This Sunday, March 14, there is a day of study to prepare for Passover at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue. Details can be found here. One of the talks looked particularly interesting.
Rabbi Yigal Sklarin, Talmud & Jewish History Teacher, Ramaz:
Using Italian Renaissance Art to Understand Halacha: The Laws of Mezuzah in Renaissance Italy
Whether Ashkenazim should continue to observe the prohibition of eating kitniyot on Passover has been discussed ad nauseam for quite some time. IMHO, do whatever you want and get over it. Personally, I eat any kitniyot which were not known in Ashkenaz during the 12-13th centuries, e.g. corn, when this custom took root and [...]
Between the years 1930-1960 over five hundred haggadot were printed on kibbutzim. See here for some examples. Recently a book has been published which collects many of these texts and tells their story. Below are two examples of the “Four Questions” from two different Kibbutz Haggadot from 1939.
Hag Kasher Sameah.
Source: Niv ha-Kevutzah, [...]
“On the Passover of 1917, the Turkish rulers of the country ordered the residents of Tel-Aviv to evacuate the city. Almost 8,000 people were listed for expulsion. A sense of dispossession accompanied the eviction notice. The expulsion was in effect exile from the homeland. Anxiety-ridden settlers prepared to leave their homes, although not from Egypt [...]
The O-U won’t give peanut oil a hecksher for Passover anymore although at one point they did, (see here) but these advertisements from Panim el Panim tell a different story.
The Schechter Haggadah (see more here) is reviewed in Ynet News. (hat tip) I recently received my copy and I don’t hesitate to say that it is a beautiful and very informative haggadah which will enrich anyone’s seder. To order you can download the form from here and email it to atalia@schechter.ac.il or fax [...]
A must-buy for all those interested in the history of the haggadah and the seder from my good friend Josh Kulp:
The Schechter Haggadah: Art, History and Commentary presents a fascinating discussion and analysis of the historical development of each aspect of the Seder, from the development of the Mah Nishtanah to the use of horseradish [...]
A post to ha-Safran by YD draws our attention to the following press release:
The central Chabad-Lubavitch library in New York made 1,000 Passover Haggadahs, many of them rare, available on the Internet for browsing by the public. The Agudas Chasidei Chabad Library has one of the largest collections of the Passover orders of service in [...]
The Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies has just announced the following two acquisitions:
1. The Stephen and Dedee Lovell Collection of Haggadot containing approximately 1200 Haggadot printed between 1670-1960.
2. The Morris and Beverly Baker Collection of Haggadot containing approximately 1300 Haggadot printed between 1960-2005.
See R. David Golinkin’s responsum on the question of how one should conduct themselves when Erev Pesach falls on Shabbat. For more of his responsa that are on-line see here.
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