Passover

As the Passover points backward to the deliverance of Israel from Egyptian bondage, it also points to salvation by way of the death of the Lamb of God. The Washington Post's ombudsman, Geneva Overholser, agreed with critics that the articles in the Post, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times had "misdirected zeal", showing "more passion for sniffing out the flaws in San Jose's answer than for sniffing out a better answer themselves." She wrote that there was "strong previous evidence that the CIA at least chose to overlook contra involvement in the drug trade," and added, "Would that we had welcomed the surge of public interest as an occasion to return to a subject the Post and the public had given short shrift. Setting the tone of the entire law and prophets is an attack on the seed of the woman; first with Abel, then the Sons of God, Abraham, Moses and the decree to kill the male children, Saul throwing spears at David and so forth. The Post ran articles discrediting the Webb series, articles which some critics felt did not fairly address Webb's claims. It is the solution to the curse of Genesis 3:15. In the series, journalist Gary Webb argued that the CIA had knowingly permitted the Contras, the opposition rebel force they helped organize in several central American countries to overthrow Nicaragua's Sandanista government, to traffic in crack cocaine in order to raise funds for arms. The Passover, with the accompanying first day of unleavened bread and subsequent first fruits is the single most important symbolic type, pointing to the anti-type of Christ. In 1996, the San Jose Mercury News ran a controversial series of articles, which that paper later distanced itself from.

The night goes as follows:. Maybe the Post should consider not entering contests."[1]. Since Seder means "order", it is not unexpected that there is an order to the night's proceedings. The obligation is to inform readers, not to collect frameable certificates, however prestigious. According to some, these sons represent the different types of Jews, as follows:. After the 1981 publication of 'Jimmy's World' (a story for which Post reporter Janet Cooke had been nominated by Bob Woodward for the Pulitzer Prize, which she subsequently won and later returned after it was established the story was a fabrication), Post Ombudsman Bill Green concluded an investigation with several comments and recommendations, including "The scramble for journalistic prizes is poisonous. Another tradition during the seder ceremony is recalling the Four Sons: the Wise son (chacham), the Wicked son (rasha), the Simple son (tam), and the son who does not know enough to inquire (eino yodei'a lish'ol). Conservative pundits often cite it along with The New York Times as epitomizing the "liberal media"; conversely, critics on the left have indicted the Post as "culturally and politically conservative".

There is a dish of maror or "bitter [herbs]" which represent the bitterness of slavery. On one hand the majority of paper's political endorsements have historically been awarded to Democratic candidates, but on the other it has carried a number of right-wing columnists in recent years, including George Will and Michael Kelly. There is a dish of chopped fruits, nuts, and wine called Charoset which represents the mortar used by the Jews in bondage. The Post argues that its news coverage is politically neutral, an assessment that has its supporters and critics. There is a green, leafy vegetable (usually celery (Sephardic tradition) or parsley/lettuce (Ashkenazi tradition)) called Karpas which reminds the participants that Passover corresponds with Spring and the harvest, which, in ancient times was a cause for celebration itself. It is part of the Washington Post Company, which owns a number of other media and non-media companies, including Newsweek magazine, the online magazine Slate, and the Kaplan test preparation service. It has a roasted egg called a Beitzah which represents the second offerings given at the temple in Jerusalem on Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot. As of 2005 the Post had been honored with 18 Pulitzer Prizes, 18 Nieman Fellowships, and 368 White House News Photographers Association Awards, among others.

There is a roasted shank bone of a paschal lamb called a Z'roa which represents the offerings at the Temple in Jerusalem on Passover. took over as publisher and CEO of the Post. During the seder, a platter called the "Seder Plate" (ke'ara), covered with symbols of Passover, is placed at the center of the table in view of all. Her son, Donald Graham, was publisher from 1979 to 2000, when Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. If the children find it, they receive a reward or ransom, as the seder cannot end until the afikomen is found. Katharine Graham's reign is credited with seeing the Post rise in national stature through risk-taking and effective investigative reporting, most notably of the Watergate scandal, but that same risk-taking and aggressive investigative reporting led to the 1980 Janet Cooke scandal (see below). In the other custom, an adult hides the afikomen and the children look for it at the end of the meal. She was publisher of the newspaper from 1969 to 1979, chairman of the board from 1973 to 1991 and chairman of the executive committee from 1993 until her death in 2001.

If the parent can't find it, the child is given a reward for the return of the afikomen. No woman had ever run a nationally-prominent newspaper in the United States at the time. In one custom, a child "steals" it and the parent has to find it. After Graham's death, in 1963, control of the Washington Post Company passed to Katharine Graham, his wife and Meyer's daughter. Two distinct customs have arisen among some Jews regarding the afikomen, both of which involve the afikomen being hidden as a means of keeping the children interested in the proceedings. Subsequently, the conservative Washington Times, established in 1982, has been a local rival, although as of 2005 the Times had a readership only around one-eighth of the Post's. The smaller piece is returned to the set of matzohs while the larger piece is designated as the afikomen, or the "dessert" matzoh. Thenceforth its main competition was the Washington Star (Evening Star) until that paper's demise in 1981.

