Culture
On this first day of Passover, the holiday that commemorates the Jewish peoples’ exodus from slavery in Egypt to establish a new nation that its enemies today deny ever existed, Jews are threatened as never before — here. For centuries, Jews came here to escape lands where they were persecuted. In
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Look — up in the sky (depending on where you live) — that’s not Superman, it is the Sahara sand storm, the biggest one in half a century that has crossed the Atlantic and is hanging over the Southeastern U.S., and heading inland. A suffocating sand storm. Just a month
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Passover begins Wednesday evening and I can’t imagine why this didn’t occur to me earlier. There are a couple of startling points of contact between the Jewish holiday and the current pandemic. Passover, also known as Pesach, reaches back to the time of Moses, when the Israelites were