Tag: Passover

The Takeaway

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander on their 'New American Haggadah'

Thursday, April 05, 2012

The Haggadah, the Jewish religious text read at Passover, is 3,000 years old. It has been translated more than any Jewish book, from ancient times, to 14th-century Sarajevo, to the just-published "New American Haggadah." Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander have constructed a new Haggadah, religious, yet modern, for the American Jews of their generation.

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The Takeaway

The Virtual Seder Table

Monday, March 29, 2010

The participants in DOROT's annual Passover Seders ask the four questions, sing traditional songs, list off the ten plagues, and pray. They do everything that one would expect to do at a Seder, only they do it while each participant is still in his or her own home.

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