Jerry Chasen's Blog

Passover this year found seventeen of us in Athens as part of a rather elaborate celebration of my mom’s 80th birthday.

As it happens, the morning of the day on which the first Seder fell in 2009, was also the return to the skies at the time of creation. There’s tremendous power in “starting over”, especially when it’s conscious!

Reflections on both the state of Israel, and my state of mind. The photograph is of a wall in Israel after the 2007 conflict with Lebanon that was spray painted with the Star of David, and the Hebrew “Am Yisroel Chai”–the People of Israel Live.

We call Passover the holiday of Freedom–but what are we really talking about?

Passover’s all about order–and so is this poemograph.