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• How to Prepare for the Passover Redemption
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2019/04/prepare-for-passover-redemption/

  …narrative begins, and ends, in exile, where assimilation is an unavoidable threat.   The Passover narrative is radically different. It opens with the Egyptian enslavement and was supposed to conclude…

• Of Arameans and First Fruits: A Pre-Pesach Reflection
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2019/04/arameans-passover/

  In his Times of Israel Blog article, Douglas Aronin discusses the centrality of Deuteronomy 26:5-8 to the Haggadah. If you were asked to design a text to fulfill the obligation…

• Omer Observances: Appropriate Abstinence or Excessive Restraint?
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/04/omer-observances/

  …day after the Shabbat.” The word “Shabbat” here is understood by the sages to refer to the first day of Passover (a holiday can also be called a “Shabbat.” From…

• “Pour out Your wrath”: A Pre-Pesach Reflection
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/03/pour-out-your-wrath-a-pre-pesach-reflection/

  In his Times of Israel blog, Doug Aronin discusses the history, meaning, and relevance of the controversial “Pour out Thy Wrath” (שפוך חמתך) paragraph of the Haggadah. This passage strikes…

• Seder Thoughts 2018
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/03/seder-thoughts-2018/

  …to explain the meaning of the Passover offering, the Matsa, and Maror. And the explanations must be in a language the assembled understand. Today we do not eat the Passover…

• Four Questions Every Feminist Should Ask Herself At The Passover Seder
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/03/four-questions-every-feminist-should-ask-herself-at-the-passover-seder/

  Viewpoints Contributor Dr. Sharon Weiss-Greenberg raises questions and issues for discussion at the Passover Seder. Yet, for the most part, the texts we read in the traditional Haggadah are dominated…

• Choosing to be Chosen
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/choosing-to-be-chosen/

  Jews have often been criticized for referring to themselves as “the Chosen People.” After all, the referring to oneself as “chosen” does sound pompous and elitist. The idea of choice…

• Is the Seder Sick?:  A Jewish Prescription for Passover
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/02/is-the-seder-sick-a-jewish-prescription-for-passover/

  At the spunky caldron of Progressive Jewish thought, the Forward, we are told that the contemporary Passover Seder, like the Judaism that spawned it, is broken. The ”traditional,” old time…

• Of God and Man
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/of-god-and-man/

  …when it comes to Pesach. It belongs neither to Man alone, nor to God. The Passover Haggadah asks – Pesach zeh mishum ma? Mishum shepasach haKBH “Why is this sacrifice/holiday…

• Hol Hamoed Pesach
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parashat-hol-hamoed/

  The haggadah of Passover places great emphasis on the Four Children: the wise, the wayward, the simple and the mute. The order of the Four Children, with the rasha (the…

• They Sold Us a Bill of Goods: A Series on the State of Kashruth Today
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/02/they-sold-us-a-bill-of-goods-a-series-on-the-state-of-kashruth-today/

  …of years, we ran the Passover Hot Line (the very first 1-800 number for Pesach questions) for the Union for Traditional Judaism. We created the Kosher Nexus Newsletter, and own…

• Is Pesach ‘Passover’ or Something Else?
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/is-pesach-passover-or-something-else/

  There is probably no more fundamental ritual and season in Judaism than Passover. It is hard to imagine a more impressive tale of Freedom. Most rabbis know that “Pesach” is…