Holidays
(A traditional Seder courtesy Wikimedia Commons)Brooklyn’s matzoh bakeries are working overtime in preparation for Passover, producing only the finest shmura matzoh [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/dining/passover-matzo.html?_r=0], which celebrates the liberation of the Jewish people from bondage under the Egyptian pharaoh. What
Central Brooklyn
(A traditional Seder courtesy Wikimedia Commons)Brooklyn’s matzoh bakeries are working overtime in preparation for Passover, producing only the finest shmura matzoh [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/dining/passover-matzo.html?_r=0], which celebrates the liberation of the Jewish people from bondage under the Egyptian pharaoh. What
community seders
Photo by Erica ShermanPassover. The Festival of the Unleavened Bread. The celebration of the ancient Israelites’ escape from Egypt’s whips and chains. And the wandering… When I think of Passover, I’m immediately drawn to that image of thousands of people wandering the desert, at first chaotically, without laws,