The Jewish Week, March 22nd, 2002
The Jewish Week 03-22-2002 Not long ago, in better times, Passover became in many ways a feel-good universalist holiday, the stuff of ecumenical model seders and a search for larger themes beyond the story at hand. This year, the Haggadah is stark; the pain is singular. Somehow a verse from Lamentations snuck in, Israel "has none to comfort her."
Too many of our children have been "thrown in the river" by modern pharaohs who don't allow even baby girls to escape the terror. You can almost hear the echoes of Exodus, when those who wished us ill said, "Come, let us deal wisely with them," tur...
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