accustomea toms of me year seder is *becoming more and
By IVIEIR C.H.A.KINIAli
(Copyright, 1960, Jewish Telegraphic which have, or conceivably r ore popular than it ever was
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could have, traces of leaven i n modern American commun-
Herman 'Wouk's best-seller are on sale in unleavened i ty life. Once, when the "lost" ,
on the Jewish religion, This preparations."
€ veneration, ' the Jews of the
Is My God," tells us that Pass-
This observation comes after 1 9305 who 'broke away from
over has become a holiday easy a discussion of matzo, the t heir Judaic past, thought in
to 'Observe. The ' food restric- “bread of affliction." Which t erms of a Seder, it was a
tons have .just about vanished leads us to a second thought: c ornmunal affair —• one which
because, as Wouk reminds us, the commercialization of Pass- t he local rabbi could handle
"a major industry of Passover over foods, while no doubt a 1 or them. They, themselves,
products exists. Ndarly. all the good business (and lauded by ( l idn't know how to "run" one
Mr. Wouk who likes to show us c f "those things." It was easy,
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ish customs consistently), some- hul, with a catered Seder, and
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how denigrates the holiday. 1 vith the rabbi explaining each
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"Passover is so important to
us because the Hebrew school
and Sunday schools spend so
much of their time teaching
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o ur children how to observe the
r itual of this festival. All the
lessings and traditional chants
are taught. •The many. symbols,
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'The Messiah at the Seder."
Here is a passage, by Wilson
on the Haggadah which is as
brilliant and flattering as any-
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flexibility—for it ranges from
rhymes for the children to
exalted psalms in praise of God
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1 spell that involved the long-
dinner table, white - napiered,
gleaming with wine glasses and
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even past, since it still lived
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among them there, and that
was not what had happened but
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Passover carries with it the
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