Answering Tough Questions About Refugees

{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "answering-tough-questions-about-refugees", "title": "Answering Tough Questions About Refugees", "author": "HIAS", "author_handle": "rachelgrantmeyer127704", "author_initials": "HI", "covertext": "WHY SHOULD I CARE ABOUT THIS AS A JEW? The Jewish people has been a refugee people since biblical times. In the United S...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": "WHY SHOULD I CARE ABOUT THIS AS A JEW? The Jewish people has been a refugee people since biblical times. In the United States, we know the devastating consequences of turning away refugees. Less than a century ago, refugees fleeing the Holocaust were marked as security threats to the U.S., denied entry, and sent back to Europe to be brutally murdered. Furthermore, the value of welcoming, protecting, and loving the stranger appears in the Torah 36 times according to the Talmud – more than any other value.\n\nARE REFUGEES A SECURITY THREAT? Refugees complete extensive security and medical screenings more rigorous than those for any other entrant to America – involving 5 U.S. government agencies – before they step foot on American soil. No person admitted through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program has ever been implicated in a major fatal terrorist attack in the United States.\n\nWHY DOES THE UNITED STATES NEED TO WELCOME REFUGEES? CAN’T OTHER COUNTRIES DO IT? When the U.S. welcomes refugees, the rest of the nations of the world follow suit. Other countries are also doing their part. Millions of refugees first flee to and make a life in the countries closest to them. For example, Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey have all taken in millions of Syrian refugees.\n\nAREN’T REFUGEES A DRAIN ON OUR ECONOMY? WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR HELPING THEM? Refugees pay taxes, get jobs, and start businesses; they contribute much more to our economy than they take from it. According to one study, in Cleveland, local refugee services agencies spent about $4.8 million in 2012 to help refugees get established, but the boon to the economy generated by those refugees weighed in at about $48 million, roughly 10 times the initial resettlement costs.\n\nBUT AREN’T MANY OF THESE REFUGEES ANTI-SEMITIC? Many refugees arriving in the United States have never met Jews before. The welcome they receive from Jewish organizations, individuals, and congregations combats anti-Semitism that may exist, breaks down their assumptions, and helps them more quickly become part of the diverse fabric of this country. Additionally, all refugees resettled in the U.S. receive mandatory cultural orientation helping them embrace their new multi-faith, multi-ethnic nation. Finally, we should not be a people who withhold refuge based on religion.", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "HIAS", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Exodus Story", "slug": "exodus-story" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 289, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Answering Tough Questions About Refugees | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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These questions are meant to spark conversations that can happen throughout the seder. \n\nFirst Question\n\n Read this narrative aloud and then discuss the question below. \n\n“When I found out I got into the University, I immediately called my ‘real’ mom in Afghanistan, whom I haven’t seen since I was 14. My family, which belongs to the Hazaras, lived under the constant threat of the Taliban, until, one day the latter tried to run me over with a car. My parents feared for my life, and sent me to Iran. At first I was crying all the time. It hurt too much being on my own. When things got tougher there too, I headed to Europe.\n\nI was just 17 when I came once more close to dying, this time in my attempt to cross to Samos on a boat from Turkey, along with four more Afghans. I had never seen the sea before and although I knew how to swim, the waves terrified me. When the sea got really rough and the oars of the boat broke one after another, there was panic. I was rowing with all the strength I had in me. What kept me going was a 13-year-old boy who was constantly asking me ‘If I fall in the sea, will you save me?’ ‘As long as I am alive, you have nothing to fear’, I kept telling him. We are still good friends with this boy.\n\nI love Thessaloniki, the town where I live now, but if I could, I would return to Afghanistan without second thoughts. My country is beautiful, there are amazing landscapes, natural resources and high mountains. The only thing missing is peace...” —Hamid, age 25, from Afghanistan, now living in Greece \n\nThrough the Passover Seder, we reconnect with our biblical journey to liberation, and, yet, we retell the story now mindful of those who are not yet free—those whose futures are, therefore, bound up in our future. We recognize, as Hamid does in this powerful narrative, that the way we live has bearing on the lives of those who are not yet free. Why do you think we retell this story each year? With an eye to the struggles of our time, whose future do you feel is bound up in yours?\n\nSecond Question\n\nPut yourself back into the story of the Exodus: What do you remember from leaving Egypt? \n\nThird Question\n\nWhat do you think makes some people stay and continue to experience unimaginable trauma and others flee in search of refuge and asylum? Can you understand both decisions? \n\nFourth Question\n\nJust as we open the door for Elijah, to what or to whom do you want to open the door in your own life this year? What fears do you have about doing so? \n\n\n\n from the HIAS Seder Supplement \n<a href=\"http://www.hias.org/passover2016-supplement\">http://www.hias.org/passover2016-supplement</a>\n\nFor more information about how to become part of the Jewish response to the global refugee crisis, visit hias.org/helprefugees. \n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "HIAS Seder Supplement", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Four Questions", "slug": "four-questions" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 422, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Four Alternative Questions | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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During the Maggid, we say the words, “ (Arami oved avi). ” This phrase is sometimes translated as “My father was a wandering Aramean” and other times as “An Aramean sought to destroy my father.” Somewhere between the two translations lies the essence of the Jewish experience: a rootless people who have fled persecution time and time again.