Every year we ask the same question Passover: “Why is this night different from all other nights?” This year our seder was different because instead of the Passover story happening long ago, elements of it are happening today. I have lived a fortunate middle-class life; I have never experienced slavery or a plague, and the…
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Music
Rapper Kosha Dillz organizes virtual Passover music fest
Kosha Dillz is supposed to be on a multicity U.S. tour right now. Instead, the 38-year-old rapper is stuck in Los Angeles, where he is trying to find…
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Saturday Night Seder yields $2.6M for charity, 4 insights about being Jewish
With its glittering assembly of stars, jokes that worked and attendees who could, well, sing, it was the Zoom Seder you wished you had. The Saturday Night…
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How Bay Area Jews coped with seder-in-place
The Seder was different for everybody this year. Gatherings were smaller, some were live-streamed, others had empty seats where family members should be…
First Person
Our seder celebrated the courageous women of the Passover story
The second annual women’s seder on April 5, which I helped organize, was nothing like the first. While the seder’s theme was the same — a focus on…
Torah
How to tell a Jewish story: ‘Yes, we can!’ not ‘No, we can’t’
The Torah column is supported by a generous donation from Eve Gordon-Ramek. Pesach Chol HaMoed Exodus 13:1-16 Numbers 28:19–25 Every child in the world…
Bay Area
Passover lockdown in Israel cuts ‘lone soldiers’ from Bay Area off from family
Maia Elder-Kadar and her husband, Ofer, won’t be seeing their daughter, Yael, over Passover this year. “She said she misses us,” Elder-Kadar said. “She…
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Why that night in Moscow in 1979 was different from all other nights
It was early April 1979, the week before Passover, although we didn’t realize it at the time. We grew up completely secular in the Soviet Union. Nobody in…
Local Voice
Passover, Covid-19 and the dangers of inhumane healthcare
The Hebrew word “Pesach” connotes “hovering in a protective way,” much as a mother bird might hover over her nest, protecting her offspring. The common…