Passover Discomfort Over Slavery

By Julie Schonfeld

Originally posted in Religion News Service

As Jewish people and our friends and guests sit down to Passover Seders, we will hold the Passover matzo aloft and recite “this is the bread of our affliction.” The unleavened bread symbolizes flight, migration and the mortal dangers of a wandering, subsistence existence — the opposite of security and stability... [read more]