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I was scaling the shelves of a local supermarket, trying to beat out another shopper who was heading for a box of farfel, when I had an epiphany . . .
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4/4/14
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When Holocaust survivor Lee Lichtman surveyed the room of people sitting at tables enjoying the JCC of the Greater Five Towns’ model Seder at the Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach, she was reminded of good and bad recollections of Passovers past.
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By Jeff Bessen
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4/2/14
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Passover is an eight-day holiday. The first two days are considered full festivals and no servile work is performed on those days. These days are for prayer, family and of course the Passover Seder. The last two days are also festival days. Except for the fact that there is no Seder on those days, they are very much like the first two days in our observance.
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By Rabbi Steven M. Graber
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3/27/13
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Several Woodmere Fire Department firefighters manned the trash cans and a 40-foot dumpster where Jewish people from the Five Towns dumped their bread and other items that are not kosher for Passover at the department’s 11th annual chometz burning on Monday.
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3/27/13
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In order to appreciate the festival of Passover that is designated as the holiday of freedom, one must look at the struggle for freedom that is being waged in Middle East and African countries. The yearning to tear off the yoke of oppression that enslaves many is a universal one.
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By Rabbi Sholom Stern
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3/20/13
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There’s a story that a group of survivors from one of the camps got together for their first Seder after the Holocaust. Everything went well; there was plenty of food, wine, and matzah available to them.
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By Rabbi Nochem Teneboim
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3/20/13
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Consider the Yiddish word latke. It is what it sounds like, an onomatopoeic name for a flat, fried potato pancake consumed by Jewish people during Hanukkah.
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12/13/12
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It seems divinely appropriate when Christian and Jewish holidays coincide, but it doesn’t happen that often.
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4/5/12
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In a world so often encumbered by petty conceits and the small-minded, to be truly “grand” is to be truly unique.
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RON GOLDMAN
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4/21/11
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Thus it came to be in the land of Brooklyn that Morris Brownstein knew Anna Brownstein, his second cousin, and they begot Hilda, Murray, Pearl and Zelda. Pearl, third in the family order, is my mother and the only one who seems to have entirely escaped the questionable legacy of having parents who are also blood relatives.
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Randi Kreiss
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4/14/11
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