The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-09
JEWISH SYNAGOGUE
 CELEBRATION SCENE
Dr. Morris NeWfieId to Con- duct Passover Services
 at the Temple

Passover, the Jewish festival of liberation, known in Hebrew as '.Pesach," begins Wednesday April 12 and at o'clock Dr. Morris Newfield will conduct the Passover services at Temple Emanu-El.
 Starting on this evening every Jewish household in the country eats Matzoth, the unleavened bread. In some households no leaven of any character is eaten during the eight days the festival of Passover is ob- served.
 Among the more liberal Jews of this country Passover ends on Wed nesday, April 19. In most Jewish homes, however liberal, portion Of the elaborate ritual built up during the long centuries this feast has been celebrated will be retained.
 The opening evening of the fes- tival. known as Seder night. will certainly be observed in all Jewish homes. special ritual has been compiled for this service called the "Haggadah.' This venerable volume recites the events of the Exodus by means of quaint songs and stories and endeavors to awaken within the soul of old and young a love of liberty. The ritual of the Seder stresses the notion that each one is to regard himself as if he himself came forth from the house of Egyp- tian bondage,
 Additional efforts have been ex- erted by the central conference of Amariran ra rahhic n ma tival of Seder more appreciated among the younger generation of American Israel and to this end a new edition of the "Haggadah" is being prepared which will retain the salinet features of the ancient ritual and omit only such fragments as are obscure and inapplicable to our day and generation.
 Congregations Celebrate
 Many Jewish congregations and or ganizations are planning to celebrate Seder in their own institutions. While primarily a feast for the home there is no traditional objection, to an in- stitution, symbolizing as it does large family, gathering about a fes- tive board and reviving common memories
 Originally Passover was an agri- cultural feast. At later period it became dissociated in part from it's primitive nature and was Identified with an event in the early history of the Hebrews which invested the festi- val with the new and highly signifi- cant spiritual message of liberty for all mankind.
 Note of Spring Reflected
 In the synagogue the note of spring is reflected in the assigned scriptural reading from the Song of Songs wherein the worshiper is reminded that the winter is over and gone and the song of the turle-dove is again heard in the land.
 This joyous note is not sounded to the exclusion of the historical asso- citation of the Exodus of the Chill dren of Israel from Egypt. The pur- pose of the Passover Is to recall to mind the many miracles which were wrought in behalf of the House of Jacob by the never slumbering Guard ian and Keeper of Israel.
 Throughout the festival of Pass over the historical circumstances of this delivery from Egyptian bondage is wildly revived and the scenes re- viewed where the kindred of Joseph were degraded to slave labor in the very country upon which their illus trious ancestor had showered richest blessings. Their enslavement of body afflicted likewise their souls. They sank into the grievious thraldom or despair.
 The deliverance from Egyptian ty- ranny assured them that their suppli- cations had been heard on high. The memory of this redemption reminds the modern Jews that they too must be on their guard against oppression and work with all their might for the eventual triumph of humanity over the tyranny of injustice and iniquity'
 Passover has inspired the Jew to trust in the eventual reign of right