Passover
A Modern Passover Miracle
This modern Passover Miracle story is perfect for sharing with friends and family at your Seder. At Passover, every person ...
A Whipping Man Seder
The Whipping Man , by playwright Matthew Lopez, depicts an amazing historical convergence: the Civil War’s end, this nation’s long ...
How Many More Years Of Slaves?
This morning, my friend and co-worker Nonnie asked me if I had seen the Oscars. I told her I had ...
Passover in Pakistan
In 1990, I worked with Afghan refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan, then the site of the largest refugee population in the ...
Privilege & Oppression
We recently finished celebrating Passover, a holiday where “oppression” is an ongoing theme (and freedom, of course, is our cause ...
Unleavened Equality
I will never forget the moment when my daughter came out. She was 5 years old. We were eating dinner ...
It’s Over…or Is It?
Passover has passed us over and last night’s dinner was a veritable chametz -fest. “But wait!” you shout, “Passover isn’t ...
A Contemporary Story Of Redemption
“My father was a wandering Aramean.” With this quote, from Deuteronomy 26:5, we begin not only the Maggid (story-telling) portion ...
Thirteen Seder Virgins
On Tuesday night, I hosted a large Passover seder at my home in Jackson, Mississippi. Out of love for this ...
On Pesach, you are not alone.
Passover has always been my favorite holiday. I love the foods, seeing my family and my friends who are normally ...