The seder plate is never too full to examine how liberation, the central concept of Passover, applies today. Questioning how to free oneself, or how to stretch the boundaries of what being Jewish is, elicited lively responses from a sampling of Bay Area Jews.
Personal freedom can mean a lot of different things to different people.
In February 1945, Blick was freed from the Kaiserwald concentration camp in Poland. It's like being given your life back. In sharp contrast, playing basketball represents pure freedom and joy for family counselor Steven Pechter Freemire of Berkeley. Going all-out on the court is a kind of meditation for me. Being in a zone is like almost no other experience, being in the flow of something without any sense of being outside it.