A Sinner’s Seder to Remember

For Agnostics, Atheists, Heretics, Apostates, the Ambivalent, and Those Who Want Their Sprogs to Have Some Semblance of Jewish Tradition and/or Identity

Growing up, Pesach (Passover) was my favorite holiday. It involved a Seder (meaning order) with dozens of aunts, uncles, cousins, converging on my grandparent’s three-room home (one was an outdoor patio), in Tel Aviv.

My father’s parents—we called them Bobbo and Bibbi, were Bukharian Jews—the Spotted Owls of Jews, and our Seder was complete chaos with th…