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BaShanah HaZeh - song
This page includes a video of Eliana Lights singing her "Ba Shanah HaZeh" song (and a pdf of the lyrics) focusing on the issue of child labor in the cocoa fields. She set it to the tune of Ba Shanah HaBa'ah "because of its h ...Songscontributed by Ilana Schatz -
Rabbis Organizing Rabbis Immig
Our formatting doesn't work very well here, but consider this a preview. For a well-formatted printable ritual, and for more information about Rabbis Organizing Rabbis, ...Maggid - Beginningcontributed by Miriam Farber -
Reform CA Immigration Seder Ri
Our formatting doesn't work very well here, but consider this a preview. For a well-formatted printable ritual, and for more information about Reform California, please ...Maggid - Beginningcontributed by Miriam Farber -
Fair Trade Dayenu song
This page contains a video of Talia Cooper singing her song, "Fair Trade Dayenu" to the traditional melody, and pdf of the lyrics for download. It addresses the issue of child labor in the cocoa fields and what each of ...-- Exodus Storycontributed by Ilana Schatz -
The Four Children…thinking a
At Passover, we are confronted with the story of our ancestor’s pursuit of liberation fromoppression. Facing this mirror of history, how do we answer our children when they ask u ...-- Four Childrencontributed by Isabel Frey -
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 -
Audre Lorde on oppression
I cannot afford the luxury of fighting one form of oppression only. I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the fronts upon wh ...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 -
Ask Big Questions: Are We Free
With Passover in mind, we invite you to read two very different answers to the question ARE WE FREE? and then discuss it with your friends and family. The first essay is by R ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Sheila Katz -
In Every Generation
Tonight we read, “in every generation each individual is obligated to see him/herself as though s/he went forth from Egypt.” While we are gathered around our seder table we experience the bitterness of slavery, the maror (bitt ...-- Closingcontributed by California Faith for Equality -
Joseph the Unrighteous
My article criticizing Joseph's ecnomic policies in Egypt-- Exodus Storycontributed by Berel Dov Lerner -
Chocolate, Child Labor and Fai
Includes several supplemental readings for the Haggadah, all focusing on the issue of trafficked and slave child labor in the cocoa fields of West Africa. Includes a reading ...Introductioncontributed by Ilana Schatz -
An Introduction To Our Seder
An Introduction To Our SederEach year, we gather with friends, family, and other members of our community to share the retelling of the story of Passover. We recall a dark time in history when the Jewish People were slaves, when w ...Introductioncontributed by Pamela Ryba
