Good Pesach!

Tonight at sundown begins Passover, perhaps the raddest Jewish holiday of them all. Sure, Chanukah gets all the attention because of its proximity to Christmas (thus leading to Jewsmas, our creation, but that's another story). However, we have always been partial to Passover. Why? So glad you asked. Passover is a celebration of the Jews escape from slavery in Egypt, throwing off the shackles of oppression and becoming a free people again. And the story isn't a slow, grinding process of…

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Go Down, Moses

If you read last year's "Good Pesach!" post, you know how we feel about Passover: a truly bad-ass Jewish Holiday. The God of the Old Testament rains His wrath on those who enslaved His people, plagues fire from His fingertips, blood flows in the rivers, frogs pour from heaven, boils erupt on the skin of the oppressors, an avenging angel sweeps across the land in the dark of night, the very earth rises from the bottom of the sea to carry…

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