Does Hashem Wear Pyjamas? On The Unacknowledged Educators Of Seder Night
Joe Wolfson Amidst a flurry of early morning questions from my then three year old daughter a few years ago, one particular query stuck out for its comic strangeness and cuteness – does Hashem wear...
View ArticleSeinfeld at Your Seder
Esther Lindell Review of Sam Reinstein, The Haggadah About Nothing: The (Unofficial) Seinfeld Haggadah (2021). At first glance, Seinfeld doesn’t seem like a natural choice of a pop culture fandom...
View ArticleThe Lonely Seder, Take Two
Will Friedman As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches into its second year, people are beginning to experience their annual life events – birthdays, anniversaries, and more – disrupted for a second time....
View ArticleImagining Passover
Cleaning for Passover The moment Passover cleaning begins dust swirls like the grains of sand that swirled beneath our feet as we fled Egypt. The vacuum cleaner roars like the roar of waves at the...
View ArticleFrum and Free? Passover and Jewish Views on Liberty
A foundational value of modern Western democracies is freedom, or its sometimes-synonym liberty. Modern states quibble regarding the appropriate parameters of liberty, but they hold the principle as a...
View ArticleMiriam’s Song and the Persistence of Music in Dark Times
Rebecca Cypess The Song at the Sea (Exodus 15) offers an opportunity to reflect on the role of music within the lives of Bnei Yisrael during their enslavement in Egypt. Various commentators have...
View ArticleFrom Storage Cities to the Tabernacle: Building a New Civilization
Daniel R. Berkove It is hard to understand why Exodus is a single book. The first half of Exodus is the epic story of an enslaved people whom God frees, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm,...
View ArticleWhen the Sea Parted
Bruce Black My feet are stuckin wet mud, andmy head feels likeit’s still in Egypt unable to leavethe past behind,not wanting to takeanother step intothe unknown. My eyes sting from thespray of...
View ArticlePassover’s Rupture and Reconstruction
Yosef Lindell On Seder night, we tell our national story.[1] The Haggadah voices the Jewish tale of deliverance—from slavery to freedom, from Egypt to the Promised Land. But Pesah night was not...
View ArticleKi Ani Hashem: A Literary Analysis of the Makkot
Joshua Z. Shapiro I. IntroductionOne of the central tenets of the Jewish faith is that God took the Jewish people out of the land of Egypt. Whether through reciting the passages of shema, observing...
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