Passover and Palestine: Our Joy Must Not Be Their Suffering Mideast Peace Seattle Passover and Palestine: Our Joy Must Not Be Their Suffering Richard Silverstein April 16, 2022 Jewish history is one of enslavement, exile, and catastrophe. It is also one of rebellion, resistance, redemption,... Read More Read more about Passover and Palestine: Our Joy Must Not Be Their Suffering
Passover: Holiday of Freedom and Suffering Jews & Judaism Mideast Peace Passover: Holiday of Freedom and Suffering Richard Silverstein April 8, 2020 Everyone who’s ever enjoyed a Passover seder knows how wonderful they can be: rousing singing, the story... Read More Read more about Passover: Holiday of Freedom and Suffering
Trump Announces White House Seder, He Probably Won’t Attend Humor Jews & Judaism Mideast Peace Politics & Society Trump Announces White House Seder, He Probably Won’t Attend Richard Silverstein April 10, 2017 Donald Trump’s ever-present son-in-law, Jared Kushner, warned Dad that he’d be shown up if he didn’t host... Read More Read more about Trump Announces White House Seder, He Probably Won’t Attend
Israeli Settler Priests Prepare to Build Holy Temple, Resume Animal Sacrifices Mideast Peace Israeli Settler Priests Prepare to Build Holy Temple, Resume Animal Sacrifices Richard Silverstein April 15, 2014 An Israeli friend has found an amazing YouTube video (apologies that it is in Hebrew without English... Read More Read more about Israeli Settler Priests Prepare to Build Holy Temple, Resume Animal Sacrifices
Next Year in a Shared Jerusalem! Jews & Judaism Mideast Peace Next Year in a Shared Jerusalem! Richard Silverstein March 28, 2010 The closing invocation of the traditional seder is l’shana ha-ba’ah b’Yerushalayim (“Next year in Jerusalem”). It’s sung... Read More Read more about Next Year in a Shared Jerusalem!
A Zis’n Peysach: Wishing You Joy and Redemption Jews & Judaism Mideast Peace Politics & Society A Zis’n Peysach: Wishing You Joy and Redemption Richard Silverstein April 20, 2008 The Ma Nishtanah page from the Sarajevo Haggadah (source: Talmud.de) To all my Jewish readers I wish... Read More Read more about A Zis’n Peysach: Wishing You Joy and Redemption
Passover Music: Hazzan Issac Azoze’s Rhodes-style ‘Ma Nishtanah’ Folk & World Music Jews & Judaism Seattle Passover Music: Hazzan Issac Azoze’s Rhodes-style ‘Ma Nishtanah’ Richard Silverstein April 11, 2006 Hazzan Issac Azoze is the emeritus cantor of Seattle’s Congregation Ezra Besarroth, a community of Jews from... Read More Read more about Passover Music: Hazzan Issac Azoze’s Rhodes-style ‘Ma Nishtanah’
Passover Music: Sephardic Cantor Alberto Mizrahi ‘Sings Ki Lo No’e’ Folk & World Music Jews & Judaism Passover Music: Sephardic Cantor Alberto Mizrahi ‘Sings Ki Lo No’e’ Richard Silverstein April 6, 2006 In 1995, a Jewish neonatologist decided that the world needed a Jewish answer to the Gregorian chant... Read More Read more about Passover Music: Sephardic Cantor Alberto Mizrahi ‘Sings Ki Lo No’e’
Passover Music: Western Wind’s ‘Chad Gadyo’ Folk & World Music Jews & Judaism Passover Music: Western Wind’s ‘Chad Gadyo’ Richard Silverstein April 5, 2006 Here’s the second in my series on Passover music. Like the first entry, I’m keeping with the... Read More Read more about Passover Music: Western Wind’s ‘Chad Gadyo’
Passover Music: Yehoram Gaon’s ‘Un Cavritico’ (‘Had Gadya’) Folk & World Music Jews & Judaism Passover Music: Yehoram Gaon’s ‘Un Cavritico’ (‘Had Gadya’) Richard Silverstein April 4, 2006 As I’ve written here, I’m hoping to do a KBCS radio special on Passover music (just waiting... Read More Read more about Passover Music: Yehoram Gaon’s ‘Un Cavritico’ (‘Had Gadya’)