Leo Gordon’s tongue-in-cheek letter about reparations owed to the Jews for their Egyptian enslavement (April 30) reminds me of a story in the Talmud’s Tractate Sanhedrin. The Egyptians were claiming ...
“Why is this night different from all other nights?” Thus, at sunset begins the ritual of questions during the Seder meal with which observant Jews start the celebration of Passover, or Pesach, which ...