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The conflicting emotions of Passover 2024

The conflicting emotions of Passover 2024

Our Jewish history recounted at seder tables this year is less joyous with current suffering and moral questioning.

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Apr 24, 2024
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In the Ten Commandments, Moses tells Pharaoh to “let my people go”

This year I celebrated Passover with a few of my closest friends, all of whom are non-Jewish. Two of them visited me while I was working in Israel and now consider themselves Jew-ish, celebrating the major Jewish holidays with me, along with an occasional Shabbat. Another friend's young d…

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