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Maury Yeston,

In The Beginning

Probably the best showtune about the exodus that you’ve never heard. (thanks to Jo for bringing it to my attention)

Gefilta fish in process (Taken with Cinemagram)

Ira - are you also in Delray for Passover?

Something I just wrote on Grindr.

Most polls confirm the centrist persona of the Israeli majority. Asked whether they support a two-state solution, upwards of 70 percent of Israelis respond affirmatively. Asked whether a two-state solution would bring peace, upwards of 80 percent say no. In other words: Israelis want to be doves, but reality forces them to be hawks…

What most depresses me is that this insight - by now commonplace in Israeli discourse - comes as a revelation to many American Jews. The two most important Jewish communities in the world aren’t communicating.

Yossi Klein Halevi, Pesach Jews Vs. Purim Jews: The Agony of our Dilemma

Sometimes I’m hot and cold on Judaism…

…but last night, when it was approaching midnight and we were all full of a delicious meal and pretty sloshed thanks to several bottles of wine and scream-singing Psalm 136, in Hebrew, to the tune of the Bannana Boat Song, I remembered everything I like about this whole nonsense we call religion.

Added marshmallows to my tzimmes with kishkes. Best worst idea ever. #Passover

passover

One of my favorite ways to celebrate a holiday is with the release of a concept album. Unfortunately, 2006’s Plague Songs doesn’t quite do it for me. And yet, there’s something to be said for Imogen Heap’s “Glittering Cloud,” her take on the plague of locusts.

My wife and I like to take the Jewish holiday of Passover and invite as many gentile friends as we can to the traditional dinner ceremony. Many are thrilled to be invited to the new experience and eagerly accept… only to find out that us inviting them to the five hour dinner ceremony of reading the history of the Jews from the seder is our version of a Jewish practical joke. I mean, the Jews had to suffer through the desert for forty days and forty nights… we’re going to make as many of you suffer as we can get our hands on. Hee hee.

Brian Michael Bendis, Fortune and Glory

(Never mind that he has a day school education and is the son of a rabbi and doesn’t know the difference between 40 days and 40 years of wandering.)

Passover

Carolee Carmello,

Elegies

thestepsofthepalace:

Passover -Elegies (Carolee Carmello)

because..it’s passover tonight.

Holy shit Passover is tomorrow.

From ASK A RABBI: Every year one of my cousins tries to derail the seder by insisting that the story of the Exodus never happened so we shouldn’t talk about it like history. How can I turn this into a productive discussion at the seder?

(Answered by Rabbi Carl Perkins of Temple Aliyah, Needham, MA… and his answer might surprise you…)

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From ASK A RABBI: Every year one of my cousins tries to derail the seder by insisting that the story of the Exodus never happened so we shouldn’t talk about it like history. How can I turn this into a productive discussion at the seder?