My Word: Beyond the 'Four Questions' of Passover | The Jerusalem Post
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“The Passover Seder, which we celebrated at the start of the festival last week, is symbolized by the 'Four Questions.'”
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— The Passover Seder is a ritual feast at the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover. It is conducted throughout the world at the start of the 15th day of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar (at sunset, w…
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— The Passover Seder plate (Hebrew: קערה, ke'ara) is a special plate containing symbolic foods eaten or displayed at the Passover Seder. It is used to show all the symbolic foods that are used for the P…
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— The White House Passover Seder was an annual private dinner held at the White House on the Jewish holiday of Passover during the presidency of Barack Obama. Obama initiated it in 2009 for his family, …
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“This year, Pessah in Israel was clearly different from all other years.”
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— On 28 March 2026, the Houthis in Yemen resumed their attacks against Israel, which were paused following the 2025 Gaza war ceasefire, and joined the 2026 Iran war by launching ballistic missiles again…
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— Iran and Israel have not maintained a formal diplomatic relationship with each other since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Beginning in the mid-1980s, the Iran–Israel proxy conflict has grown to large…
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— The Passover Seder is a ritual feast at the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover. It is conducted throughout the world at the start of the 15th day of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar (at sunset, w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_Seder
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“The ongoing war with Iran and the rockets from its terrorist proxies, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen, overshadowed the holiday – but didn’t cancel it.”
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— The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
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— The following is a list of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel in 2023.
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— The October 7 attacks were a series of coordinated armed incursions from the blockaded Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, carried out by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant…
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“The question of where to go to celebrate hinged this year around how safe it was to get to the Seder and how safe the place it would be held was.”
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“When friends met up later and asked each other, 'How was your Seder?' the answer didn’t relate only to the food, atmosphere, and family dynamics but also contained a subtext: Was it disturbed by rocket attacks, and did you have to run for shelter in the middle of the meal?”
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“The IDF said that some 165 Hezbollah rockets launched at Israel are estimated to have fallen short and hit UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) positions or nearby.”
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“Israeli hospitals have converted their underground parking lots into makeshift wards, including maternity units for babies born in wartime.”
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“Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) in Israel is scheduled between Passover and Israel's Independence Day on the Hebrew calendar.”
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“Elie Wiesel stated: 'The Shoah wasn’t a crime against humanity, but a crime against the Jews.'”
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“Haim Gouri said: 'Israel was created not because of the Shoah but in spite of it.'”
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“Mahmoud Abbas’s doctoral thesis is an exercise in Holocaust denial.”
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“The Islamic Republic of Iran has annually hosted an international cartoon contest mocking the Holocaust.”
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“Antisemitic attacks have occurred in Australia and Canada, including firebombs targeting Jewish communities.”
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