Passover

Messy Blond Dreadlocks of Grace

Wendy Block | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living

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I agonized for days and resolved that from then on, whenever someone asked I would give, even if just a dollar.

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Passover Memories in Jerusalem

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

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A holiday time seems to capture memories in a more powerful way than any other time of the year, and gives more significance to holidays as time goes on than they would otherwise have.

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So What If Obama Bowed? HALAS!

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.13.2009 | World

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The President is speaking a language of acceptance and outreach to the Muslim world that is quite sincere.

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What Do a Rabbit, Colored Eggs and Candy Have to Do With Jesus? The History of Easter Revealed

Kari Henley | Posted 05.11.2009 | Living

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Some old guy makes up a weird story about a goddess who never existed who turns a bird into a rabbit that lays colored eggs; and it morphs into a mega-watt holiday celebrated the modern world over.

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Why is This President Different from All Other Presidents?

David M. Abromowitz | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics

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A Presidential Seder might seem to many like an orange on a Seder plate. In this White House, however, a Seder seems, well, right in order.

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Ignorant Army Chief of Chaplains Proclaimed Day of Fasting for First Day of Passover

Chris Rodda | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics

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Maj. Gen. Douglas Carver, the Army's Chief of Chaplains, has managed to piss off quite a few Jewish soldiers, as well as many other Jewish Americans. ...

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Passover Tells a Story Familiar to Both Muslims and Jews

Parvez Ahmed | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

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Beneath the headlines that scream conflict are Jewish, Muslim and Christian hearts yearning to build a more hopeful future based on mutual understanding.

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Pharaohs Can't Celebrate Passover

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

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Observing Passover, the holiday celebrating the liberation of Jewish slaves from Egypt roughly 3,200 years ago, has become a problem for many Jews this year.

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Lighter Unto the Nations: Can Passover be Healthy?

Doree Lewak | Posted 05.10.2009 | Living

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With no choice but to cut out some of the usual suspects that hobble a healthy lifestyle, being a member of The Tribe may have never looked better. But with most things Jewish, it's not quite so simple.

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Stephen Colbert Frees His Jews In Passover Miracle (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.10.2009 | Comedy

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In an odd, yet touching, yet odd segment last night on the "Colbert Report," Stephen deduced that the sun's alignment coupled with the holy days of Pa...

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Obama Passover Seder UPDATE: Photo, Guest List, Menu

AP | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama hosted close friends and staff at a private White House meal Thursday evening to mark Passover. It's part of...

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How Passover Night Is Not So Different From All Other Nights

Susan Kaiser Greenland | Posted 05.09.2009 | Living

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Each year around the Passover holiday we pause, set aside all the to-ing and fro-ing for a moment, and rest.

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A Place at the Passover Table - for Pharoah

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

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It was late, maybe midnight When we opened the door for Elijah Fully expecting Aunt Ida, in sable. But it was Pharaoh that walked in to the wine and the whining.

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Easter and Passover: The Heart of the Matter in the Middle East

Eric Lurio | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

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"... Judged the gods of Egypt." That, in my humble opinion, is the most problematic phrase in the Bible. The words come from the book of Exodus, when ...

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Passover Facts: 6 Things You Didn't Know About Passover

David Weiner | Posted 06.17.2009 | New York

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If you want to impress your Jewish friends with some cool Passover facts, or if you need some good lines to break the ice with at your Seder, this is for you.

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Obama Passover Seder: First Ever Held At White House

AP | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, back at the White House after an overnight flight from Iraq, has no public events on his schedule Wednesday...

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'Blessing Of The Sun:' Jews Perform Sun Ritual For First Time In 28 Years

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Devout Jews around the world on Wednesday observed a ritual performed only once every 28 years, saying their morning prayers under t...

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Top 5 Passover Traditions From Around The World (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

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The Passover celebration begins today at sundown as Jewish communities around the world gather to tell the story of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt....

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West Side Story: The Original Spanish Version

Louise Mirrer | Posted 05.08.2009 | Entertainment

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The opening of the current hit revival of West Side Story so close to Easter and Passover is a good reminder of the twists and turns of both theatrical and world history.

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Meat Week

Varu Chilakamarri | Posted 05.02.2009 | Style

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Most of my male friends took his side. "Let him have his meat!" they cried, as if Meat Week stood for something more in the great power dynamic between men and women.

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Haggadah Get Out Of This Place

Alec Sokolow | Posted 04.30.2009 | Comedy

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When the powers that be deny him, Moses gets all David Blaine on them. He frees his skeptical peeps. Wanders around the desert for forty years. Questions God. And dies before reaching his new home, which probably was foreclosed on.

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Spring Holidays Around The World (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

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For many, the coming of spring marks the coming of the holiday season. Around the world people of many religions, cultures and nations gather this se...

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President Juban Princeling

Meredith Lopez | Posted 02.27.2009 | Style

In my letter to the Obamas, I explained that my son is also mixed heritage, like our new president: my baby is half-Jewish and half-Cuban, or Juban as they say in Miami.

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Passover Nutrition: From Motzah To Macaroons

Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent | Posted 04.27.2008 | Living

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For many of us, Passover is just like Thanksgiving or Christmas - a day to get together with our families and stuff ourselves silly. The food may be ...

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The Audacity to Haggadah

Alec Sokolow | Posted 03.30.2009 | Comedy

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What follows is a real life, non-practicing, reformed American Jew"ish" Haggadah. This is, as my Bubbi used to say as she was mimeographing anti-Franco literature at the ACLU, the real magilla.

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