During the seder, the middle matzoh is broken in two. In 1954 the Post acquired its chief rival, the Washington Times-Herald, to become the only morning daily in Washington. At the seder three matzohs are used. Graham. It is traditional for a Jewish family to gather on the first two nights (only one night in Israel) for a special dinner called a seder (derived from the Hebrew word for "order", due to the very specific order of the ceremony) where the story of the Israelite exodus from Egypt is retold by the reading of the story in the seder prayer book, the Haggadah. Upon his death, in 1959, Meyer was succeeded as publisher by his son-in-law Philip L. The first and seventh days are observed as full holidays, as are the second and eighth days for Diaspora Jews. It was purchased in a bankruptcy auction in 1933 by a member of the Federal Reserve's board of governors, Eugene Meyer, who restored the paper's health and reputation.

Passover is a family holiday and a happy one. Ned went to court and broke the trust, quickly driving the paper to ruin. The holiday is also preceded by the fast of the firstborn. When John died in 1916 he put the paper in trust, having little faith in his playboy son Edward "Ned" McLean with his inheritance. Throughout the holiday, they will eat no leavened food, replacing breads, pastas, and cakes with matzoh and other specially prepared foods. In 1905 Washington McLean and his son John Roll McLean, owners of the Cincinnati Enquirer, purchased a controlling interest. This tradition is called bedikat chametz ("search [for] leavened"). Berryman's illustration Remember the Maine.

There is a custom to conduct a formal search for overlooked leavening, on the evening prior to the start of the holiday. In 1899, during the Spanish-American War, the Post printed Clifford K. Although many do a thorough job, so that not even a crumb remains, the law only requires the elimination of olive-sized quantities of leavening from one's possession. to publish daily. Before the holiday begins, observant Jews will remove and discard all food with leavening (called chametz) from their households. The paper was founded in 1877 by Stilson Hutchins and in 1880 became the first newspaper in Washington, D.C. Passover is a Jewish holiday central to Judaism. .

Thus, to critical scholarship, rather than being connected to remembrance of an ancient plague, the modern passover festival is the combination of two similar ancient festivals celebrating successful yields in farming, one of agriculture, and the other of livestock. While its circulation (like almost all newspapers) has been slipping, it has one of the highest market-penetration rates of any metropolitan news daily. wheat and barley), whereas the passover, interpreted as the feast of the spring lamb, is pointed to as being a festival of the firstborn of livestock farming. As of September 2004, its average daily circulation was 707,690 and its Sunday circulation was 1,007,487, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, making it the fifth largest newspaper in the country by circulation, behind The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. Critical scholarship points to the festival of unleavened bread as the festival of the firstborn of the agricultural crops (i.e. The majority of its readership is in the District of Columbia, as well as in the suburbs of Maryland and northern Virginia. It is only in the Holiness Code and the priestly source that a community sacrifice is mentioned for the day, JE does not mention such a thing. Unlike the Times and the Journal, however, it sees itself as a strictly regional newspaper, and does not print a national edition for distribution away from the East Coast.

According to the ancient Holiness Code, which in the documentary hypothesis is believed to pre-date much of the remainder of the priestly source portion of the torah, the festival of unleavened bread and the passover are distinguished as separate festivals (Leviticus 23). government. Thus, the passover festival was originally the spring lamb festival, explaining the sacrifice of a lamb, and the use of its blood. The Post, unsurprisingly, has distinguished itself through its reporting on the workings of the White House, Congress, and other aspects of the U.S. This change in interpretation would have had to happen before the Elohist wrote down its version of the tale of the plagues, which makes the connection with sparing, thus, according to the documentary hypothesis, this occurred at some time prior to 800BC. It is generally considered among the best daily American newspapers along with the The New York Times, which is known for its general reporting and international coverage, The Wall Street Journal, which is known for its financial reporting, and The Los Angeles Times. Consequently, critical scholarship supports the idea that the original meaning of the festival becoming lost over time, and what was once a secondary interpretation of passover as meaning sparing eventually causing an association of the festival with the plagues of Egypt. It gained worldwide fame in the early 1970s for its Watergate investigation by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, which played a major role in the undoing of the Nixon presidency.

