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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 -
Occupy Passover
In the Occupy movement, on Wall Street most dramatically, some people grabbed hold of the concept and realities of imbalances of wealth and infused already present economic concerns with worries about the divisive nature of our ec ...Introductioncontributed by ruby rowan -
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 -
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 -
won't you celebrate with
won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on ...Nirtzahcontributed by Hila Ratzabi -
Adrienne Rich on freedom
Freedom. It isn’t once, to walk outunder the Milky Way, feeling the riversof light, the fields of dark—freedom is daily, prose-bound, routineremembering. Putting together, inch by inchthe starry worlds. From all the lost colle ...Nirtzahcontributed by Hila Ratzabi -
Adrienne Rich on the end of de
What would it mean to livein a city whose people were changingeach other’s despair into hope?You yourself must change it.What would it feel like to knowyour country was changing? ...Introductioncontributed by Hila Ratzabi -
Reeds on the Seder Table: A Mo
Three Insights from the Tale of a Young Egyptian WomanThis Passover, we suggest adding the story of a courageous woman to round out your seder – that of Bat Paro, the daughter of ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Adam Oded -
Voices
After reading Ha Lachma Anya – הא לחמא עניא, you canadd this reading about the past and present struggles for freedom: This year we are slaves, next year may we be free Let my son go free so that my descendants wi ...Maggid - Beginningcontributed by Hillary Gordon -
4 Problems
How is this night different from other nights? On other nights we are not obligated to ask the questions of what separates us from redemption. Tonight we are so obligated.1) Why are women not yet universally reco ...-- Four Questionscontributed by shai cherry -
An Orange on the Seder Plate
An Orange on the Seder Plate A modern-day custom in support of including marginalized Jews in mainstream Jewish life By Tamara Cohen One of the newer symbols to appear on many seder plates is the orange. This custom has been ...Introductioncontributed by Emily Arnold -
The Passover Symbols, The Oran
The Passover SymbolsWe have now told the story of Passover… but wait! We’re not quite done. There are still some symbols on our seder plate we haven’t talked about yet. Rabba ...-- Closingcontributed by Jewish Women's Archive -
Telling Our Story
Our story starts in ancient times, with Abraham, the first person to have the idea that maybe all those little statues his contemporaries worshiped as gods were just statues. The idea of one God, invisible and all-powerful, inspir ...-- Exodus Storycontributed by Jewish Women's Archive -
The Four Daughters
Around our tables sit four daughters.Wise DaughterThe Wise daughter understands that not everything is as it appears.She is the one who speaks up, confident that her opinion counts. She is the one who can take the tradition and ri ...-- Four Childrencontributed by Jewish Women's Archive -
Alternative Four Questions
Traditionally, we ask why this night is different from all other nights. This variation on the Four Questions challenges us to think about why some things have changed so little:1) Why is “JAP” still such a popular put-down?2) ...-- Four Questionscontributed by Jewish Women's Archive -
Ten Modern Plagues
The traditional Haggadah lists ten plagues that afflicted the Egyptians. We live in a very different world, but Passover is a good time to remember that, even after our liberation from slavery in Egypt, there are still many challe ...-- Ten Plaguescontributed by Jewish Women's Archive
