7:00 p.m. Shabbat Services led by Rabbi George Wielechowski and Cantor Ruti Braier on the topic, "When Ancient Becomes Now: Passover's Playbook for Today's World."

Our Passover story isn't just some dusty, ancient tale—it's a living blueprint for how regular people can stand up to power when power stops caring about people. Moses didn't have social media or protest signs, but his "Let my people go" might be the original nonviolent resistance slogan.

This Shabbat, just in time for Passover weekend, we'll explore how the Exodus story might be more relevant now than it's been in generations. Every year we're asked to tell the story as if WE were the ones there, as if WE witnessed the plagues, as if WE walked through those waters to freedom. But what if this isn't just a ritual imagination exercise? What if history is actually asking us, right now, to live out our people's sacred resistance story in real time?

Join us this Friday night to unpack how our tradition's original liberation story might still be just the manual we need for bringing down the thrones of modern-day Pharaohs everywhere. 

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