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This year's installment of the Seder Trivia Game. 3 unusual stories of Pesach in the news .... two are true, one is false. (If you follow the Jewish news closely, this one won't be too hard.) Previous years' Seder Trivia Games are on elsewhere on my blog.   Story #1:  One of the most unusual moments of the Jewish year happens on the day before Passover, when the rabbi of the community sells the community’s Hametz products to a non-Jew, so it will not be owned by Jews over Pesach. After the holiday is over, the sale is reversed and the Hametz is returned to the people in the Jewish community. This year, one midwestern Orthodox rabbi was pondering to whom to sell his community’s Hametz -- and he came up with an idea. he thought of a person who was internationally renowned for identifying wise and somewhat unusual investments. His name, of course, is Warren Buffett. So this rabbi of the Jewish community of Omaha, Nebraska wrote a letter to Warren Buffett, the legendary in...

  At our synagogue's congregational seders for the last few years, we have played the following game:  I have collected unusual Pesach stories, and shared three such stories with the community:  two true stories, and one fictional story.  Participants then have to guess which two stories are true and which one is false.   (If you listen to Wait, wait, don't tell me , you get the idea, except that only one story is false.) You can see previous editions of this game here http://rabbischeinberg.blogspot.com/search?q=trivia . This is what was presented at our congregational seder in 2021.  2 are true; one is fictional. Answers at the bottom! ============================== ========================= The Passovers of 2020 and 2021 have truly remarkable in Jewish history.  Our trivia game this year includes three stories about pandemic-era Passover observances; 2 of these stories are true and one is false.  #1: Seder 2020 required a lot of chang...

At our synagogue's congregational seders for the last several years, we have played the following game: I have collected unusual Pesach stories, and shared three such stories with the community: two true stories, and one fictional story. Participants then have to guess which two stories are true and which one is false. (If you listen to  Wait, wait, don't tell me,  you get the idea, except that only one story is false.) You can see previous editions of this game here  http://rabbischeinberg.blogspot.com/search?q=trivia . This is what was presented at our congregational seder in 2024. Two stories are true; one is fictional. Answers at the bottom!  (Note:  All photos inspired by the stories were created by AI. )    Story #1:  Why do we dip a green vegetable in salt water at the beginning of the seder?  The most popular answer is that the salt water recalls the tears of our ancestors in slavery in Egypt.  But there’s another answer: The Tor...

At our synagogue's congregational seders for the last few years, we have played the following game: I have collected unusual Pesach stories, and shared three such stories with the community: two true stories, and one fictional story. Participants then have to guess which two stories are true and which one is false. (If you listen to Wait, wait, don't tell me, you get the idea, except that only one story is false.) You can see previous editions of this game here http://rabbischeinberg.blogspot.com/search?q=trivia . This is what was presented at our congregational seder in 2022. 2 are true; one is fictional. Answers at the bottom! =================================================================== Maybe you’ve seen the news about the “great Passover Kosher chicken shortage of 2022.”  It inspired our trivia game this year:  All our three stories this year are related to unusual stories in the news about the availability, or lack of availability, of specific Passove...

At our synagogue's congregational seders for the last few years, we have played the following game:  I have collected unusual Pesach stories, and shared three such stories with the community:  two true stories, and one fictional story.  Participants then have to guess which two stories are true and which one is false.   (If you listen to Wait, wait, don't tell me , you get the idea, except that only one story is false.) You can see previous editions of this game here http://rabbischeinberg.blogspot.com/search?q=trivia . This is what was presented at our congregational seder in 2016, in honor (?) of that election year. A ll 3 stories this year have to do with people who reached, or aspired to reach, the Presidency of the United States.  2 are true; one is fictional. ======================================================= A: Many of us saw videos of visits to Matzah factories in the spring of 2016 by presidential candidates Ted Cruz and ...

At our synagogue's congregational seders for the last several years, we have played the following game: I have collected unusual Pesach stories, and shared three such stories with the community: two true stories, and one fictional story. Participants then have to guess which two stories are true and which one is false. (If you listen to Wait, wait, don't tell me, you get the idea, except that only one story is false.) You can see previous editions of this game here http://rabbischeinberg.blogspot.com/search?q=trivia . This is what was presented at our congregational seder in 2025. Two stories are true; one is fictional. Answers at the bottom!  (Note:  All photos were created by AI, so the photos will not help you determine which questions are true or false.)  STORY  #1: You can find Israeli tourists almost anywhere in the world, as well as businesses that provide for the needs of Israeli tourists.  Take, for example, Moshe Abutbul and his cousin Yaniv Cohen....