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The haggadah suggests adding a date to the Seder table, as "Israel does grow a lot of dates," said Gottesman. Date trees "stand for perseverance, abundance and growth.
Some Jews Pass Over the Haggadah’s Curse The call to God to ‘pour out Thy wrath’ purges our anger and allows us to rejoice. By Ruth R. Wisse March 30, 2023 6:16 pm ET ...
Thus, to the extent that we read the Haggadah at all, the goal should be to stimulate, not substitute for, conversation.
The haggadah also has beautiful illustrations on every page by 70 Faces Media’s multimedia editor, Hane Grace Yagel, making the centuries-old text engaging and fresh.
The Haggadah, too, is meandering, fragmented and keyed in varied tonalities: it asks its readers to fill in its many gaps, to make sense of its contradictions. Its main purpose is to raise more ...
For Passover this year, Rizzoli has just released “The Bronfman Haggadah,” written by the businessman, philanthropist and Jewish community leader Edgar Bronfman Sr., illustrated by artist Jan ...
For example, the haggadah includes passages from the 1925 book “Passover Nights,” by Hava Shapiro, a Kyiv-born Jew and journalist who authored one of the first Hebrew-language diaries known to ...
Faith and Freedom: Passover Haggadah with Commentary from the Writings of Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits edited by Dr. Reuven Mohl Urim Publications, 159 pages, $24.95 ...
Probably the highest-profile new Haggadah of 2011 is the interfaith-oriented entry from Cokie and Steve Roberts (yes, obviously, that Cokie Roberts, of NPR and ABC fame), “Our Haggadah: Uniting ...
The Sarajevo Haggadah is considered one of the most valuable items of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is only displayed on special occasions, usually during Passovers.