Word: seder
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...your mother’s father’s sister-in-law’s great-uncle’s cousin Saul, who looks just like you. Of course, the “wrong” Rabbi Hazan insisted I stay. I felt like Elijah, welcomed to the Seder during Passover. The guests at the already-full table looked at me in disbelief, but the Rabbi’s wife quickly found an extra chair. We were mishpacha, and when in Rome, we scooted our chairs closer and celebrated the Jewish New Year together. I am from a very Jewish...
...sort of a democratic socialist of the Swedish style—that was an integral part of his personality,” Cox said. Stendahl passed away last week at the age of 86, after several years of declining health. Cox described a Passover seder his wife held that Stendahl attended annually. Cox’s wife also invited a colleague whose husband’s religious beliefs were opposed to Stendahl’s—he was “very convinced that the Greeks had it right with polytheism,” Cox said...
...Twenty Passover Seders were conducted around campus, with Hillel providing the food and comprehensive "Seder kits" to support hundreds of students in celebrating Passover...
...like the one depicted in Salvador Litvak’s ’83 new movie, “When Do We Eat?” Things take a turn for the bizarre in Litvak’s film when the rebellious offspring of a dysfunctional patriarch spike his seder wine with ecstasy and LSD. Outrageous hallucinations, manic behavior, and—unexpectedly—intergenerational reconciliation ensue. In Litvak’s words, “This ain’t your bubbie’s Jewish comedy.” THE HARVARD CRIMSON: What was the inspiration...
...gave him the right to do something other than fundraising—even the right to exercise his First Amendment rights. So in the spring of 2002, lower Manhattan was still a blackened gash left by Islamo-Nazis, and suicide bombers were murdering Israeli grandparents and children at their seder tables. The deduction: Harvard should divest from companies that do business with Israel, honked the herd. (Some European geese—may they get bird flu—went farther, banning Israeli academics, even critics of government policy, from journals and meetings.) When President Summers suggested, much more charitably than...