tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post5812448461047522029..comments2024-03-28T15:01:21.285-04:00Comments on SleuthSayers: A 21st Century PassoverLeigh Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-84603442625382673572012-04-08T16:21:41.554-04:002012-04-08T16:21:41.554-04:00Great post, Liz. One which has me reflecting on t...Great post, Liz. One which has me reflecting on times I joined my best childhood friend and his family for seder, in high school and college—even though I’m not Jewish. These days he’s a judge, down in Tucson, but he stopped by for a visit about a week ago. He got a kick out of it, when I told him how the kids and I had done a “re-enactment of the first Passover” in the Sunday School class I taught that morning.Dixon Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11220791609338404147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-24534004084809726762012-04-07T20:25:41.569-04:002012-04-07T20:25:41.569-04:00Leigh, I get it completely. When Xmas falls on Cha...Leigh, I get it completely. When Xmas falls on Chanukah, I put red and green candles in the menorah. I love having an ecumenical family. Just got back from the Seder, and I learned a new and brilliant trick I'd never heard of before: telling the children they have to close their eyes while the Afikomen is hidden!Elizabeth Zelvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944424094949207841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-43480502818348631062012-04-07T17:49:50.439-04:002012-04-07T17:49:50.439-04:00With a Jewish aunt and uncles, my brothers and I w...With a Jewish aunt and uncles, my brothers and I were taught the traditions. We shared holidays with one another and, as I mentioned on Criminal Brief, or Christmas tree was topped with a Star of David.<br /><br />My mother (who'd learned all the really boring Yiddish, like words for tea an vegetables), brought matzo in for communion and dreidels in for church school during Christmas. It would probably flip today's fundamentalists of all stripes out, but it made sense to us and it worked.<br /><br />I have a sentimental spot for Purim. In school, an extremely shy girl used the holiday to give me a bag of treats (mishloach manot) signalling that she liked me. I'm still touched by that tender approach.Leigh Lundinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-65829479507334996922012-04-07T13:42:08.345-04:002012-04-07T13:42:08.345-04:00I enjoyed the article, Liz. It sounds as if you h...I enjoyed the article, Liz. It sounds as if you have a wonderful family--perhaps the greatest of blessings!David Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13005457506363262838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-63078971178232224432012-04-07T12:21:01.416-04:002012-04-07T12:21:01.416-04:00When it's at my house, we sing a setting of Ps...When it's at my house, we sing a setting of Psalm 114--the one about the mountains skipping like rams, the hills like young lambs--that my father and his siblings learned at the Brooklyn Jewish Center, yikes, 100 years ago. And now we end the Seder with my inclusive version of the ending of the Haggadah (Prayer: Next Year in Jerusalem), available for free download at http://cdbaby.com/lizzelvinElizabeth Zelvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944424094949207841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-53002783300363031072012-04-07T11:29:08.265-04:002012-04-07T11:29:08.265-04:00Hag sameah, Liz. great stories. did you grow u...Hag sameah, Liz. great stories. did you grow up on Maxwell House haggadot? <br /><br />we had our seder last bight and i got to sing my song Nachshon, about the parting of the Red Sea.Robert Loprestihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08844889305615182897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-59549514137101670642012-04-07T10:28:23.563-04:002012-04-07T10:28:23.563-04:00What a beautiful explanation of your family tradit...What a beautiful explanation of your family tradition. Thank you, and mazel tov!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com