Jews in L.A. land:Los Angeles’ Jewish community has offered much to the city, including an array of complicated individuals, Rosemary Jenkins writes. (City Watch L.A.)
From bat mitzvah to intermarriage: Emma Sarran, 28, is planning her bat mitzvah and her interfaith wedding at the same time. (The Frisky)
Passover’s popularity: From Orthodox to unaffiliated, over 90 percent of North American Jews sit down to a Passover seder, Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson writes. (Huffington Post)
Resurrecting Hazaz:Haim Hazaz was once one of Israel’s most prominent writers. Since, his reputation has waned, but his work is no less incisive and enduring, Darren Pinsker writes. (Moment)
A little Passover music: Through singing Yiddish songs about freedom, a young African-American convert reclaimed part of his own heritage — Negro spirituals. (Tablet)
