21St Century Plagues

The ten symbolic plagues of the 21st century

Blood for victims of terror and war

Frogs for the damage being caused to the environment

Lice for the inequality between rich and poor

Wild animals for the abuse of animals

Diseased livestock: for hunger and food insecurity in Africa

Boils for Aids still too prevalent in the developing world

Thunderstorm of hail and fire for victims of natural disasters

. Locusts for people without statehood

. Darkness: for the Unrecognized Bedouin villages

. Death of firstborn: for child mortality around the world

haggadah Section: -- Ten Plagues

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Introduction

On This Night

by JewBelong

On this night we retrace our steps from then to now, reclaiming years of desert wandering. On this night we ask questions, ancient and new, speaking of servitude and liberation, service and joy. On this night we welcome each soul, sharing stories of courage, strength, and faith. On this night we open doors long closed, lifting our voices in songs of praise. On this night we renew ancient hopes and dream of a future redeemed. On this night we gather around...

Yachatz

by Mordechai Smith

YACHATZ Is matzo poor man's bread or the food of free men? Can it be both? If we regard it as the Bread of Affliction why did we carry dough on our backs out of Egypt, to let it bake in the hot sun without leavening and rising? Can one Matzo be both a symbol of wretchedness and deliverance? Matzo is a paradox. Not only is it so, but in breaking the middle matzo we also break with symmetry. There is...

Maggid - Beginning

Let All Who Are Hungry

by Haggadot

Introduction

Afikoman

by Will Deutsch

Bareich

Bendigamos al Altísimo

by Congregation Etz Chayim

Bendigamos Bendigamos al Altísimo, Al Señor que nos creó, Démosle agradecimiento Por los bienes que nos dió. Let us bless the One Most High, The God who created us, Let us give thanks For the good things which God has given us. Bendigamos al Altísimo, Por el pan primeramente, Y por todos los manjares, Que cumimos juntamente. Pues cumimos y bebimos alegremente, Su merced nunca nos faltó, Let us bless the Most High, First for the bread and then for all...

-- Four Questions

Four Questions: Human Trafficking

by Aviel Dardashti

(1) How big of a problem is this? According to the U.S. department of state, there are over 12 million slaves around the world. (2) What is being done about the problem? The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services assists victims of trafficking in the United States by funding service programs and through public information campaigns. (3) Why isn't more being done? Money doesn't grow on trees (and politics). (4) What can you do to help? Go to this government...

-- Four Questions

Ask your neighbor

by Craig Minoff

Select ONE question from the list below and ask your neighbor: For what in your life do you feel most grateful? If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be? What do you value most in a friendship?

Nirtzah

Tefilat Ha'Derech - Traveler's Prayer for the Road Ahead

by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

by Miriam Grossman May it be your will Our God and God of our ancestors that you lead us in peace and direct our steps (our marching, Rebellious, organized, queer dance-partying, prayerful steps) in peace and guide us in peace and support us in just peace (and in the tearing down of walls, and in the rising up of peoples), and cause us to reach our destination in life and joy and peace (all of us together, no one left behind)....

Cover

End of the Seder

by Haggadot

Introduction

Lighting the Candles

by Linda Schneider

The seder officially begins with a physical act: lighting the candles. In Jewish tradition, lighting candles and saying a blessing over them marks a time of transition, from the day that is ending to the one that is beginning, from ordinary time to sacred time. Lighting the candles is an important part of our Passover celebration because their flickering light reminds us of the importance of keeping the fragile flame of freedom alive in the world. Baruch Atah Adonai Eloheinu melech...

-- Four Children

GBM Four Children Art Contest

by Milken School Global Beit Midrash

Commentary / Readings

Monty Python Haggadah

by Sue Kayton

Scene 1: In the Desert Moses is galloping (skipping on foot while clopping coconuts together to sound like hoofbeats) across the desert. He comes to a burning bush. Bush: Halt! Who goes there! Moses: A shrubbery! A talking shrubbery! One that looks nice, but is not too expensive. It is a good shrubbery. I like the laurels particularly. Bush: Moses! Moses, Leader of the Israelites! (Moses looks stunned, drops to his knees in awe and bows his head to the ground...

-- Four Children

The Four Children

by Progressive Jewish Alliance

At Passover, we are confronted with the stories of our ancestors’ pursuit of liberation from oppression. Facing this mirror of history, how do we answer their challenge? How do we answer our children when they ask us how to pursue justice in our time? What does the Activist Child ask? “The Torah tells me, ‘Justice, justice shall you pursue,’ but how can I pursue justice?” Empower him always to seek pathways to advocate for the vulnerable. As Proverbs teaches, “Speak up...

Maggid - Beginning

Hannah Szenes Quote

by Haggadot

Yachatz

What we want and what we need

by Gavriel Goldfeder

By Rabbi Gavriel Goldfeder www.alternadox.netWe all know that we cannot rely on the holiness of our desires all the time. Tonight is special, different. Tonight it is safe to let go. But in a week or a month, who knows? By breaking the middle matzah , we acknowledge that we are still split. We still cannot ultimately trust that our desires and our necessities, our concerns and our impulses, our inner child and our responsible adult, have become one. There is...

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-- Exodus Story

more history

by Abigail Hurwitz

-- Exodus Story

The story of our activities ancestors

by Abigail Hurwitz

Nirtzah

end of seder tea

by Abigail Hurwitz

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