Passover with Mohammed: A Jewish Journalist in Yemen
…Jews don’t eat anything leavened during Passover, to remember that we fled Egypt in such a rush we couldn’t even let the bread finish rising. The eight-day holiday is about remembering this historical moment—Exodus, our liberation from slavery in Egypt—and also about seeing the world as a stranger, through someone else’s eyes. Khalid and I take a break from the cramped newsroom where we work for lunch. I’m an editor at an English newspaper in Sana…
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