Go broken into this seder night * A discourse as flat as matzah * What freedom means in 2022 * Pharaoh and Putin * The blessing for eating chametz on Pesach

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, April 14, 2022 [Do not go unbroken into this seder night]( By [Rachel Sharansky Danziger]( [The world we carry with us into Pesach is one where a little Ukrainian girl crossed the border to safety with a guinea pig in her arms and nothing else]( [Shuly Rubin Schwartz]( [A discourse that is as flat as matzah]( [MK Stilman’s exit from the coalition and Tzedek Chicago’s shift to anti-Zionism both run counter to the Seder’s modeling of a nuanced approach to real-life challengesÂ]( [Leading the people back to Egypt]( By [Joshua Berman]( [Guiding Bible-themed tours to the land of the Pharaohs, I’ve gained an unexpected appreciation for Egyptians – modern and ancient]( [Noam Weissman]( [What freedom means in 2022]( [Sir Isaiah Berlin developed the idea that there are two types of freedom: “Freedom from” and “freedom to.” “Freedom from” is the absence of constraints and restraints. It is freedom from authority or responsibility. “Freedom to” is the idea that an individual has the capacity to make autonomous decisions toward a goal or an idea. Using Berlin’s dichotomy of “freedom from” and “freedom to,” how can we identify what freedom means in 2022? What are we collectively seeking freedom from this year and what do we seek freedom to do or...]( [A Passover prayer]( By [Yael Leibowitz]( [May we gather, bicker, make crumbs, and laugh together with those we love. And may we ask all the hard questions that we cannot answer, for that too is our inheritance]( [Avi Baumol]( [Pharaoh, Putin and why this Pesach is different from all others]( [Again, a despot brainwashes a nation into committing atrocities against an innocent people — but in Poland, we discover history does not have to repeat itself]( [The blessing for eating chametz on Pesach]( By [Kenneth Brander]( [A prayer from Bergen-Belsen: ’…our hearts are pained at the captivity which prevents us, and we find ourselves in danger of our lives…’]( [David Brofsky]( [Where the American Orthodox rabbis go wrong on conversion reform]( [The Americans’ misconceptions about the norms of current Israeli conversion blind them to the value of the reforms that many of their Israeli counterparts see]( [Efraim Zuroff]( [Today’s antisemitism, brought to you by the letters Z and V]( [When vandalism at Lithuania’s Ponar Holocaust memorial copies Russian tanks, it accuses the Jewish community of supporting Putin’s invasion]( [Memories lost]( By [Anne Gordon]( [This holiday of heritage is planted in our identity by our experiences and the stories we’ve been told. What of us is left when all that is gone?]( Top Ops [Sari Laufer]( [A sunflower for Ukraine? A tomato for farmworkers? I’m sticking to the seder plate basics]( [If we try to account for every tale of oppression, we risk leaving some out – or miss the universal truths of the Exodus]( [Francis Nataf]( [Ukraine, Passover and how to spread freedom]( [At what point does the control we have over others undermine their dignity as beings created in the image of God?]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved