Pesach! Matzoh! Moror!
The wonders of Passover during the last eight days, exemplifying Jewish pride & tradition were --- to remember ---- to relive --- by thousands of JHPers each experiencing, as if it were their own, afflictions, sacrifices & bitterness of an era of bondage ending miraculously by revealing, overcoming to an Exodus to freedom. Seders & Pesadicha beauty were everywhere throughout these eight days.

At the Old City Jewish Arts Center (OCJAC) in Philly, in addition to two Seders on Pesach nights, as part of First Friday celebration, a continuous flow of Jews, as if they were crossing the Red Sea, entered our gallery spiritually driven to satisfy their hunger for the taste & meaning of Pesach! Matzoh! Moror!

No matter what level of their beliefs, all souls entered yearning for Pesach! As if in the Red Sea, tri-colored Gilfete fish, singing like the birds, artwork like jewels in the Red Sea & Pesach renditions & treats delighted Jewish Neshumas. A monumental work of art by Mark Segal, a complete Haggadah, with elaborate text & lovely pictures, beautified a wall of the gallery like one of the walls made by splitting the sea.

Other works of art by reputed artists depicting aspects of the Exodus & Pesach adorned the walls & floors of the gallery in a myriad of mediums so beautiful, but too many to mention. Just like the beauty of heaven was brought down to earth in the splitting of the Red Sea, so goes the beauty and experience of this monumental, indescribable exhibit at the OCJAC to Zeycher (remember) Le Pesach!

Other contributing artists most of whose works have been exhibited worldwide: Joanne Hoffman, Susan Yitzhak, Cynthia Blackwood, Frannie Schmerling, Zena Kaplan, Isaiah Zagar, Dorothy Koch, Jeffrey Allon, Rachel Shoham & Linda Dubin Garfield.

Student Run Seder At Penn
On Penn’s campus, a JHP student run Seder was conducted by Brittany Topilow & Carly Brush, two JHP Penn interns, to a crowd of their friends and students at Brittany’s home on campus. All felt spiritually connected to their heritage & each other & each relived Le Pesach.