Tag: Passover

Yes, it’s time for my annually revamped Passover post

Posted on April 5, 2023 by Bookworm

Every year for Passover, I write a post describing the general principles but with a different person standing in as Pharoah. This year, Biden again gets the Egyptian crown.

Happy Passover!

Posted on April 15, 2022 by Bookworm

Dennis Prager explains why, although Passover is a Jewish celebration, it nevertheless has important (and very positive) worldwide meaning: Happy Passover! Image: A man reciting a blessing over a cup of wine at a Passover Seder in the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland (cropped). Yad Vashem collection.

My annual Passover post, with Biden in Pharaoh’s role this year

Posted on March 29, 2021 by Bookworm

Every year, I publish a variation of my Passover post, with the latest enemy of freedom starring as Pharaoh. This year, Biden is Pharaoh. For roughly 3,500 years, Jews have been telling and retelling the story of Passover — which is also the story of the world’s first revolt against

For Passover this year, China will take Pharaoh’s role

Posted on April 8, 2020April 8, 2020 by Bookworm

The Passover story provides us with deep insights into the nature of tyranny. This year, China’s tyranny is the subject of my annual Passover post. For roughly 3,500 years, Jews have been telling and retelling the story of Passover — which is also the story of the world’s first revolt

Further thoughts about the situation in Iran

Posted on January 8, 2020January 8, 2020 by Bookworm

I continue to believe that Trump did the right thing vis-a-vis Iran by killing Soleimani, the terrorist, and these are a few random thoughts to explain why. At a base, reflexive level, I’ve gotten to the point at which anything the Democrats are against, I’m for. If they think we

Passover: the nature of tyranny never changes but freedom is worth the fight

Posted on April 19, 2019January 8, 2020 by Bookworm

Passover tells us that tyrants fall only when revolution affects them directly and that revolutions are successful only when focused on individual liberty. Passover, which begins tonight, is about so many things: the Jewish people’s renewed covenant with God; their escape from slavery; the journey that ended with the Ten

Religion should look like and act like religion — or why bother? UPDATED

Posted on March 17, 2019March 18, 2019 by Bookworm

There’s nothing like trying to find a good synagogue to teach you that, when religion seeks meaning in pop culture not God, it no longer serves mankind. Would any of you argue with me if I opened this post by saying that traditional religion is under attack in the West?

The news from North Korea reminds is that Passover is always relevant

Posted on March 30, 2018March 30, 2018 by Bookworm

Trump’s decision to change the paradigm with North Korea illustrates the precept in my annual Passover post: Tyrannies must be decapitated, not placated. Starting with Bill Clinton, America fawned over North Korea’s tyrannical rulers, sending them money and promising not to hurt them. In those same years, North Korea’s rulers

Facebook provides a useful, and disturbing, insight into the Leftist world view

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Bookworm

Thanks to my Facebook feed, I have a front row seat for the Leftist world view, which is occasionally amusing and invariably somewhat frightening. One of the useful things about my Facebook feed is the plethora of posts educating me about the Leftist world view. My feed means that, unlike

Passover 5778 — In a dangerous world, a more relevant holiday than ever

Posted on April 10, 2017April 10, 2017 by Bookworm

Tonight marks the beginning of Passover 5778. Donald Trump’s targeted attack on Syria indicates that he understands the import of this timeless story. In mid-2009, a few months into Barack Obama’s presidency, Iran had its Green Revolution, when tens of thousands of brave Iranians took to the streets in Tehran

Screen shot of missile strike Trump ordered

Dayenu, President Trump! For each thing you’ve done, it would have been enough

Posted on April 7, 2017April 7, 2017 by Bookworm

As Passover nears, it’s time to take stock of the wonderful things President Trump has done, each of which, on its own, should please conservatives. Dayenu! Passover is around the corner and I have an ear worm: The Passover song Dayenu. The Hebrew word “Dayenu” (דַּיֵּנוּ) means “it would have been enough,”

Tyrants do not care about their people’s suffering; only about their own

Posted on April 22, 2016April 22, 2016 by Bookworm

I first published a Passover post in March 2010, when Iran was in the news because of the Green Revolution. The Mullah’s tyranny resonated with me as I thought about the Passover story. But there’s tyranny in the world every year — in ISIS territory, in North Korea, in Cuba,

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The Bookworm Beat 4/21/16 — a round-up and open thread

Posted on April 21, 2016April 21, 2016 by Bookworm

My take on the decision to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 in place of Andrew Jackson? I find all this change and revisionism both silly and expensive but, having said that, here’s my position: They’re replacing the racist, slave-supporting, Indian-killing founder of the Democrat party with a gun-toting, Republican black

The Bookworm Beat 5-26-15 — the “mad, mad, mad, mad world” edition and open thread

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Bookworm

No time for chit-chat. I’ve got stuff to share: America’s values have turned upside down It’s a time-honored custom for older people to look at changes in the world since their youth and to bemoan those changes. I’d like to think I’m neither that rigid nor that old. There are

My annual Passover post, updated to reflect 2015’s scary realities

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Bookworm

I first published a Passover post in March 2010, when Iran was in the news because of the Green Revolution. (By the way, Obama’s peculiar inaction then — that is, his unwillingness to side with the ordinary people against the Mullah’s tyranny — takes on a whole new meaning in