Posts Tagged: Pesach 2021
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...
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...
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...