jehanne Dubrow The Arranged Marriage is Jehanne Dubrow’s powerful new volume of poetry, and it bears witness to her Jewish Honduran mother Jeannette’s complicated life story. Her family left Germany in the late 1930s for Honduras, and Jeannette was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1946 for medical reasons. Immediately after the…
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Opinion The Elusive Search for the Ideal Seder
Like many American Jews, I attend a Seder each year. And like many American Jews, I often end the evening both in awe of the tradition and with a few ideas on how I could make the next Seder a little bit better. Less salt in the soup. How can I get everyone to sing?…
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Opinion The #BlackLivesMatter Haggadah
Sarah Quinter The Haggadah insists on being relentlessly current, asking that each year we read ourselves and our struggles into the ancient saga of the Jewish exodus from Egypt. So it’s not altogether surprising that a few young Jewish writers, primarily Jews of color, have compiled a #BlackLivesMatter Haggadah Supplement for the organization Jews for…
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The Schmooze With Passover Plague Videos Like These, Who Needs the Maccabeats?
Holiday-themed parody video are usually lame, and cringe-inducing. Exhibit A: This Passoverized version of “Uptown Funk.” But sometimes, you get that one gem that makes it all worth it. Nina Paley has given us such a golden unicorn with her animation of each of the ten plagues (props to our good friends at Heeb for…
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News Is Smoking Kosher for Passover — and What About Pot?
Smoking is one of those topics that ties rabbis up in knots, and marijuana just clouds the issue even more. And that’s before Jewish dietary laws even come into it. Yes, smoking is now acknowledged to be bad for you, so indulgence ostensibly contravenes the command not to desecrate the body. But it is also…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Backs Off ‘Obama Is Haman’ Rant
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin reversed his earlier comparison of President Obama to the biblical villain Haman, saying that Iran — not the president — is comparable to the ancient enemy of the Jews. In an interview Wednesday, Riskin, the American-born chief rabbi of the West Bank settlement of Efrat and the founder of New York City’s…
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News Celebrating Holiday of Freedom in an Israeli Desert Jail
Perhaps the most relevant Seder in Israel took place in the most isolated of places. The Holot Residency Center is located near the border with Egypt, an hour’s ride southwest from the city of Beersheba into the desert. This detention facility is home to people like Mutasim Ali, who fled the war-torn Darfur region in…
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