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The Second Cup
A cup to our teachers: To those we have known and those whose work has inspired us, and made space for our lives. We are graeful to you who did and said things for the first time, who claimed and reclaimed our traditions, who forg ...Covercontributed by Alan Scher -
The Orange
In the early 1980s, the Hillel Foundation invited me to speak on a panel at Oberlin College. While on campus, I came across a Haggada that had been written by some Oberlin students to express feminist concerns. One ritual they dev ...Maggid - Beginningcontributed by Cody Greenes -
Miriam's Cup
Filling Miriam's Cup follows the second cup of wine, before washing the hands. Raise the empty goblet and say:Miriam's cup is filled with water, rather than wine. I invite women of all generations at our Seder table to fill ...-- Exodus Storycontributed by Cody Greenes -
The Ten Plagues - help us drea
Shekhinah, soften our hearts and the hearts of our enemies. Help us to dream new pathsto freedom, so that the next sea-opening is not also a drowning; so that our singing isnever a ...-- Ten Plaguescontributed by Kara Wentworth -
Fifth Question - freedom
…and 5.In addition to the Four Questions, tonight we ask ourselves a fifth:We are commanded to celebrate as if each one of us were personally liberated fromEgypt. In the next year, how do you hope to bring yourself closer to you ...-- Four Questionscontributed by Kara Wentworth -
An Orange on the Seder Plate
At the height of the Jewish feminist movement of the 1980s, inspired by the abundant new customs expressing women’s viewpoints and experiences, I started placing an orange on the Seder plate.At an early point in the Seder, when ...Introductioncontributed by Jon Klein -
Shortened Modernized Gender-Ne
BOLD = Leader Italics = Participant ...Hallelcontributed by S. Isaac Dowd
