If you’re looking for something to listen to while you are preparing for the seder, and if you’re not preparing for the seder, if you are interested in the contemporary meaning of the seder and Passover, I highly recommend that you listen to the radio program Hatza’ah Le-Seder which features the author Yochi Brandes and [...]
Magash Hakesef has posted a report of Rabbi Benny Lau’s Shabbat ha-Gadol Derashah and a link to the derashah itself (Hebrew). Hag Kasher ve-Sameah.
This post is dedicated to the memory of Megan Charlop z”l, who was killed yesterday while riding her bicycle in the Bronx. Her life was filled with acts of hesed and she lived her life according to the Haggadah’s exhortation, “Let all who are hungry come and eat.” May her memory be for a blessing. [...]
I saw the following advertisement on a website. I wasn’t sure if this was anti-humra medicine, or anti-hametz (hamira) medicine. Although it is a long way until Purim, I wonder what some side effects might be.
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 derivatives [...]
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, March [...]
“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 to [...]
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