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A Passover seder despite a toxic war

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Edward Pearlman
Apr 26, 2024
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We hesitated to have a Passover seder at all this year. The Gaza war is toxic and unavoidable. The seder is a time to reflect on Jewish identity and I wasn't sure I could handle infusing that with the current volatile political agendas within my family and our guests.

But I found myself settling on three points to provide a framework for the seder story,…

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