EDITORS NOTE: All details of Edwin Black’s Passover coverage are taken faithfully from Exodus, Chapters 5-15, plus Rashi’s Commentary. By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — Approximately two million Children of Israel are now encamped in the Sinai following their extraordinary exodus from Egypt yesterday. Just days ago, they were slaves to Pharaoh. Today, they […]
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Edwin Black, Jewish ReligionBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Passover and Easter are upon us, or Pesach (פסח) in Hebrew and Pascha for the Christian holiday in a number of languages other than English. Although the vast majority of Jews and Christians celebrate their feasts without a overt recognition of their dependence, there would be no Easter without Passover. The similarity
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Ira Sharkansky, Jewish ReligionNEW YORK (Press Release)–International hackers are setting their sights on Jewish and Israeli targets as part of what has become an annual anti-Israel cyber-attack campaign. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which is tracking cyber campaigns against Jewish and Israeli targets around the world, issued a security advisory this week to Jewish institutions in the U.S. about
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday afternoon, April 2, participated in the ceremony to sell the State of Israel’s hametz, by virtue of his serving as Finance Minister. Chief Rabbis David Lau and Yitzhak Yosef, and Abu Ghosh resident Hussein Jabar, who purchased the country’s hametz, also attended the ceremony. Prime Minister
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Daniel Sokatch NEW YORK — Passover is my favorite holiday. Every year, we slow down, step back and commemorate what, in my opinion, is one of the greatest gifts the Jewish people have given to the world: the story of Exodus from Egypt, the ultimate narrative of hope, liberation, and possibility. This story, our
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CHURACHANDPUR, Manipur, India (Press Release) – More than 550 members of the Bnei Menashe community from the northeastern Indian state of Manipur participated in a massive pre-Passover “Model Seder” Tuesday night, March 31, at the Shavei Israel Hebrew Center in Churachandpur to mark the upcoming holiday and learn about Passover practices and customs. The Bnei
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International, Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — A bittersweet irony it is that the freedom festival of Passover arrives on the 47th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and one day before the rebirth of hope—Easter Sunday. We go to our April festivals this year with a thousand cuts on our soul—from
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAThe Lieberman Open Orthodox Haggadah, Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld. Gefen Publisher Jerusalem & New York, 2015. 178pp By David Strom SAN DIEGO —The Lieberman Open Orthodox Haggadah, by Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld is a very welcome addition to the many different types of haggadahs that exists today. This is an Orthodox traditional haggadah, but with a twist.
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Passover is a time to spend time with those we care most about and give thanks for the lives we have been allowed to live. Passover has always been a time that I reflect not only upon our people’s release from slavery, but also on those that are forced to live under repressive conditions today
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International, Jewish ReligionNEW YORK (Press Release) — The 2015 Nominating Committee of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations has recommended Stephen Greenberg, Chairman of NCSEJ – National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry– to serve as Chairman beginning June 1, 2015. Mr. Greenberg has a long history of Jewish communal involvement. Early on, he served as National
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Jewish Religion, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — As the calendar marches to Passover, we received today (March 31) from friends Abe and Bea Goldberg this YouTube video contemplating each of seven symbols of the holiday: Matzah, Four Cups of Wine, Charoseth, Maror, Karpas, Salt Water, and Roasted Egg. Wishing all of our readers a Hag
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Jewish ReligionJERUSALEM (WJC) — In a video message, the hacker group Anonymous has threatened Israel with an “electronic Holocaust” over the Passover holiday. The massive cyber attack on 7 April would fall just over a week before Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day on 16 April. The video shows a masked figure in a suit and tie delivering a prepared statement, warning that
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By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — A delegation of eight ZAKA International Rescue Unit volunteers flew in the early hours of Monday morning to assist in the search and recovery mission at the site of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps. ZAKA volunteers will offer their extensive experience and expertise in international
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – In the aftermath of Governor Mike Pence of Indiana signing a statewide Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Rachel Laser, Deputy Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, released the following statement: “We are deeply concerned by the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which highlights the broad, damaging effects of the
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