Why Is This Passover Seder Different From All Other Passover Seders?
March 10, 2023
Judaism needs to be disrupted to respond to our radically changed world.
Judaism needs to be disrupted to respond to our radically changed world.
During most of Jewish history, Passover has been seen as a tale of Jewish oppression and Jewish liberation. Since the Freedom Seder in 1969, many Jews have treated Passover as an opportunity to face social injustice and liberation more broadly in other contexts: racism, oppression of immigrants, or workers, or
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Rethink what exactly you may be doing when you invoke Black trauma, and the art created in response to it, as part of your Passover celebrations.
Abolition is more than the ending of legalized enslavement. It is a dismantling of institutionalized systems of oppression that enslave, imprison and devalue lives deemed expendable.
Jewish rituals can be revitalized and transformed by activism as uplifting and effective vessels of social transformation.
The Torah doesn’t steer people away from slavery; it merely regulates the “lawful” treatment of human property.
Enrich Your Passover Experience Explore a variety of ways to understand Pesakh and to immerse in its practices. We have curated a series of essays that open discussions and analyses of Passover by Erica Riddick, Rabbi Margie Jacobs, Rabbi Mychal Copeland, Max Buckler, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Rabbi Michael Strassfeld, Rabbi
Most Americans have reacted with horror to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There are many reasons why it has affected so many of us in the Jewish community so powerfully. Many American Jews have ancestors from Ukraine, and some still have relatives there. We remember the historic hostility of Ukrainians
“Rabbi Elazar son of Azaria said: Here, I might as well be seventy years old, and still, I could not persuade others to tell the tale of the Exodus during the nights, not until Ben Zoma illuminated it this way: As it is written, So that you remember the day
Resisting tyranny together does not mean that we agree about everything.
The Jewish community’s often uncomplex reactions to critiques of Israel have now been weaponized by the right to attack free speech and democracy in the United States.
It is a moment of tectonic shift in the ever-evolving expression and experience of Jewish life.
By its very nature, a covenant between individuals limits what each individual party can do.
Jewish leadership is reimagined not as a seat at the table but as avodah, a sacred offering of service.
The value of a community is how its existence serves and sanctifies within itself and beyond itself.
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