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...addition to the striking art, the ancient rhythms of the Haggadah text are punctuated by a thoughtful anthology of contemporary and historical readings. Martin Buber retells a Hasidic story. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel discusses the Sabbath. Erich Fromm talks about idols, Elie Wiesel about Jewishness, and a passage from The Diary of Anne Frank touchingly describes how to be hopeful in adversity...
...restoration of traditional Passover flavor to the new Haggadah reflects a widespread new interest in ritual practices among Reform Jews (TIME, Nov. 26). But the editor of the new Haggadah, Rabbi Herbert Bronstein of Glencoe, Ill., emphasizes that the restorations are not a return to literalism. The phrase "Next year in Jerusalem," for instance, may be a "present physical longing" for many, but it "speaks also in the mode of our mystics, of the homecoming of all existence...
Similarly, the new text includes a much more specific welcome to the prophet Elijah, who is expected to "visit" each Seder. "From beyond," says the new text unabashedly, "Elijah's spirit enters these walls ..." The expansion of the Elijah rite, Rabbi Bronstein explains somewhat prolixly, is a move "to preserve a sense of reverence before the mysterious pluralities of the transcendent." In another symbolic touch, an innovation of their own, the Reform liturgists have added a fifth cup of wine to the four traditional cups drunk by the celebrants-a cup that is left untasted "as a sign...
...Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red, Kemelman...
...Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red, Kemelman...