Word: seder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scrutinize our religious showpieces. Is a tree the best way to share Christmas with other students? Speaking as a Jew, I can tell you that the unimpressive candelabra that rests on a white tablecloth in Leverett House would not be my pick. Neither are "Mysterious Maccabees." But a Seder, the traditional Passover meal during which Jews retell the story of the exodus from Egypt, might be. A model Seder might be a wonderful house program that would allows Jews to share their heritage with any who might want to learn about...
...like to take this opportunity to introduce to non-Jews a crucial part of the Passover seder. Midway through the reading of the Haggadah, before the Passover meals is served, the participants raise their glasses and recite a passage that begins, "In every generation someone rises to destroy...
When sitting around the seder table, I wonder if the suffering will ever stop. As a child in elementary school, I endured my share of Jeers and jibes--most, no doubt, ingrained by my peers' parents. Zionism, the movement for a Jewish state, sought to avoid these goals by setting up a friendly and uniform society of Jews...
...particular yardstick of this phenomenon is remembrance and commemoration of the Holocaust. Why dwell on suffering, including in the seder? The answer is simple--it reminds us of what can happen, and alerts us to the plight of others in similar situations. But we many never know completely how Jews would act in the absence of suffering--society has never allowed us to try this experiment...
...when Chabon drops the midnight disease and simply shows us Grady as a lonely and loveable guy, he produces some wonderful scenes, both hilarious and genuinely touching. In the novel's finest section, Grady visits his in-laws' Passover Seder in a fruitless attempt to win back his wife, Emily. Emily is one of three Korean orphans adopted by a suburban Jewish couple, Irv and Marie, and this improbable family becomes for Grady the warm, loving home he desperately needs...