The ever-dying people.

The few small Jewish groups that maintain the practice.

Absent miracles, might usually wins.

A Tom Thumb rabbi and a blood libel.

And the traditional importance of Maimonides’ principles of faith.

A communal, and often political, ritual that was commonplace for a few decades.

And told customers not to buy its products on Passover.

Praying for an unseen land.

Egypt and Bergen-Belsen.

We owe a legacy of anger to the past.

Pure, not simple.