{"id":34557,"date":"2020-04-03T03:43:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T10:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=34557"},"modified":"2020-04-02T11:47:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T18:47:49","slug":"about-the-passover-cover-art-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2020\/04\/03\/about-the-passover-cover-art-3\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Passover cover art"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I always do in anticipation of needing an image for the Jewish Independent\u2019s Passover issue, I started with an internet search. This Passover, I was led to creativejewishmom.com<\/a>, which features creative projects parents can do with their kids. The Crossing the Red Sea Kid\u2019s Craft captured my imagination. Not one to let the lack of children in my immediate vicinity stop me, I collected the materials necessary and learned to use a glue gun. Through the generosity of a few friends, I didn\u2019t have to buy anything to make the diorama on this issue\u2019s cover.<\/p>\n

To capture the notion that, in every generation, we are to regard ourselves as if we personally left Egypt, I created a variety of Israelites, from Moses, Miriam and Aaron leading the group, to a Middle Eastern family from an indeterminate era to a 1920s dandy, a Mary Poppins-inspired woman in a fancy black hat and a Chassid. A teen wears headphones, a toddler wears a mouse-ear raincoat and a girl in a wheelchair negotiates the streambed with the help of a Beatnik.<\/p>\n