I’ll be leaving tomorrow to go to my in-laws’ for Passover. Happy Passover, everybody!
Hmmm… isn’t that the holiday to celebrate the forty something showing of the “Ten Commandments” with Charlton Heston?
;j
You too! This is the first time ever that I won’t be with my family for one of the holidays, so I’m making my own seder and inviting practically half of the grad students in the department. Unfortunately, I have a paper due Wednesday and a paper due Thursday so I think the cooking is going to be a bit stressful. Still - I’m very excited.
Good luck with it!
You might be able to get an extension on the Thursday paper- at least the university I went to (University of Maryland) forbade “significant assessments” on the first or second day of Passover.
And remember- grad students will generally eat anything if it’s free. When we’ve got leftover matzo after Passover, Mr. Neville takes it in to his work (he’s a postdoc at Berkeley’s astronomy department). Somebody, and we suspect it’s the grad students, eats it.
Oy.
We’re going to a professor’s house for Pesach. He’s one of the Hillel advisors, and like most of us, doesn’t have family in the area, so he and his wife open their home for holidays.
I’ve also been working on a series of podcasts about Passover. I’ll post a link soon.
Robin
Hag sameach!
I’m still working on an ongoing project. 1915 - 1920, my great-aunts in NYC were in the Kane Street Synagogue choir, under R. Israel Goldfarb. There they learned a version of B’tzes Yisroel (Psalm 114) that our family still sings at the Seder – but they only wrote down their part, the alto line, and that in the 1970s or early 80s. I have spent some time since last Pesach researching Rabbi Goldfarb’s work, and various other arrangements, in the quest for the complete arrangement.
Right now, I have versions by:
“Habad Hassidim adapted by J.K.E.” from The New Haggadah.
Rabbi S. Taub of Modzitz
Louis Lewandowski
Elieser Gerovitsch
And I have a lead on a new version compiled (possibly arranged) by Hazzan Ramon Tasat, in the Italian tradition.
I’m still looking for the Goldfarb version, and would be very thankful for any leads about it. The fun part is, I’m not certain he wrote it – he may have gotten it from someone else.
Yes, indeedy - this Episcopalian wishes you all a very Happy Passover!
HAPPY PASSOVER!!!
I’m going to my first Passover dinner Wednesday. A friend of mine has been kind enough to invite me and several other wonderful folks. She said opening your home to people is sort of what the holiday is all about.
Happy Passover!
I’ve got my first seder tonight, too, and I’m both excited and nervous about it. I never went to a seder while I was growing up; Dad isn’t that religious after growing up Orthodox, and Mom is … well, Lutheran.
I’m not removing the chometz from my house and diet, bit I did buy several cases of Passover Coke. ;j
This Presbyterian wishes everyone a very Happy Passover. Be safe to those who are travelling.
Yes, indeed. Happy Passover!
And to the Christians, Happy Yeaster!
For everybody else, be happy for some other reason! Yes, even you.
happy passover!
This is my first year without a seder. I have too much work to do, so I can’t go home to visit the parents and have the traditional HUGE seder/feast. I grabbed what I could at the grocery store today, including some fresh-made haroset, eggs and latkes (yea, not channukah, but ive always had some for passover too). I wish I had seen their matzo ball soup before I’d attacked the salad bar though!
I’m jealous- I haven’t been able to find Passover Diet Coke anywhere. So I’m drinking iced tea instead, which I don’t like nearly as well, until Thursday night.
Large Marge, elmwood, how were your experiences at your first seders?
It was great! I went to two seders, one at a family’s house, the other at my (Reform) synagogue.
The converts and New Jews-to-be all stayed far away from the gefilte fish, though. ;j
Good to hear that it went well.
Your loss. I love gefilte fish…
Happy Passover ! ;j ;j ;j
[from a non-believer] Have a great time, all. 
I didn’t get to go. 
I got off work that day after 7 p.m., and had to get up at 4 a.m. the next day, so I had to cancel.