By Jay Kitterman, Correspondent
“Why is this night different from all other nights?” is the best-known question from the Passover family dinner (Seder) and is usually recited by the youngest person at the table. This year, because of COVID-19, I, along with our son and son-in-law, will not have to rearrange our living room furniture to accommodate the 25 or so guests we normally host for our Seder dinner. Jews will be celebrating Passover this year from sundown March 27 until sundown April 4.
First, a brief explanation of the Passover Holiday. Passover, or Pesach, is the Jewish holiday that marks the Israelites freedom from slavery in ancient Egypt, and the “passing over” of the first-born male Israelites from harm.
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It is no secret that Elvis Presley had various Jewish affinities and connections throughout his life. As a teenager, for example, he lived downstairs from an Orthodox Jewish family for whom he would switch on lights on Saturdays. The so-called Memphis Mafia his running gang of friends, helpers, and hangers-on had a handful of Jewish members. He occasionally sported necklaces bearing the Star of David and the Hebrew word “chai” (meaning “life”).
But according to a new book “The Jewish World of Elvis Presley” by Roselle Kline Chartock Elvis’s Jewish connections were more than just a series of coincidences. Elvis, it turns out, was not merely passing through a “Jewish world” as an outsider but as a member of the tribe himself, one who could trace direct matrilineal descent back at least as far as his great-great grandmother. While all of these facts and many more have been revealed previously, Chartock is the first author to gather them into the pages of o
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When I think about Jewish holidays, I think about the oil burning for eight days and the plagues descending on the Egyptians and all that. But I also think about Manischewitz matzo and their matzo ball soup mix and I think about Manischewitz wine. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s absurdly, grotesquely sweet. It is not good wine. Some people find it undrinkable. And yet for many, even those same people who find it undrinkable, a Jewish holiday just isn’t complete without a bottle of Manischewitz.
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