April 05th, 2018

Have a good Passover...

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​“Passover or Pesach from Hebrew is a major, biblically derived Jewish holiday. Jews celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation by 
God from slavery in ancient Egypt and their freedom as a nation under the leadership of Moses. It commemorates the story of the Exodus as described in the Hebrew Bible, especially in the Book of Exodus, in which the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt. According to standard biblical chronology, this event would have taken place at about 1300 BCE (AM 2450).’“   - Wikipedia
(Typo edited 4/13/20) Passover 2018, began on the evening of Friday, March 30, and ends the evening of Saturday, April 7.   - Google


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"In the debris and rubble of war I see a woman caked in heavy dust, face wiped clean in streaks, tear stains sacrificing grief to gravity.  She has long black hair, um, covered in gray powder.  The woman is holding the empty body of a small child with her head unsupported, small legs and arms drape boneless from outstretched hands and fingers.  The toddler is barefoot, dirty, bloody, broken.  Sobbing, the woman’s dark inset eyes are, uh, focused on her child.  The mother and child have the same desert-brown coloring of Moses, Jesus, Mary, Mohammed.  We don't know if the mother and child are Israeli or Palestinian: we can’t tell -- the camera pans and we move on…"  (toon posted earlier)




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