JERUSALEM —Every year, Alon Gat’s mother led the family’sPassover celebrationof the liberation of the ancient Israelites from Egypt thousands of years ago. But this year, Gat is struggling with how to reconcile a holiday commemorating freedom after his mother ...
How to Make the Best Passover Seder Plate Meanwhile, charoset— the fruit and nut relish that symbolizes the mortar used by the Israelites when they were enslaved in ancient Egypt — is inherently pantry-friendly. The traditional Ashkenazi (Eastern European) recipe uses nothing more than apples...
In New Testament times, the Christian church celebrated Easter when the Jews observed Passover. By the middle of the second century, Easter was celebrated on the Sunday after Passover. The Council of Nicaea decided in 325 A.D. that all churches should celebrate it together on a Sunday. The...
whose name they would never pronounce correctly, I often felt different. I often felt the way the Jewish kids must have felt during our public school’s Christmas pageant. Or how Hindus, Muslims or Atheists would feel in a town where everyone celebrated Christian holidays ...
We all want to be accepted and celebrated, not just tolerated…but we need to remember that He raises most of us not to be fruitful at first but to be crushed, and then to become fruitful. Who are you spending your time with? Do they encourage you and want the best for you, do ...
Welcome to WordBowl! How it works: Folks like you send word suggestions (look below for link, or submit to wordbowl@gmail.com). I draw one at random and have my essayish-or-fictional way with it (handwriting in bars & coffee shops all over NYC). Let the
whose name they would never pronounce correctly, I often felt different. I often felt the way the Jewish kids must have felt during our public school’s Christmas pageant. Or how Hindus, Muslims or Atheists would feel in a town where everyone celebrated Christian holidays publicly without regar...
[5] As we do not know exactly how the shofar was blown in the ancient Temple, four different blasts are given to ensure that the shofar is heard properly for each new year: Tekiah: One blast, a few seconds long, that ends abruptly. Shevarim: Three one-to-two-second short blasts ...