{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "matzah", "title": "Matzah", "author": "Will Deutsch", "author_handle": "will-deutsch", "author_initials": "WD", "covertext": "It's lunchtime. Matzah, gefilte fish, and Leben.  Again. Immediately you feel a pair of eyes. Between bites of his footl...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104219/conversions/Will-Deutsch-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104219/Will-Deutsch.png", "body": "<p><span>I<span>t's lunchtime.</span></span></p>\n<p><span>Matzah, gefilte fish, and Leben. </span></p>\n<p><span>Again.</span></p>\n<p><span>Immediately you feel a pair of eyes.</span></p>\n<p><span>Between bites of his footlong turkey on jalapeno cheddar, your co worker inquires:</span></p>\n<p><span>'What is that?'</span></p>\n<p><span>'It's fish….sort of….'</span></p>\n<p><span>'No! No! that white cracker thing….'</span></p>\n<p><span>You break off a small piece without hesitation and hand it over.</span></p>\n<p><span>He chews it slowly.</span></p>\n<p><span>He lights up.</span></p>\n<p><span>'Hey! That stuff isn't bad!!!'</span></p>\n<p><span>Try eating it for eight days, you think.</span></p>\n", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "www.notesfromthetribe.com ", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Greatest Hits Haggadah", "slug": "greatest-hits-haggadah", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/7382/willdeutschmatzahpassover_0.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/7382/conversions/willdeutschmatzahpassover_0-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Introduction", "slug": "introduction" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 387, "tags": [ { "tag": "Comedy", "slug": "comedy" }, { "tag": "Food", "slug": "food" } ], "themes": [ { "theme": "Comedy", "slug": "comedy" }, { "theme": "Food", "slug": "food" } ], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Matzah | Passover haggadah by Will Deutsch", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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There's always someone younger, cuter, just waiting to take your place.  And quite literally, with a baby sister who was turning five, I was getting too old for it.</span></p>\n<p><span>I haven't sung that song in 16 years. So this year, I created a new set of questions that have been on my mind:</span></p>\n\n<p><span>1. If the purpose of engaging the children during the seder is to fulfill the duty of passing the story down, wouldn't it make more sense just to plop them in front of a television and pop in \"The Prince of Egypt?\" The story itself is far less convoluted than the one in the Haggadah.  Not to mention the fact that it is told through a medium targeted at children, complete with modern animation and an award winning sound track. I'm an adult and still have trouble wrapping my head around the part about the five rabbis and difference between anger, wrath, indignation, trouble and messengers of evil. </span></p>\n\n<p><span>2. I know that it's not particularly Jewish, but being as it is probably the most famous seder, I can't help but wonder: who sang the Ma Nishtanah at the last supper (I would assume it was John as he was the youngest disciple)? Furthermore did they have an afikoman? And if everyone present was eating matzah why are they never depicted with crumbs all over their robes? 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But, when combined with salt, schmaltz, and chicken broth, becomes a delicious comfort food served by Jewish bubbys year round?</p>\n\n<p></p>\n", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "www.notesfromthetribe.com", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Our Favorites For Families", "slug": "our-favorites-families", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/7384/matzahballsoupwilldeutsch_0.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/7384/conversions/matzahballsoupwilldeutsch_0-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Shulchan Oreich", "slug": "shulchan-oreich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 451, "tags": [ { "tag": "Food", "slug": "food" }, { "tag": "Comedy", "slug": "comedy" }, { "tag": "Shulchan Oreich", "slug": "shulchan-oreich" } ], "themes": [ { "theme": "Food", "slug": "food" }, { "theme": "Comedy", "slug": "comedy" } ], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Matzah Ball Soup | Passover haggadah by Will Deutsch", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Though, instead of using tactics like rearranging furniture and emotional outbursts to get rid of McConaughey, in my film she will employ the wrath of God by sending plague upon plague until eventually all the first-born of Egypt are slain.  Of course, this will result in a third act denouement, in which pharaoh will release Moses and the Jewish people only to realize what he's lost and send his forces to get them back.  This is where my film and its inspiration differ.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>In the original, Matt races down the Manhattan Bridge on a motorcycle during a you're-going-to-leave-town-forever-unless-I-can-stop-you scene where he confesses his love to Kate and the two embrace as the credits roll.  My vision is to have a large CGI sequence in which Hudson calls upon Hashem to part the Red Sea and destroy the impending Egyptian army.  Don't get me wrong, I do have an 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' attitude about my work, which is why I’ll preserve sentiment of the film.  Essentially, both are stories about a relationship of utility that, once severed, reveal release and the seemingly magical triumph of choice and action. But, I want James Cameron to direct mine.  Oh, and I want the whole thing to be in 3-D.</span></p>\n<p><span> </span></p>\n<p><span> </span></p>", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "www.notesfromthetribe.com ", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Comedy Seder", "slug": "comedy-seder", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/7385/exodusfromegypt_0.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/7385/conversions/exodusfromegypt_0-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Maggid - Beginning", "slug": "maggid-beginning" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 378, "tags": [ { "tag": "Entertainment", "slug": "entertainment" }, { "tag": "Comedy", "slug": "comedy" }, { "tag": "Maggid", "slug": "maggid" } ], "themes": [ { "theme": "Entertainment", "slug": "entertainment" }, { "theme": "Comedy", "slug": "comedy" } ], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Moses, Aaron, and Pharaoh | Passover haggadah by Will Deutsch", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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