\n\nAt this point in the Seder walk with your guests to your front door and place a pair of shoes on your doorstep and read together:\n\n“As we recite the words ‘Arami oved avi,’ we acknowledge that we have stood in the shoes of the refugee. Today, as we celebrate our freedom, we commit ourselves to continuing to stand with contemporary refugees. In honor of this commitment, we place a pair of shoes on our doorstep of this home to acknowledge that none of us is free until all of us are free and to pledge to stand in support of welcoming those who do not yet have a place to call home.”\n\nInvite family and friends to join you by placing a pair of shoes on their doorstep as well. Encourage them this Passover to support welcoming the world’s refugees and stand up against the xenophobia and hatred being levied against these most vulnerable people. You might also direct them to the HIAS website for ways they can amplify their support.\n\n from the HIAS Seder Supplement \n<a href=\"http://www.hias.org/passover2016-supplement\">http://www.hias.org/passover2016-supplement</a>\n", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "HIAS Seder Supplement", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "A Haggadah for Justice ", "slug": "haggadah-justice", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/10893/HIAS-HAGGADOT.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/10893/conversions/HIAS-HAGGADOT-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Exodus Story", "slug": "exodus-story" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 382, "tags": [ { "tag": "Justice", "slug": "justice" }, { "tag": "Refugees", "slug": "refugees" } ], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Stand With Refugees This Passover | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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This is especially true for refugees.\n\nAfter you pour out a drop of wine for each of the ten plagues that Egypt suffered, we invite you to then pour out drops of wine for ten modern plagues afflicting refugee communities worldwide and in the United States. After you have finished reciting the plagues, choose a few of the expanded descriptions to read aloud.\n\n1. Violence\n2. Dangerous journeys\n3. Poverty\n4. Food insecurity\n5. Lack of access to education\n6. Xenophobia\n7. Anti-refugee legislation\n8. Language barriers\n9. Workforce discrimination\n10. Loss of family\n\nViolence\n\nMost refugees initially flee home because of violence that may include sexual and gender-based violence, abduction, or torture. The violence grows as the conflicts escalate. Unfortunately, many refugees become victims once again in their countries of first asylum. A 2013 study found that close to 80% of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) living in Kampala, Uganda had experienced sexual and gender-based violence either in the DRC or in Uganda.\n\nDangerous Journeys\n\nForced to flee their home due to violence and persecution, refugees may make the dangerous journey to safety on foot, by boat, in the back of crowded vans, or riding on the top of train cars. Over the last two years, the United States has seen record numbers of unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central America. Many of these children have survived unimaginably arduous journeys, surviving abduction, abuse, and rape. Erminia, age 15, came to the United States from El Salvador two years ago. As she walked through the Texas desert, her shoes fell apart and she spent three days and two nights walking in only her socks. “There were so many thorns,” she recalls, “and I had to walk without shoes. The entire desert.”\n\nLack of access to education \n\nThough the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees affirms that the right to education applies to refugees, a recent education assessment found that 80% of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon were not in school.4 Research shows that refugee children face far greater language barriers and experience more discrimination in school settings than the rest of the population. Muna, 17, a Syrian refugee living in Jordan, who dropped out of school, said, “We can’t get educated at the cost of our self-respect.”\n\nLoss of Family\n\nIt is not uncommon for refugees to lose multiple immediate family members in the violent conflicts that cause them to flee home. These losses, as well as the fact that they may become separated from their family members during flight, can have major consequences on the family structure. Paola7, a refugee living in Jaque, Panama8 explains, “Fifteen years ago, paramilitaries invaded my community in Jurado, Colombia. The group began to massacre the locals, forcing many of us to flee our lifelong homes. I escaped across the border to Panama. Before the massacre, I had five children. Two of them died in the violence, and I don’t know anything about the remaining three, who all left the community many years ago. I am now 62 years old. I have two young grandchildren for whom I am the sole caretaker and provider.”\n\nXenophobia\n\nJust as a 1939 poll from the American Institute of Public Opinion found that more than 60% of Americans opposed bringing Jewish refugees to the United States in the wake of World War II, today we still see heightened xenophobia against refugees. This fear can manifest through workplace discrimination, bias attacks against Muslim refugees, and anti-refugee legislation. In recent months, there has been a frightening surge in anti-refugee sentiment here in the United States, a trend we expect will grow in the months to come.\n\n from the HIAS Seder Supplement \n<a href=\"http://www.hias.org/passover2016-supplement\">http://www.hias.org/passover2016-supplement</a>\n", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "HIAS Seder Supplement", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "A Haggadah for Justice ", "slug": "haggadah-justice", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/10894/HIAS-Refugee-TenPlagues.