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It is marked
on the 27th day in the month of Nisan–a week after the seventh day of
Passover, and a week before Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day for Israel’s
fallen soldiers). Although the date was established by the Israeli
government, it has become a day commemorated by Jewish communities and
individuals worldwide. Surveys
conducted in the late 1950s indicated that young [...]

This last week has included passover, is the last week of classes before exams, and Jazz fest starts this weekend. It will be bad for another week, but then this cycle of exams will be over and we will return to posting interesting New Orleans tidbits. We dined on roasted turkey, matzo ball soup, Friedman [...]

Otherwise, I have to say Im uber jealous of all the fun people had at RT. I hope to go next year, but Id really like to have someone come with me that I know, kwim? I had a busy weekend with passover celebrations and last minute visits with out of town friends, so Ive [...]

Every year we go to the home of one of the families in our Havurah (”group”) from the temple for a seder. We have been getting together for most Jewish holidays with these five other families for about 11 years now. Last year at Passover we were amazed at how we “suddenly” had all of [...]

She-bkhol ha-layloht anu okhlin chameytz u-matzah, chameytz u-matzah. She-bkhol ha-layloht anu okhlin bayn yoshbin uvayn msoobin, bayn yoshbin uvayn msoobin. Ha-lahylah ha-zeh, ha-lahylah ha-zeh, koolanu msoobin? Why is this night different from all other nights? Why is it that on all other nights during the year we eat either bread or matzoh, but on this [...]

Monday will hit before anyone can make it to Seattle’s Jewish bookstore (yes, singular) and the Haggadot will probably be picked-over, anyway, and we really don’t want to buy something we don’t like very much. If anyone here has a link to a complete, fairly traditional, but not too complicated, Haggadah with both English and [...]

The *worst* part of Passover, IMO, is doing dishes by hand. Tonight is the night for Search For Chametz, which is the Jewish equivalent of the Easter Egg Hunt. We take a bread item and divide it into 10 pieces. I put them into ziplock baggies so that my clean house doesn’t get bread crumbs [...]

Professor Susannah Heschel, a leading Jewish feminist scholar who holds the Eli Black Chair in Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College explains the origin of this modern custom. Heschel’s father is the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, a prominent scholar of Jewish ethics and a civil rights leader who participated with [...]

For those of you who don’t know, Tam Tams are wonderful, yummy, not-low-cal crackers made Kosher for Passover each year. Passover isn’t always the most “Green” of holidays - we throw out stuff, we clean frantically, we might use a lot of disposables or papergoods. So here is Hazon’s take on sustainable Passover resources. What [...]

Because corn syrup is made from one of the five no-no grains, it’s considered chametz and is therefore forbidden during Passover (along with anything made from wheat, oats, barley, rye, and spelt). While Georgetown’s food columnist, she investigated the cafeteria’s omelet station, Hoya coffeeshop’s cultish pumpkin muffins, and what exactly the basketball players ate. They [...]

Passover is approaching fast to reveal loads of opportunities to shower your friends with inspirational Passover wishes. Well, there’s much to do and much more planning is needed if you want to make the holiday a perfect blast. And who doesn’t like to do that? I still remember my childhood days, when the used to [...]

The most widely celebrated Jewish festival, Passover (which begins at sundown April 19), also known by its Hebrew name Pesach, commemorates the ancient Israelites’ liberation from Egyptian slavery. At a Passover Seder, a celebratory meal, the story of the exodus is retold through readings, rituals and symbolic foods. While some foods, such as matzo and [...]

Thats why the rabbis instituted bedikat chametz, which is much trickier. In addition to writing off chametz as dust, you also have to search out any chametz you can find, and destroy it. These are the places where you’re most likely to have crumbs of old food that’s still edible, and thus technically chametz. Learn [...]

Instinctively, truly without even thinking about it, I said to Rory, “you should say a prayer for her.” Her mother is Catholic, and I am Jewish; and if you asked her what religion she is; Perry would say she is “both.” Some would argue ‘neither.’ She has never been formally educated in a religious sense. [...]

Instinctively, truly without even thinking about it, I said to Rory, “you should say a prayer for her.” Her mother is Catholic, and I am Jewish; and if you asked her what religion she is; Perry would say she is “both.” Some would argue ‘neither.’ She has never been formally educated in a religious sense. [...]

Symmary:
Instinctively, truly without even thinking about it, I said to Rory, “you should say a prayer for her.” Her mother is Catholic, and I am Jewish; and if you asked her what religion she is; Perry would say she is “both.” Some would argue ‘neither.’ She has never been formally educated in a religious sense. [...]

Symmary:
Instinctively, truly without even thinking about it, I said to Rory, “you should say a prayer for her.” Her mother is Catholic, and I am Jewish; and if you asked her what religion she is; Perry would say she is “both.” Some would argue ‘neither.’ She has never been formally educated in a religious sense. [...]

Symmary:
Instinctively, truly without even thinking about it, I said to Rory, “you should say a prayer for her.” Her mother is Catholic, and I am Jewish; and if you asked her what religion she is; Perry would say she is “both.” Some would argue ‘neither.’ She has never been formally educated in a religious sense. [...]