Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

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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