Matzah of Peace
During the Civil War, Myer Levy was a Union soldier who found himself patrolling a Virginia town on Pesach. As he turned up a street in this hostile territory, he spied a little boy sitting outside, eating a piece of matzah. At last, a fellow Jew! When he jovially asked him for a piece, the child fled indoors screaming, "Mama, come quick! There's a damn Yankee Jew here!" The child's mother raced outside - and promptly invited the soldier to join their Seder. |
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