Passover

The traditional Seder plate contains an egg, shank bone,  karpas, charoset and maror. Some also make room for the hazeret, another kind of bitter green.  But recently other fruits and vegetables have showed up on the plate, representing a variety of causes from solidarity with oppressed Jewish communities to welcoming the intermarried. First was the […]

JewishBoston.com has posted what it describes as a 30-minute Passover Haggadah, of the mix-and-match variety. Blogger David Wilensky, writing on The Reform Shuckle, gives it a thumbs-up: For a 30-minute seder, it looks pretty great. It takes as a given the 14-part order to the seder and then prunes the whole thing back to the […]