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Ruth Wisse on Passover: “Echoes of Exodus in the rise of modern Israel from the Holocaust’s ashes”

WALL STREET JOURNAL To Appreciate Freedom, Remember Slavery by Ruth R. Wisse March 29, 2018 …The Passover story should never be left half told. Understandably, American Jews felt compelled to commemorate the unprecedented brutality of the Holocaust and its victims. … Continue reading

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“The Haggadah recounts the Egyptians’ pattern of Jew-hatred: They envied the prosperity of their Jewish minority, enslaved and ultimately engaged in genocide with Pharaoh’s decree to drown all newborn Jewish males”

JERUSALEM POST Passover: We have reason to rejoice by Isi Leibler April 9, 2017 Tonight, most Israelis, secular as well as observant, will celebrate Passover, the festival of freedom in which we recount our life of slavery and exodus from … Continue reading

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Ba-a-a-ad boys: Three goats, awaiting sacrifice, confiscated by police Friday unharmed, have been handed over to the municipality’s animal control department

TIMES OF ISRAEL 7 held for attempting Passover goat sacrifice in J’lem by Judah Ari Gross April 22, 2016 Police detained seven Jewish men suspected of planning to sacrifice goats in the Old City of Jerusalem on Friday in honor … Continue reading

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Charlton Heston channels Adele and more Passover fun [VIDEOS]

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Passover, an American holiday

ISRAEL HAYOM The Israel–Passover-USA linkage by Yoram Ettinger April 20, 2016 While Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” – partially based on the teachings of Moses, Judge Gideon and Prophet Samuel – cemented the 1776 American Revolution against the British crown, the … Continue reading

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Chag Sameach from Technion

Passover Pesach 2015 Seder Rube Goldberg Machine from Technion in Israel Technion students get ready for Passover, the festival of freedom, and let their imagination run wild. Watch closely as this Rube Goldberg Machine created by students from the Faculties … Continue reading

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