HERALD PAGES 9-12 the Only English-Jewish Weekly in Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts
***************CAR-RT SORT**C-027 1874 04/ 01/00 BUREAU OF JEW I SH EDUCATION 130 Sess i ons St Providence RI 02906-3444 11 Rhode Island JeW1·s·n'·"· .. , .. ,., .. ,., .. , .. II.II .... ,.,., Spring Home and Garden HERALD PAGES 9-12 The Only English-Jewish Weekly in Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts VOLUME LXIX, NUMBER 22 NISAN 29, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1999 351! PER COPY Sharing Pride, Prayer and Matzoh at Temple Beth-El Women's Seder by Emily Torgan-Shalansky "Why a women's seder?" vice rife with symbols of how Jewish Community Reporter Cahana began, reading from an modem women could represent he first of the Four Ques especially compiled Haggadah. themselves within an ancient tions is usually asked as "Something very special hap tradition, the guest found them Tfollows: Why is this night pens when women come to selves facing seder plates lhat different from all other gether to form a community. bore the requisite karpas, nights? While we are part of the larger charoset, egg and shankbone as The familiar, beloved answer community of Kial Yisrael, we well as a large orange. goes like this: It's different be have a distinct voice, a voice Twenty-five years ago, Pro cause it's Passover, the time that wants to be heard in its fessor Susannah Heschel, the when we remember our libera uniqueness. As bearers of Jew daughter of the renowned Jew tion from Egypt. ish tradition, we want to expand ish scholar Abraham Joshua However, this traditional re on, inspire and deepen the in Heschel, was speaking at a syna sponse does not fully explain a terpretations of that tradition." gogue on the controversial sub Mom, Can I Take It Home? Passover gathering that drew In an unusually high-pitched ject of Jewish women as leaders The first and second grades at the Providence Hebrew Day 230 women to Temple Beth-El rumble that seemed to become and rabbis," Cahana read.
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