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Folks,

Had a little too much Passover this year?

As you can see, during the eight days, I enjoy finding ways to make the holiday different, and that's why I am sending this special Pesach edition of MegilLA your way.  Please help me to keep making a difference. Come on, you have been reading MegilLA for free since the last Jewish holiday (or even longer), and haven’t paid even two zuzim. Today, use that strong hand and an outstretched arm to SUBSCRIBE!

Shabbat shalom and chag sameach.

Edmon J. Rodman

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A slice of Passover

Edmon J. Rodman

Can one tell the story of Passover using only candy fruit slices? Looking at my drab seder plate, I wondered if I could make both it and my seder come alive by adding something bright and colorful.
 

Could four flavors— lemon, lime, orange, and cherry— bring new dimension to a story already filled with fours?
 

Right out of the box, my seder plate was sweetly transformed. At long last I could eat the shank bone.

At the fruit slice seder, even the wicked son, or daughter, will finish four full cups.
 

Matzah will have a new flavor, and I can hide the afikomen in the fruit bowl.

Why is this night different? The telling of the going out from Egypt will take on new forms.

There will be a re-imagining of the plagues.
 

And a strongly-colored hand will lead us.
 

Any way you slice it, at seder's end we will say:
Next year in Jerusalem!

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Over 120 have attended LA Jewish walk

I am excited about my next tour of Broadway this Sunday, April 24 at 7 pm, and hope you can join me on this walk through LA's Jewish past.
 
Previous tours have shown it to be an evening of unexpected Jewish connections, filled with the stories of the Jewish impresarios, architects, merchants and dreamers, many of them immigrants, who helped to create the once vibrant entertainment and commercial core of the city.
 
On the walk, we take in the neon lights they lit to promote their businesses, and the storefronts that were once filled with their goods.
 
Along the way, we even show the remnants I have collected of their businesses: the hats and clothing they sold and manufactured, and the cans, bottles and boxes that once held their wares.
 
The 1.5-mile round trip walk, with a snack break at the Grand Central Market participants have found that the tour creates an environment where they can connect both with the Jewish personalities who helped to create LA, and with each other.
 
Organized with the Museum of Neon Art, Each tour has about 20 people, and for April 24th, there are just 7 spaces left.
 
The street comes alive with so many Jewish connections, it's like taking a stroll through an open-air Jewish museum.
 
Over 120 people have already attended.
 
Reserve a spot Here.

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