Rabbi Michael Lerner, at Huffpo, on how Passover became problematic this year:
As several congregants put it to me, "We Jews have become Pharaoh to
the Palestinian people — so we would be hypocrites to sit around our
Passover table celebrating our own freedom, rejoicing at the way the
Egyptians were stricken with plague and their first born killed, while
ignoring what Israel is doing today in the name of the Jewish people."
the Palestinian people — so we would be hypocrites to sit around our
Passover table celebrating our own freedom, rejoicing at the way the
Egyptians were stricken with plague and their first born killed, while
ignoring what Israel is doing today in the name of the Jewish people."
This is precisely the kind of discussion that is appropriate for the
Seder table this year. But what I fear is that increasing numbers of
younger Jews are voting with their feet by distancing themselves from
this, one of the most beautiful rituals of the Jewish year.
