Tag Archives: Passover
Writing Practice: Leaving Egypt Behind
Every year when we sit down to begin our Seder, I look around the table, amazed at the effort that it took for all of us–family and friends– to come together. We have finished cleaning and shopping and cooking and … Continue reading
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Memorable Seders
By Helga Harris (Sarasota, FL) “Look at David,” Aunt Sophie exclaimed. “It happened again. Remember last year, when he fell asleep at the Seder table and his sweet curly brown hair dipped into the matzo ball soup?” I remember my … Continue reading
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Crumbs
by Janet Ruth Falon (Elkins Park, PA) It was all orchestrated by Mother. Moments before dark on the night before the first seder she scattered breadcrumbs around her linoleum kitchen but not leading anywhere, like Hansel and Gretl’s way home. … Continue reading
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Miracle Flowing Into Miracle
by Bruce Black (Sarasota, FL) The vegetable stock for the soup is simmering on the stove. Onions, turnips, carrots, garlic, sweet potatoes, and leeks. Last night we searched for crumbs, but it’s only now that the house is beginning to … Continue reading
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Devotion to Faith
by Roma Talasowicz-Eibuszyc (New York, NY) Translated from the Polish by Suzanna Eibuszyc (Calabasas, CA) Painful though this will be, I have decided that she is right. I do this not so much to preserve my own story, but rather … Continue reading
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Chumatz
by Janet Ruth Falon (Elkins Park, PA) Chumatz is all the things we can live without: the puff the fluff the excess stuff, the icing on the cake and, in most cases, the cake itself, the overboard the elaborate the … Continue reading
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