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/10894/conversions/HIAS-Refugee-TenPlagues-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Ten Plagues", "slug": "ten-plagues" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 364, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Ten Plagues Facing Refugees in the U.S. and Worldwide | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/10894/conversions/HIAS-Refugee-TenPlagues-cover.jpg" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "introduction-224", "title": "Introduction", "author": "HIAS", "author_handle": "rachelgrantmeyer127704", "author_initials": "HI", "covertext": "As we celebrate the Jewish people’s biblical exodus from Egypt, we remember that there are 60 million displaced people a...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": "As we celebrate the Jewish people’s biblical exodus from Egypt, we remember that there are 60 million displaced people around the world, people fleeing violence and persecution in search of a safe place to call home. We are currently in the midst of the worst refugee crisis since World War II.\n\nHIAS, the world’s oldest, and only Jewish, refugee resettlement organization, helps refugees find ways to live in safety and with dignity as we also mobilize the Jewish community’s response to the global refugee crisis. This Passover, we hope you will find inspiration in weaving the story of the Jewish people’s exodus from Egypt together with the stories of today’s refugees as we offer words of blessing and hope and commit ourselves to acting on behalf of refugees worldwide in the days to come. \n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "HIAS Seder Supplement", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Introduction", "slug": "introduction" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 339, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Introduction | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "first-glass-wine-3", "title": "First Glass of Wine ", "author": "HIAS", "author_handle": "rachelgrantmeyer127704", "author_initials": "HI", "covertext": "As you bless the four cups of wine and remember the different ways God protected the Children of Israel during their exo...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": "As you bless the four cups of wine and remember the different ways God protected the Children of Israel during their exodus from Egypt, offer these words of blessing for the ways we can stand in support of today’s refugees as they journey to safety. This is the first of the blessings over the four cups of wine that we say throughout the Passover Seder. You will find the other three blessings interspersed throughout this supplement. \n\nI will free you... \n\nAs we remember our own liberation from bondage in Egypt, we express gratitude for the ability to work as God’s partners in continued and continual redemption for today’s refugees. As our wine cups overflow in this moment of joy, we hold out hope for the day when every person in search of refuge in every corner of the earth can recall a story of freedom, reflect on a journey to security from violence and persecution and no longer yearn for a safe place to call home. Blessed are You, Adonai our God, who frees those who are oppressed.\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן\n\nBaruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen. \n\nBlessed are You, Ruler of the Universe, who creates the fruit of the vine. \n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "HIAS Seder Supplement", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Kadesh", "slug": "kadesh" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 328, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "First Glass of Wine | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Just as we remember all of the times throughout history when the nations of the world shut their d...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": "I will deliver you...\n\nJust as we remember all of the times throughout history when the nations of the world shut their doors on Jews fleeing violence and persecution in their homelands, so, too, do we remember with gratitude the bravery of those who took us in during our times of need — the Ottoman Sultan who welcomed Spanish Jews escaping the Inquisition, Algerian Muslims who protected Jews during pogroms in the French Pied -Noir, and the righteous gentiles hiding Jews in their homes during World War II. In the midst of the current global refugee crisis, we aspire to stand on the right side of history as we ask our own government to take a leadership role in protecting the world’s most vulnerable refugees. May we find the bravery to open up our nation and our hearts to those who are in need. Blessed are You, Adonai our God, who delivers those in search of safety.\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן\n\n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen. \n\nBlessed are You, Ruler of the Universe, who creates the fruit of the vine.\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "HIAS Seder Supplement", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Cup #2 & Dayenu", "slug": "cup-2-amp-dayenu" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 375, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Second Glass of Wine | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/second-glass-wine-6", "og:title": "Second Glass of Wine | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "third-glass-wine-0", "title": "Third Glass of Wine ", "author": "HIAS", "author_handle": "rachelgrantmeyer127704", "author_initials": "HI", "covertext": "I will redeem you... ... Emboldened to welcome refugees into our communities, may we remember that true welcome is not c...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": "I will redeem you... ...