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A SPECIAL PASSOVER LEARNING EVENT FOR ADULTS

with Seth Korelitz

Ph.D. candidate in Jewish History, Brandeis University
Director, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Michigan Region

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How has the American Jewish experience changed the way we observe Passover?
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efforts to contribute to the script,
everal weeks ago my hus-
which always went something along
band, Phillip, spent untold
the lines of:
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wasn't the dry version I heard in
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— oh, joy — playing "store
and turns and glorious embellish-
when I began to see an image of
: ments. It came complete with contem-
myself: mouth agape, hands to my
porary lingo that never
ears as I screamed to the
failed to delight Yitz and
ends of the earth and back,
Adina.
eyes bulging, my head
Whenever passersby saw
spinning and spinning
the wicked Haman, Phillip
against a dizzying black
would say, they could do
and-white background. It
none else but bow before
was like one of those ubiq-
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him and tell him how won-
uitous images in a B-film.
: derful he was. Haman, in
A B-film?
return, would say, "You
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That gave me an idea.
know it, baby."
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and was so rich with detail that Phil
"store," I suggested that we make
couldn't complete it until the next
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our own B-film. Adina would be
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night. Thereafter, he was forced to
with anxiety and attention deficit disorders
writer,
star and director; Yitz would
} repeat it day after day after day.
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were turning in cheesy performances,
rytelling to Phil (except Shabbat
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