The wise son as Hannibal.

On leaven and legal fictions.

Learning from a rejected liturgy.

A grandfather’s postcards tell of his last days under the Nazis.

A correspondence from the revived gulag.

A lesson from a heroic priest and the New York Times.

And what it has to do with Passover.

Joy or sorrow between Passover and Shavuot?

Yannai’s “It Came to Pass at Midnight.”

The “haggadah in a new dress.”

“As they sat in shul all those centuries ago, they could hear the Song of Songs, and feel hope for the final redemption.”

Imagining the first Passover.