The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, April 01, 1977, Image 1

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} f r ms 1 imp*' >i Nb tup . AF1WW**-. pend their boundless energies in Hungary and every other cow- looking for the ofikoman. try into which the diaspora led At the very heart of Passover them, is the tradition of matso, the un- Sometimes, unfortunately, leavened Inroad known es the they did not escape alive and it is “breed of affliction’ because it is to avoid this fete that we asy a believed that in their haste to special prayer for the Russian depart Egypt the Jews wen not j €W e* deliverance at Pmanvar. .Shssvrfc ; w ssaiai saS asrffSffi-isf trrsswsss passage from slavery to freedom. It is somehow fitting that the holiday comes just as nature is replenishing itself and shaking off the cold darkness of winter. . As Jews sit down~at seders to ritual** the account oQfegm’ Israel to Russia (JTA) - where the general human rights of Soviet issue, and the apwiffc Jewish Israel today with two mawr ones to come up. at the Western Wall in the Old At the Western Wall City hern and in Tel Aviv’s Ashkenazi Chief Rzbbi Shlomo Hamedlna Square! The rallies Goren observed that one quarter wen called to mark the of the Jewish nation could not deterioration in the situation of yet say on seder night "this year Soviet Jews and to highlight we are bnei horin — fine men.’ their inability to observe Foreign Minister Yigal Alton Passover, the festival of said 60 years of Bolshevik op- freedom, in freedom. pression had not stilled the Observers believed the timing Jewish spirit The Jews of the was also intended to coincide Soviet Union were still throb- with U.S. Secretary of State bing with Jewish life and faith, Cyrus Vance's visit to Moscow he said. 1 ■' Uur ooi*d Atlanta. Ga., Friday, April 1, 1977 NO. IS 8t Louij Jewish Light At Western Well by Jack Qefdbart Passover and spring arrived together this year and both holidays are suffused with the joy of celebrating a "new begin ning.’ Starting Saturday evening, April 2 and lasting through Sunday, April 10, Paaaover, commemorates the Jaws’ the story from the Haggidah. Passover is a time for family. In fact, the seder is based on file injunction that parents inform their children of the deliverance from Egypt “And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: It b because of that which the Lord did for me when I came forth out of Egypt” (Ex 13:8). It is a. holiday that the children enjoy and dearly love. They take center stage to ask the ’Four Questions’ and can ex- A mortgage In flames at AJCC 8-V 36 ■ Urn seuudiiigst the flhefartrsdmeuslty marks the bsgfamI of the Passover Pilgrimage to Mt Zion, Jerusalem. Men Jerusalem eu page 29. <*N8 phsto) ». ... . ' Campaign countdown _