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Dead Head Seder & Live Concert | Monday April 10, 2023 5pm PDT

It’s a Deadhead Seder!   And Concert!
From much of the same crew that brought you the Seder In Place, and previously the Terrapin nation Seders!
Our Dead Head Seder is taking place today, Monday April10th, at 5pm Pacific time. 
The in-person event is sold out, but we are streaming.

And after the Afikomen a LIVE CONCERT (also streamed!) featuring Mookie Siegel, Mark Karan, Scott Law, Scott Guberman, Ezra Lipp, Jordan Feinstein, Jeannette Ferber and special guests!

No charge for the stream, just tune in at 5pm Pacific Time on www.facebook.com/deadheadland  and hopefully also on www.youtube.com/@deadheadland

If you would like to offer some support for the Musicians and for the stream on Deadheadland, please do, any amount helps and is appreciated!   
Virtual Ticket/Tip Jar: www.deadheadland.com/seder2023

Download a Seder Plate and Haggadah at www.deadheadland.com/sedergoodybag

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AM YISRAEL HIGH? You bet they are!

Check it out, a big exhibit about the history of Jews and Cannabis from ancient use to modern scientific discoveries about everyone’s favorite weed. OK, almost everyone! It opens tomorrow, in New York at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. This is their first public exhibit since the pandemic, and it will be there through December.

AM YISRAEL HIGH: THE STORY OF JEWS AND CANNABIS
Opening May 5, 2022
On view May – December 2022
https://yivo.org/Cannabis

Join the exhibit opening 
on May 5, 2022, 7:00pm ET,
in person and livestreamed on Zoom.

here is a rich history and long relationship between Jews and cannabis. References to this plant appear in the Bible, the Talmud, and numerous other Jewish texts. Numerous rabbis have considered it in their writings. Cannabis has been used by Jews in religious ritual and for medicinal purposes from ancient times until today. More recently, Jews have been at the forefront of scientific research and medical applications of cannabis.

https://yivo.org/Cannabis
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Also a very interesting article about the exhibit in The Gothamist:
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/menorah-bongs-talmudic-toking-secret-history-judaism-cannabis