Dear friends,
Every Pesah is different, but we approach the Passover season this year in extraordinarily difficult times.  The  story of the Exodus from Egypt asks us to identify ourselves with the suffering of the Israelites, filled with anxiety, fear, and distress, worried for their families and for their lives.  This year more than any in recent memory that identification rings true.  But the Jewish people have celebrated this Festival of Freedom in difficult circumstances before,