Tag: Passover

Arielle Silver-Willner

Passover celebrates freedom. However we will only be free when our earth is healthy and able to support our lives for the long term.

Eight Days Celebrating Jewish Survival

Susan Barocas

As the Jews of Spain left Iberia, the largest number found safe haven in the Ottoman Empire. There the foods of the Sephardim, with recipes remembered and carried by the women, found a wonderful match with Ottoman cuisine.

This Passover, Keeping Us Safe

Bekkah Scharf

During this season of narrowness and liberation, what will you do to help foster true and lasting safety in your communities? How will you support Asian and other oppressed peoples who have been fighting for their liberation for decades?

Dayenu: Dispatches From the Covid Sick Ward

Martha Anne Toll

We call our doctor, who says to isolate her immediately, “Lock her up, do the deepest clean possible and leave food outside her door as needed.”

All-of-a-Kind Seder in the Time of Covid-19

Carolyn Abram

The board of health quarantines the fictional family, forcing Passover to be sorely reduced. It’s a lonely moment.

Turning Days of Distancing into Days of Reflection

Andrea Kott

Some folks are turning this time into an opportunity to begin exercising, bond with family and pets, clean closets, or garden. I am reliving the Days of Awe.

Food for Thought on Passover

Nechama Liss-Levinson

Let’s create new rituals and weave our food deprivations into our holistic understanding of what this Seder is and what it represents.

I Attended a Jews for Jesus Seder in France: Here’s How It Went

Marcie K. Bachar

I hadn’t contemplated what Jewish life abroad might look like or the compromises I might make. The landscape was that of Cezanne and Van Gogh, cobblestone streets, the ubiquitous skinny baguettes tucked under the arm. The seder, however, had an agenda.

Between Purim and Passover, a Plague

Rayzel Raphael

What if wee find we are more resilient than we knew?

There Was More to My Buba Than Her Bad Matzoh Balls

Kyla Kupferstein

Everyone who made up what would have been my Jewish family was lost in the War. No one taught my Buba to cook.