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Let my People Go
Let my People GoLouis Armstrong Go down mosesWay down in egypt landTell all pharaoes toLet my people go! When israel was in egypt land...Let my people go!Oppressed so hard they could not stand...Let my people go! So ...-- Exodus Storycontributed by Ezra Match -
Reflection on Maror
When we eat the maror, it makes our eyes water. Its bitterness turns our faces red. We lose control for a moment, and laugh because it's freeing. We cannot keep up appearances while eating maror, and so we don't try to.Our sinuses ...Marorcontributed by Ezra Match -
If Violence is Wrong in Americ
"If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong f ...-- Exodus Storycontributed by Ezra Match -
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 ...Hallelcontributed by Richard Schwartz -
Get Up, Stand Up
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!Get up, stand up: don’t give up the fight!Preacherman, don’t tell me,Heaven is under the ea ...Songscontributed by love fest -
Matzo Ball Soup
At this time, for our Shulchan Oreich we will start off with a big bowl of scrumptious soup. We will continue on with the rest of the Seder before we enjoy the other delicous foods prepared for this Pesach dinner.Shulchan Oreichcontributed by Bradley Deal -
Four More Questions
A) Some of the questions people are really asking as they participate in a seder: 1. How many more hours until we eat? 2. Why on this night do some of us traditionally eat balls of reconstituted fish parts? 3. Will G-d strike ...Covercontributed by Alan Scher -
Four Cups of Wine
Tonight we drink four cups of wine. Why four? Some say the cups represent ourmatriarchs—Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah—whose virtue caused God to liberate usfrom slavery. Another interpretation is that the cups represent the ...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 Four Questions
The Four QuestionsThe telling of the story of Passover is framed as a discussion with lots of questions and answers. It’s tradition that the youngest person in the family asks the questions. The rabbis who created the set format ...-- Four Questionscontributed by Stephanie Kravatz -
Candle Blessing
Usually on Pesach one first recites the blessings and then lights the candles without covering one’s eyes.May these candles, lit on the Festival of Freedom, bring light into our hearts and minds. May they renew our courage to ac ...Kadeshcontributed by Stephanie Kravatz -
Seder meal
Now it is time for our Seder meal. B'tayavon, Good ApetiteShulchan Oreichcontributed by Stephanie Kravatz -
Towards Freedom
Martin Luther King, Jr. "Towards Freedom" delivered at Dartmouth College, 1962Excerpt:"This problem will not be solved until enough people all over our country come to see that it is morally wrong to practice racial segregation an ...-- Exodus Storycontributed by Isaac Skromne -
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
