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About
the month of Nisan
Important facts and figures
 
Passover basics
Names and designations for Passover
Some you knew and others you didn't
Turkish / Israeli / Moroccan melodies for the
Passover table as performed by Voice
of the Turtle
Passover
curiosities
FYI and to enrich your seder discussions
 Passover
in a Union Camp
Reminiscences from the Civil War
Joseph A. Joel
Four cups of wine or five
at the Passover seder?
(When Elijah comes, we will know the answer...)
Shoshana Michael Zucker
"Let
all who are hungry come and eat"
Three Passover tales
A
short history of the printed, illustrated haggadah
"Dear,
kind, loving, darling Elijah, he came straight to me..."
Excerpt from the short story Elijah the Prophet
Shalom Aleikhem
 Moses'
exultant Song at the Sea
A new translation with commentary by the translator
Prof. Everett Fox
How
did all the Israelites know the words?
Rabbinic speculations about the Song at the Sea
Prof.
James Kugel
Retelling the tale of the Exodus
A short history of the printed, illustrated haggadah
Other meanings for eating unleavened bread
Wise words from a first-century philosopher Philo
The Five Sages from Bnei Brak meet the Four Sons
A detail in the 15th-century Darmstadt Haggadah
Rachel Wischnitzer
Illustrated matzah, anyone?
Rabbinic debates on the artistic perforation of matzah
The mystic drama of Passover
The power of Passover rituals as perceived by Jewish mystics
David S. Ariel
The seder of the ignorant man
A tale told of the great Hasidic master
Reb Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev
A Hebrew lesson on the rootword: s-d-r
Dr. Joseph Lowin
Comics
The paschal meal: an exclusive affair
Noam Nadav
 Learn
more about the
Had Gadya ballad
in the special Had Gadya feature.
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