5 Feet of Fury

‘Stop continuously asking, ‘When are the latkes going to be served?”

Rabbi Simcha Weinstein’s top 10 Passover seder “do’s and don’ts” in Gourmet magazine:

You might be able to communicate in 140 characters or less, but at the seder table, we make Hebrew our second language. No texting, tweeting, Friending (or un-Friending), Liking, or, you guessed it, Poking is allowed. In order to return to the Egypt of old, if only for one evening, we must break from some of our modern habits. The core of the seder is retelling the story of the Exodus from Egypt, and Moses led the Jewish people to the Promised Land without using a GPS-enabled smartphone. (Never mind the fact it took him 40 years.…)