Today, Passover is used as an opportunity to reflect on the things that plague our world, to seek justice for the still-oppressed and even to bring together multi-faiths family and friends under the common banner of universal freedom. – “Passover 2011: The Unleavened Basics,” Huffington Post

Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness. – Moses Ibn Ezra

What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history? – Aẖad HaÊ¿am, 1902

If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness. – Ludwig Börne (1786–1837), The Eternal Jew