April’s J-BOM Book: Visions of the Fathers by Rabbi Abraham Twerski The JPS Commentary on the Haggadah Joseph Tabory The Jewish Publication Society, 2008 Ordering Info This, the second half of my review of The JPS Commentary on the Haggadah, unfortunately, I have run out of time to highlight all of the interesting information which …
Long after Passover my youngest two children will still be singing the Seder Semanim, the song that lists the 15 different steps of the Passover seder (Kaddesh, Urchatz, etc.). For some reason they just love to sing that song! So… To capture their zeal and sweet voices, I recorded them singing their current favorite tune. …
If you haven’t heard already, FFOZ is hosting a FREE, two and a half hour webinar presentation on the Holocaust this week entitled “An Overview of the Holocaust From a Critical Perspective.” The first session will be tonight from 8:00-10:00pm (CST) and the second will be Sunday from 6:30-9:00pm (CST). From the FFOZ blog, they …
Although Passover is over this year, I just ran across another interesting haggadah. It is the Slager Edition Haggadah from Kol Menachem. Kol Menachem is a publishing company dedicated “to organize the thousands of hours of public sermons and teachings of the [Lubavitcher] Rebbe and make them universally accessible.” They are the publisher responsible for …
Invariably our family misses some days Counting the Omer each year. This year we decided to challenge both our family and our community in not missing a single day of Counting the Omer. To aid us in keeping track of this for our family, I have created a wall chart and stickers to cut out …
