March 2007
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Having a Child-Friendly Passover
By Janet Harris
Just as we take off our Purim masks and have our fill of hamentaschen, Passover is upon us. This year, Passover begins at sundown on the evening of Monday, April 2. At Passover, we retell the story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt, from slavery to freedom. The sage Maimonides teaches us that, “One must make changes on this night, so the children will notice and ask: Why is this night different?”
The Passover Seder (Seder means “order”) is our way of telling this central story both for our own benefit, so we remember and reinterpret the themes of Passover, and especially for the benefit of our children... [Continued]
Passover Readings You Can Add to Your Hagaddah*
By Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael
Here are two additions to the Passover Seder that interfaith and other families may want to include in their service.
Adding an Artichoke to the Seder Plate
The Seder plate holds the main symbols of a traditional Passover Seder – the shank bone, egg, karpas (green vegetable), charoset, and maror (bitter herbs). The Kabbalists of the Middle Ages added hazeret, another kind of bitter lettuce. And in recent years feminists have added an orange on the Seder plate to symbolize women's leadership roles and full empowerment in Jewish life.
The artichoke is a new development. What is an artichoke? Surely a work of God's imagination! Many petals, with thistle and a heart. To me this has come to represent the Jewish people... [Continued]
* This article is excerpted from a story on www.InterfaithFamily.com.
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Passover! The most celebrated Jewish holiday in America! Many folks will be heading to the “usual” place – parents, an uncle or dear friends. But in the Bay Area where the mobility rate is high, you may not have put down roots enough to get invited to someone’s home for Seder... [Continued] |
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As March approaches, many of us in the Jewish/interfaith community are looking forward to the festivities of Purim in the beginning of the month (beginning at sunset on March 4) and will be starting to prepare for the celebration of Passover, which begins with the first Seder at sunset on April 2... [Continued]
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A Freedom Seder for Darfur is slated for Tuesday, March 20, 6:30 p.m., at the Osher Marin JCC. The annual Seder is sponsored by Jewish Community Relations Council to celebrate multi-cultural traditions of the struggle for justice and freedom... [Continued]
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Passover begins on the 15th day of Nissan, which corresponds to Monday night, April 2. Sometimes called the Festival of Freedom, Passover celebrates the Israelites’ deliverance from Egypt’s bondage more than 3200 years ago. Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills has two Seders which you are invited to participate in... [Continued] |
