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Why Is This Passover Different From Past Passovers?
Why is this Passover different from any other? Because the story that the Jewish holiday commemorates — the exodus of the ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt to freedom — resonates more strongly than ever in a world embroiled in a refugee crisis that encompasses approximately 60 million people, the highest number ever recorded, according …
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Mandy Patinkin’s Passover Message from Cambodia
As someone who has spent the past four years reporting in Southeast Asia, I want to make a suggestion: this Passover, put down the Haggadah for a few minutes and read aloud from an essay by actor Mandy Patinkin about his trip to Cambodia. On the Showtime series “Homeland,” Patinkin plays Saul Berenson, a senior …
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Let All Who Are Hungry for Change, Come and Act
Several months ago, I felt the power of the thousands-year-old Passover story as palpably as I ever have, when I travelled with American Jewish World Service (AJWS) to Cambodia. My sense of what it means for a people to go from slavery to freedom deepened when I spent time listening to the modern-day narratives of …
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Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Being a Jewish advocate for human rights is especially poignant for me on April 19th, the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This was the largest act of Jewish resistance in the face of German-occupied Poland during World War II. The uprising began 73 years ago today when Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto decided to …
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AJWS Bay Area: What’s Happening
Thank you to all who attended AJWS’s 30th anniversary gala. It was a powerful night as we honored Sir Michael Moritz and our own indomitable Ruth Messinger. Just as powerful was the haunting tribute expressed by our third honoree, Alejandra Ancheita.
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Award-Winning Performer Mandy Patinkin Creates Passover Essay for American Jewish World Service
Patinkin Encourages Jews to Ponder Freedom for People Around the World with a Focus on Cambodia The essay by Mr. Patinkin is part of a special series of Jewish holiday readings curated by American Jewish World Service that includes previous commentaries from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky New York, NY …
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AJWS Los Angeles: What’s Happening
I am delighted to share my first newsletter of 2016 and to take note of the many accomplishments of AJWS in the past year—which I know make you as proud as they make me!
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Passover Resources
The story of Passover illuminates the core narrative of the Jewish people: we were once slaves in Egypt, but now we are free. This story still resonates today with the struggles and journeys to freedom still traveled by so many communities around the globe. This year, when we relive the story of our own liberation, …
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Justice Ginsburg Turns Her Pen To Exodus’ ‘Women Of Action’
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, famous for her legal pen, has now written a short essay for a different occasion: Passover.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Passover
On Passover, Jews are commanded to tell the story of the Exodus and to see ourselves as having lived through that story, so that we may better learn how to live our lives today. The stories we tell our children shape what they believe to be possible—which is why at Passover, we must tell the …
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