SPRING - SUMMER 2020 2 West 70Th Street New York, NY 10023 1
SPRING - SUMMER 2020 2 West 70th Street New York, NY 10023 1. From the Rabbi’s Desk FROM THE RABBI’S DESK 2. Around Shearith Israel 3. A Message from Our Parnas RabbiFELLOW Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik PESAH PASSENGERS 4. Executive Director’s Message Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik 5. Introducing Our New Deputy Executive Director: Bonnie Barest In his book Civility, Yale law In contrast, Pesah is a holiday when we 6. Announcements CONTENTS professor Stephen Carter reenact our journey out of Egypt, and we notes that in the nineteenth emphasize that this journey was one we 12. Holidays century, everyone traveled began together, and this journey is through by train. Whether it was history which continues to this day, and 13. Special Events first, second, or third class, which binds us together. There is a wonderful 14. Spotlight on the they traveled together, were tradition among many Sephardic Jews in Sisterhood forced to sacrifice a bit for each other, and to which the matzot are bound up in a napkin, treat each other with civility, in order to make with one member of the family placing it on 15. Culinary Corner the ride more bearable. They purchased a book his or her shoulder. That individual is then by Isaac Peebles, Politeness on Railroads, and asked: “From where do you come?” The 16. Excerpts from Arthur followed its rules, such as “whispering, loud reply is exquisite: “I am from Egypt, and am Goldberg Remarks talking, immoderate laughing, and singing journeying to Jerusalem. Please come with 18. Jewish Education should not be indulged by any passenger.” me.” The matza is then passed to another Pesah celebrant.
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