Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

Celebrating Passover is easy for most of us today: food is plentiful, we are not persecuted, nor is overt expression of being a Jew frowned upon. It was not always so: from the time of Moses, to the Inquisitions in Spain and Portugal, the Holocaust, and living in Arab countries and communist Eastern Europe, celebrating Passover– the holiday of freedom– has often required sacrifice and even extraordinary courage. Bruner will discuss pivotal moments in history when Jews continued to observe Passover in spite of remarkable adversity, and how the holiday has remained the touchstone of Jewish identity over millennia.