Passover is called Zman Cheruteinu, Time of our Freedom. This year, it is challenging to embrace & celebrate our freedom when there are still hostages in captivity. As you prepare for your sedarim, we share resources from Maharat students & graduates that offer meaning & reflection:
A prayer and poem for the hostages by Adina Roth '24 titled “The Fifth Child” (below)
In January 2023, the Reconstructionist Movement completed a multi-year process of passing a movement-wide resolution on reparations. To support the commitments of the resolution, the Tikkun Olam Commission is creating a new series of supplements to the Passover Haggadah that can be helpful entry points to the reckoning and reflection work of reparations at your Passover Seder.
The first supplement, available for the first time this year, lifts up contemporary Passover commentary from Jews of Color, who have been historically left off the pages of most modern Haggadot. You can find a version below that works with A Night of Questions and one that is generic to supplement any Haggadah.
Inside 10 new haggadahs for 2024: America and Israel take their places at the seder table
BY Philissa Cramer / Penny Schwartz
"...But the haggadah marketplace goes far beyond the current moment, and not all of the new entrants to the seder scene this year are so serious: There are also parody haggadahs inspired by Star Wars and the Jewish filmmaker and comedian Mel Brooks, as well as two new books designed for families with young children and new efforts from longtime suppliers of Jewish ritual texts..."
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The holiday of Pesakh/Passover is called Zeman Heruteinu—the Season of Our Liberation. We remember and re-enact the Exodus from Egyptian slavery, and we are prompted to rededicate ourselves to working for the liberation of all people today and for our own liberation from the personal constraints we each face. We offer three new approaches to this process, and have collected past Evolve essays about Pesakh by: