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Growing up, our family almost always hosted a Passover seder using the Maxwell House haggadah. I found it funny that a coffee company published a haggadah, but it wouldn’t have been a seder without its odd phrases woven throughout the story. I always hoped it would be my turn to read when we got to “the hills like rams and mountains like lambs” part and crossed my fingers under the table to avoid a paragraph with “omnipresent” (omNIpresent? omNEEpresent? I’m still not sure). I read my part when it was my turn and in between, kept track of how many pages were left...

The Young Jewish Conservatives’ Purim luncheon at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) had everything: a speed reading of the Megillah by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, hamentaschen, a kid from Brooklyn dressed in a red squid costume, a comedian in a Rush Limbaugh sweatshirt, and a comparison of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar to Haman. Image by Sarah M. Brown Shmuley Boteach speed reading the Megillah at Purim luncheon sponsored by Young Jewish Conservatives at CPAC. True, the festive gathering of 80-100 Jewish conservatives at the Hyatt Regency Hotel was only a sideshow to C...