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EST 1917

Passover

The Passover song about all the awe-inspiring and dreadful things that happen after a man sells a goat for “two zuzim” is generally sung by very sleepy children, in a sonorous tune that reminds everyone that they really are ready for bed. But the upbeat, shockingly gorgeous version sung by a table full of black-hatted Haredi men in […]

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Stand-up comedian Carol Leifer, one of the great writers behind Seinfeld and SNL, has come out from behind the camera with a PETA video for Jewish vegans. The group that notoriously offended Jews for that 2003 concentration camp campaign seems to be using soft diplomacy this Passover, offering special vegan menus for everything from the […]

Imagine your most irreverent friend – the one who maybe eats a BLT on matzoh during Pesach, because “at least it’s not bread.” Yeah, what if you let him lead the seder this year? For This We Left Egypt?, a new haggadah by humorists Dave Barry, Alan Zweibel, and Adam Mansbach, is kind of like […]

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