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Pour Out Your Wrath - שפוך
As the seder comes to a close, not only do we recall the moment of the liberation from Egypt, but we also pray for redemption from our contemporary persecutors. &n ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Ittay Flescher -
Why is there no orange on our
Why is there no orange on our Seder plate? In the early 1980s, while speaking at Oberlin College Hillel, Susannah Heschel was introduced to an early feminist Hag ...Karpascontributed by e heimberg -
Four Allies, Four Questions fo
This insert was created by the Keshet Parent & Family Connection. We provide confidential support to other parents of LGBTQ Jewish children and family members. Learn more>&g ...Maggid - Beginningcontributed by Bonnie Rosenabum -
Ten Ways to Bring Human Rights
Ten Ways to Bring Human Rights to Your Seder1. Place a tomato on your seder plate in solidarity with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers,agricultural workers who are eradicating sla ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by TAMAR FOX -
Tomato on the Seder Plate
STANDING WITH FARMWORKERSSupporting Those Working to End Modern-Day SlaveryPART 1 Please read this towards the beginning of the seder.The seder begins: “Let all who are in need, come and share in the Passover meal.” In this ye ...Maggid - Beginningcontributed by TAMAR FOX -
Why we remember
Bell HooksIf I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t start with feminism. I would start with stripping down to what fundam ...Covercontributed by Ariela Rothstein -
The Memory of Pesach: A Tale o
By Rabbi Dr. Donniel HartmanOur rabbis teach that all Jews must see themselves as if they had come out of Egypt. The Exodus from Egypt is not a story of a distant past but a living ...-- Exodus Storycontributed by Shalom Hartman Institute -
Peace Train
Peace Trainby the artist born as Steven Katz (Kohen haTzadik!)Now I've been happy lately, thinking about the good things to come And I believe it could be, something good has begun Oh I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the w ...Introductioncontributed by shai cherry -
In Every Generation
There have been many suggestions as to Judaism's most fundamental concept. Here's my candidate: In each and every generation, each of us must see ourselves as if we left Mitzrayim.Rav Kook says each of us took somethin ...Koreichcontributed by shai cherry -
Aung San Suu Kyi
In 1988, shortly after returning to her home country of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi ...Covercontributed by Jonah Bernstein -
Four Freedoms
In 1941, shortly after the start of World War 2, President, Franklin D. Ro ...Maggid - Beginningcontributed by Jonah Bernstein -
Ask the Fifth Question
Early in the Seder we say, “All who are hungry, let them enter and eat.” We move ceremoniously through the Haggadah, reminding ourselves that we once were slaves in Egypt and explaining the meaning of each bite we eat. But mil ...-- Four Questionscontributed by MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger -
Matza
Just as we not to allow matza to become leavened and must eat it hurriedly, so we must not allow a mitzva to become leavened by delaying its observance once the opportunity presents itself to do it.--Rabbi Yoshia in the Mechi ...Covercontributed by shai cherry -
Maror
Maror comes from the hebrew word for bitter. The maror symbolizes the bitt ...Covercontributed by Sara Balsam -
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
