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‘Matzah Moon’

Painting by Mark Podwal

Mark Podwal Passover
“Matzah Moon,” 2004, by Mark Podwal. Cover image for an edition of Elie Wiesel’s “A Passover Haggadah.” Credit: Mark Podwal.
Mark Podwal is an artist in New York. He has illustrated many of the books of his friend Elie Wiesel, and his work can be found in major museums, Jewish and non-Jewish, worldwide.
Mark Podwal Passover
“Matzah Moon,” 2004, by Mark Podwal. Cover image for an edition of Elie Wiesel’s “A Passover Haggadah.” Credit: Courtesy of Mark Podwal.

Mark Podwal’s 2004 painting “Matzah Moon,” which was the cover image for an edition of Elie Wiesel’s “A Passover Haggadah.”

The Israeli premier invoked Passover’s Ten Plagues, citing “ten blows” against Iran and “ten achievements,” including Israel’s unprecedented coordination with the United States.
One girl was severely injured in the four volleys that targeted the country’s most populated area hours before a major holiday.
The New York City mayor, who is a harsh and frequent critic of Israel, also wove his plans on affordability and to fight U.S. immigration policy into his telling of the holiday story.
The defense minister said residents of Southern Lebanon would be barred from returning “until the safety and security of northern Israeli residents is ensured.”
Limor Son Har-Melech, who introduced the bill and whose husband was murdered in a 2003 terror attack, stated that the “historic law” means “whoever chooses to murder Jews because they are Jews forfeits their right to live.”
The Jewish Electorate Institute poll largely conforms with surveys of the general U.S. public, which have found that most Americans oppose the war against Iran, with sharp partisan divisions between Republicans and Democrats.