The Passover holiday marks a long tradition of telling. At the Seder—an eighteen-hour dinner that kicks off eight days of matzah-induced chronic constipation, we Jews read from a book called the Haggadah, (literally translated as telling), and we tell our children the Exodus story. For the unfamiliar, it’s a classic Bugger Off! tale that goes something …
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