Sentence examples for passover from inspiring English sources

Before an overflow crowd of more than 1,000, Holder joined Kansas Governor Sam Brownback and several religious leaders at an interfaith memorial service at the Jewish Community Center, the site of one of two shootings that stunned the city on the eve of Passover.

But Menachem Begin, leader of the right-wing Irgun, wanted to capture Jaffa to build his political capital in the already simmering rivalry between the left and right wings of the Zionist movement.So at the end of Passover the Irgun launched a rain of mortars onto the ancient port.

The beginning of Passover is determined by the first full moon after the vernal equinox, which can occur on any day of the week.

But the initiative was stillborn, not least because it coincided with the Palestinian intifada and one especially terrible atrocity in which a Hamas suicide-bomber blew himself up in a hotel, killing 30 Israelis at Passover.

At the time, the plan made little impression on an Israel fixated on the Palestinian intifada, which was then at its murderous height: on the previous day a Hamas suicide-bomber had killed 29 elderly Israelis at a Passover supper in a hotel.

Passover is always in the spring, the high holidays (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) always in the fall.

Only 6% said that circumcision was not important to them, and only 10% had no time for the Passover seder.

A suicide bomber from the Palestinian Islamist group, Hamas, had just killed 30 Jews at their Passover supper in the seaside resort of Netanya.

Seen from today, Altneuland is essentially a bit of comfortable, cultured, bourgeois 1900-ish Vienna transplanted to the Levant by people who happen to be Jews.It's true that at a Passover supper Herzl's hero, Friedrich Loewenberg, a Jew who had found that condition in Vienna a curse, not a blessing,pronounced theHaggadahwith a penitent's zeal, his throat often tight with emotion.

A week ago, the presiding judge paid a rare visit to the ten accused in jail (three are out on bail) to wish them a happy Passover.

The Passover prayer book, the Haggadah, which calls on God to pour his wrath onto the nations, may, he suggests, be a good place to start.