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Learn how the author of this special Passover reading views the many blessings America has offered Jews throughout history.

At my seder, as at many, we go around the table, taking turns reading successive pieces of the text. In the Magid section (the portion of the seder that retells the story of the exodus from Egypt), right before the story of the Four Children, someone gets this story:

The Hillel sandwich - bitter herbs and sweet charoset between two pieces of matzah - is emblematic of so many chapters of Jewish history.

At this Passover season, our children – the wise ones, the motivated ones, the angry ones, and the fearful ones – are asking us their own four questions.

Instead of fighting over ownership of land, let us practice concern for all people.

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These days, I spend my time working with a group of people who have tasted the bitterness of slavery, torture, and hardship, and who long for freedom, the African asylum-seeking community in Israel.

As my children will attest, I can be “bossy.”  I try to step back and let them live their lives as independent adults, but it’s hard.