Posted in Current Events, Interfaith, Israel, Judaism, Pesach, Religion on April 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a great sign of our Passover times: the JTA reported today that an Arab teenager recently won an annual Pesach contest in Israel:
Malek Sharkiyeh, a Muslim ninth-grader from Acco, took the $300 prize this week in a competition by Israel’s ORT school system for Haggadah illustrations.
“The subject of the Haggadah exhilarated me,” Sharkiyeh told [...]
Posted in Judaism, Pesach, Religion on April 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
If you thought that my earlier post spotlighting the Matzah boxer shorts was in poor taste, just take a look at the matzah kitsch below. The matzah toilet seat cover embossed with the words “Let my people go” has got to be a sure sign that Armageddon is close at hand.
(I will say, tho, that [...]
Posted in Judaism, Pesach, Religion on April 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If you’ve already gotten started on your Pesach shopping, you might want to grab the latest in seder fashion…
Posted in Food, Judaism, Pesach on March 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This just in: there will be no Tam Tams on your table this Pesach.
You heard me right. Manichewitz recently announced that due to unforeseen delays at their “brand-new, state-of-the-art, computer-controlled” Newark plant, the company has been forced to cut back on several of their matzah products and will not be producing any Tam Tams [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Judaism, Pesach, Religion, Religion/Politics, Spirituality on April 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Hope everyone had a wonderful Pesach. Here’s a nice moment from one of my seders:
It was brought to my attention (thanks Lesley Williams!) that the evening of second seder was also the anniversary of MLK’s “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech (which he delivered in Memphis the night before he was assassinated.) We read it [...]
Posted in Children's Rights, Health Care, Human Rights, Judaism, Pesach, Poverty, Prayer, Religion, Religion/Politics, Spirituality on April 1, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday at our Shabbat morning minyan, I noticed a particularly large number of parents and children. Over here was an adult woman helping her elderly mother by pointing along to the transliteration in the siddur. Over there was a man with his four year old in his lap, his tallit falling down across her shoulders. [...]
Posted in Comedy, Judaism, Movies, Pesach, Religion on March 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Just in time for Pesach Spring cleaning, check out “Passover Noir.” (”It’s Passover, kid - it’s the way it’s gotta be…”)
