Word: haggadah
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...Jewish exodus from slavery in Egypt. They recall their ancestors' tears with salt water and bitter herbs and eat a sweet concoction of nuts, apple and wine to commemorate the mortar with which slaves once cemented bricks. The anguish of captivity is recounted in the text of the Haggadah, and the joy of freedom celebrated with song...
PASSOVER IS A TIME of tradition. The recent controversy over revisions in the Passover service's Haggadah to include references to the Holocaust, the civil rights movement and other modem trials alongside of the traditional story of the flight out of Egypt has shown that tradition dies hard. But even if you are revisionist, there is one tradition this Passover Season you should not miss-a trip to see the musical Fiddler on the Roof currently playing at Kirkland...
Named the Murphy Haggadah after its alumnus donor, the book--which is worth about $150,000--was identified as the Rothschilds' through the tiny number "92" penciled on the inside back cover. That number corresponded to an inventory number in a catalog of the baron's possessions...
...Your article on the new Jewish Reform Haggadah for Passover [April 8] once again demonstrates that those who stray from traditional Orthodox Judaism eventually realize the necessity of returning to a tradition that has no need for "reform" because it is a modern, fulfilling way of life, which already contains within it all the processes for any necessary change...
...Passover Haggadah is a handsome book, either in the personal-size paperback ($3, from the Central Conference of American Rabbis) or the coffee-table hardback (Grossman; $17.50). A "family package" -ten paperbacks and the hardback for $37.50-has been selling briskly. The book's only drawback for some potential users may be its refusal to coddle its audience. While everything in Hebrew also appears in English, none of the Hebrew is transliterated for those who might like to speak the Hebrew words but cannot read the characters. Moreover, the profusion of optional readings and songs may confuse those...