Passover has ended, and as every year, we spoke of freedom – of liberation from bondage, of a society taking responsibility for itself. Yet in Israel's public sphere, we operate by the opposite logic: not freedom, but habitual coercion; not choice, but quiet submission to increasingly stringent theocratic norms that few seriously examine.The signs are especially clear during the holiday, of course: hideous sheets covering every shelf bearing the forbidden scourge of hametz. The lenient will say,