Word: seder
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...visited seminaries in Cincinnati and New York, donned prayer shawl and yarmulke for lengthy Orthodox Sabbath and Yom Kippur services and spoke to many Jewish laymen and scholars. After their story went to press, Mohs, Ostling and Rosen and their spouses got together for a belated but traditional Passover Seder...
...attended by representatives of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and of the N.A.A.C.P., labor organizers and Protestant ministers. In Miami Beach, the ads for a kosher hotel promise not only an olympic-size saltwater swimming pool, but also "Passover Specials" in room rates and a cantor and choir for Seder services. In Connecticut, a self-proclaimed congregation of Jewish humanists fashions a Passover Haggadah (the Seder narrative) that manages to avoid any mention of God. In Manhattan, an ecumenical group of friends sits down to a classic Seder meal including the symbolic foods: matzoth, bitter herbs and haunch of spring...
...Seder that Jesus first offered the bread and wine as his body and blood, and in Christian liturgies he has become the archetypal Paschal Lamb...
...Seder meal on the eve of Pass over is "the most universally ob served and therefore the most unifying of all Jewish ceremonies," says British Author Chaim Raphael. When Jews throughout the world sit down to the meal this week, they will recount and reflect again on the 3,000-year-old story of how the Angel of Death "passed over" the Israelites when slaying Egypt's firstborn, as told in the Seder narrative, the Haggadah...
They could have no better guide than Raphael's lively, scholarly new history of Passover, A Feast of History (Simon & Schuster; $12.50). Drawing on a rich selection of illustrations, Raphael traces celebrations of the Seder back through the centuries, all the way to Abraham (rabbinic lore anachronistically had it that he celebrated a Seder with the three angels who visited him centuries before the Exodus...