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Editorial April 9, 2008  RSS feed
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Let us celebrate freedom for all
      Passover begins on Saturday night Apr. 19 with a seder recalling the exodus from Egypt. We hear of the bitterness of bondage and the Jewish people's emergence as a free people. Once we made bricks for Pharaoh, now we are free people serving only God. Indeed, Passover is known as the Festival of Freedom.
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'Sliding doors' & the miracle of Israel
      REHOVOT, ISRAEL- As I approach my sunset years, I can't help but think of that charming 1998 film "Sliding Doors," in which a woman's life is decisively affected by whether she enters one subway train or another.
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Passover reveals the exile in us all
      Every Passover, an acquaintance I see once a year at seder makes the same joke. "Nu," he says. "Why is it I only see you when we re wandering? Next time, come over and stay awhile.
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The 12 Questions… Or Penina Hoffnung deserves a Pesach column of her own
      Q. Your favorite seder memory? A. My cousin Brian (Friedman, of Cherry Hill, davka) sixteenish, acting real macho about liking spicy horseradish, and then downing a whole jarful at once and turning beet red. What's funny about this now, is that we thought it was so hot back then.
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