Critical scholarship indicates that the word now translated passover derives from a root generally meaning skipping, and thus is likely to originally have simply meant the skipping motion of a young lamb. The Washington Post is the largest and oldest newspaper in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. The scholar Maimonides leaves a short commentary on the end of the verse ("It was Passover" "פסח היה"), indicating that it wasn't necessarily a standard practice to prepare and eat unleavened bread, but that Lot was in a rush to serve the angels, and therefore did not have time to prepare proper, leavened bread. Eugene Meyer. For example, Genesis 19:3 makes reference to "unleavened bread" without any reason given. King. Although the term itself is not mentioned until the Book of Exodus, there are indications that at least parts of the feast were observed in times earlier than the writing of the Book of Exodus. Colbert I.

The noun form, pesach, also appears in that same chapter, in reference to that lamb (sometimes referred to as the paschal lamb), which was sacrificed earlier that day and then eaten on that night: "and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord's passover." (Exodus 12:11). Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. The original verb in the Hebrew Torah is posach. Hills. The Torah goes on to state, that upon seeing the blood, God would pass over the homes of the Israelites. Stephen P. The final plague of the Plagues of Egypt, the killing of all the firstborn like the other plagues, did not affect Israelites. Fred Hiatt.

It came into the English language through William Tyndale's translation of the Bible, and later appeared in the King James Version as well. Philip Graham. The term Passover comes from the Hebrew Bible, first mentioned in the Book of Exodus. Katharine Graham. . Donald Graham. While many reasons are given for eating matzoh, the book of Exodus explains that it recalls the bread the Israelites ate at the time of the Exodus: in their rush to leave Egypt, they did not have time for the bread to rise. Leonard Downie, Jr.

Other customs associated with Passover include eating bitter herbs and other foods specified for the seder meal. Jackson Diehl. The commandment of retelling the Exodus is fulfilled through a communal ritual called the seder, celebrated on the first two evenings of the holiday (in Israel, only on the first evening). Milton Coleman. In ancient times (until today among the Samaritans) there was a fourth: the offering of a lamb in the evening on the 14th of the Hebrew month of Nisan (also known as Aviv) and the eating that night of the Passover sacrifice. Ben Bradlee. The three main applicable mitzvah associated with the holiday are: eating matzoh, or unleavened bread; the prohibition of eating any foods containing leavening during the holiday¹; and the retelling of the Exodus (Mitzrayim). Philip Bennett.

Passover, also known as Pesach or Pesah (פסח pesaḥ), is a Jewish holiday, beginning on the evening of the 14th day of Nisan, that commemorates The Exodus and freedom of the Israelites from Ancient Egypt. Mike Grunwald (writer). Nirtzah נירצה (Conclusion). Steve Coll (editor). Hallel הלל (Song singing, wine). Colman McCarthy (columnist). Barech ברך (After dinner blessing and wine; in Ashkenazi families: welcoming of Elijah the Prophet). Robin Wright (writer).

Tzafun צפון (Eating of the Afikomen). Bob Woodward (writer). Shulchan Orech שולחן עורך (Dinner is served; lit., "prepared table"). Will (columnist). Korech כורך (Eating of Matzah, charoset, and maror). George F. Maror מרור (Eating of charoset and maror). Michael Wilbon (writer).

Motzi/Matzah מוציא / מצה (Saying of the matzah blessing). James Russell Wiggins (editor). Rachtzah רחץ (Second washing of the hands). Gene Weingarten (writer). Maggid מגיד (Telling of the Passover story, including reciting the Four Questions). Joel Achenbach (writer). Yachatz יחץ (Breaking the middle matzoh which becomes the Afikomen). Tom Toles (cartoonist).

Karpas כרפס (Dipping of the Karpas in salt water). Howard Simons (editor). Ur'chatz ורחץ (The washing of the hands). Tom Shales (writer). Kadesh קדש (Saying of Kiddush blessing and the first cup of wine). Ken Ringle (writer). The fourth son is the Jew so unfamiliar with his heritage and traditions that he cannot relate to the subject without personal attention. William Raspberry (writer).

The Simple son is the Jew that is unlearned;. Shirley Povich (writer). The Wicked son is the Jew that mocks his religion;. Dana Milbank (writer). The Wise son is the learned Jew;. Mary McGrory (writer). Charles Lane (writer).

Howard Kurtz (media critic). Charles Krauthammer (columnist). Tony Kornheiser (writer). Colbert King (writer).

Alex Hummer (writer). Jim Hoagland (writer). Meg Greenfield (editor). Dan Froomkin (columnist).

Michel duCille (photo editor, photographer). (editor). Leonard Downie, Jr. Dionne (writer).

E.J. Janet Cooke (writer). Richard Cohen (writer). Coe (theatre critic/writer).

Richard L. Art Buchwald (writer). Tina Brown (writer). David Broder (writer).

Herb Block (cartoonist). Carl Bernstein (writer). Anne Applebaum (writer).