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The guy who brought you last year’s “Emoji Haggadah” is tongue-in-cheeking it again this year with a novel (coronavirus) text. Martin Bodek, a 44-year-old language aficionado and IT specialist who lives in Passaic, N.J., released his “Coronavirus Haggadah” on social media last week as a seder supplement, satiric commentary and morale booster during these days […]
For Rabbi Paysach Krohn, all roads to understanding the profound themes of the Passover story don’t necessarily run through ancient Egypt. Some run through Staten Island. In his new Haggadah, “At the Maggid’s Seder: Stories and Insights of Grandeur and Redemption” (ArtScroll), the prolific author (and popular mohel) upends the traditional, commentary-laden seder text with […]
“None of you shall go outside the door of his house until morning” were the words Moshe said to the Israelites the night before they left Egypt. Outside their doors, a plague was coming, a plague which would cause a “great cry in Egypt”, the tenth and most awful plague, the one which would finally […]