Posts Tagged: Passover 2021
Global Freedom on the Decline
JNS.org - Passover is a celebration of freedom, but its underlying story is a salutary reminder that freedom is a fragile thing and that achieving...
The Most Unlikely Passover Seder
JNS.org - On the eve of Passover, I was one of 13 people driving through the rolling sand dunes between Abu Dhabi and the remote...
This Passover, a Song of Thanks
JNS.org - It’s hard to believe that only a year has passed since Passover of 5780 (2020). Since the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gafner of...
What Kind of Freedom Do We Celebrate on Passover?
The New York Review of Books recently devoted a lot of space to a review of “The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of...
Passover and the US-Israel Bond
Here's a quick Passover recap: According to Heinrich Heine, the 19th century German poet, “Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.” Professor Yehudah...
Why the Seder and Exodus Should Make Us Optimistic
Countless studies have explored the usefulness of optimism as a psychological phenomenon, and all of them have demonstrated that optimists have a higher quality of...
Passover Seder’s Takeaways Speak to the Woke Divide
JNS.org - This Saturday night in the midst of the loosening COVID-19 pandemic and the tightening of America’s cancel culture pandemic, Jewish families will celebrate...
Passover and Preserving History in 2021
Cecil B. Demille’s famous film "The Ten Commandments" was a massive box office hit. Decades before, in 1923, Demille made a silent film of the...
The Seder and the Stories We Retell
Imagine bringing a guest to your family’s seder -- a newcomer to the Pesach traditions. “We will tell the story of our journey from slavery...
What I’ve Learned Teaching Jewish Texts in the UAE
JNS.org - In 2011, on one of my first trips to the United Arab Emirates, I sat in on a class taught by then-New York...
Does the Haggadah Teach the Meaning of Life?
JNS.org - Some Jews can’t get enough of the inspiration it offers for questions and debate. Others grow up counting pages in it, waiting, often...
This Passover, Let Us Release Our Anger
Operation Warp Speed was an unreported success of the Trump administration, in the unprecedented marshaling of public and private resources to develop multiple COVID-19 vaccines...