\n\nEmboldened to welcome refugees into our communities, may we remember that true welcome is not completed upon a person’s safe arrival in our country but in all the ways we help people to rebuild their lives. As God provided for our needs on the long journey from slavery to the Promised Land, let us give the refugees in our communities the tools they need not just to survive but to thrive: safe homes to settle into, quality education for their children, English language tutoring, access to jobs, and all of the things we would want for ourselves and our families. Blessed are You, Adonai our God, who gives us the opportunity to be your partner in ongoing redemption.\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן\n\nBaruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen. \n\nBlessed are You, Ruler of the Universe, who creates the fruit of the vine. \n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "HIAS Seder Supplement", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Bareich", "slug": "bareich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 300, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Third Glass of Wine | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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We delight in our liberation from Pharaoh’s oppression.\n\nWe drink four cups for four promises fulfilled.\n\nThe first cup as God said, “I will free you from the labors of the Egyptians.”\n\nThe second as God said, “And I will deliver you from their bondage.”\n\nThe third as God said, “I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.”\n\nThe fourth because God said, “I will take you to be My People.”\n\nWe know, though, that all are not yet free. As we welcome Elijah the Prophet into our homes, we offer a fifth cup, a cup not yet consumed.\n\nA fifth cup for the 60 million refugees and displaced people around the world still waiting to be free— from the refugee camps in Chad to the cities and towns of Ukraine, for the Syrian refugees still waiting to be delivered from the hands of tyrants, for the thousands of asylum seekers in the United States still waiting in detention for redemption to come, for all those who yearn to be taken in not as strangers but as fellow human beings.\n\nThis Passover, let us walk in the footsteps of the One who delivered us from bondage. 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When we rise up from our Seder tables, let us commit ourselves to stamping out xe...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": "I will take you to be my people... ...\n\nWhen we rise up from our Seder tables, let us commit ourselves to stamping out xenophobia and hatred in every place that it persists. Echoing God’s words when God said, “I take you to be my people,” let us say to those who seek safety in our midst, “we take you to be our people.” May we see past difference and dividing lines and remember, instead, that we were all created b’tzelem Elohim, in the image of God. May we see welcoming the stranger at our doorstep not as a danger but as an opportunity – to provide safe harbor to those seeking refuge from oppression and tyranny, to enrich the fabric of our country and to live out our Jewish values in action. Blessed are You, Adonai Our God, who has created us all in Your image.\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן\n\nBaruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen. \n\nBlessed are You, Ruler of the Universe, who creates the fruit of the vine. \n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "HIAS Seder Supplement", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Nirtzah", "slug": "nirtzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 322, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Fourth Glass of Wine | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "introduction-402", "title": "Introduction", "author": "HIAS", "author_handle": "rachelgrantmeyer127704", "author_initials": "HI", "covertext": "Throughout our history, violence and persecution have driven the Jewish people to wander in search of a safe place to ca...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": "Throughout our history, violence and persecution have driven the Jewish people to wander in search of a safe place to call home. We are a refugee people. At the Passover Seder, we gather to retell the story of our original wandering and the freedom we found. But we do not just retell the story. We are commanded to imagine ourselves as though we, personally, went forth from Egypt – to imagine the experience of being victimized because of who we are, of being enslaved, and of being freed.\n\nAs we step into this historical experience, we cannot help but draw to mind the 65 million displaced people and refugees around the world today fleeing violence and persecution, searching for protection. Like our ancestors, today’s refugees experience displacement, uncertainty, lack of resources, and the complete disruption of their lives.\n\nOver the past year, we have read almost daily about humanitarian crises, watched xenophobic hate crimes increase, and been overwhelmed by the sheer number of people being persecuted. In the United States, in particular, we have experienced a devastating closing of doors to refugees. We now have the opportunity this evening to move beyond the headlines and the statistics to focus on the individual experiences behind the numbers and policies. These are the experiences of refugees around the world who, like the ancient Israelites, are finding liberation amidst brokenness and rebuilding their lives. Tonight, as we embrace the experience of our ancestors, we also lift up the experiences of the world’s refugees who still wander in search of safety and freedom.", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "https://www.hias.org/passover2017", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Introduction", "slug": "introduction" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 421, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Introduction | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Wrap the larger piece, the Afikoman, in a napkin to be hidden later. As you hold up the remaining smaller piece, read these words together: \n\nWe now hold up this broken matzah, which so clearly can never be repaired. We eat the smaller part while the larger half remains out of sight and out of reach for now. We begin by eating this bread of affliction and, then, only after we have relived the journey through slavery and the exodus from Egypt, do we eat the Afikoman, the bread of our liberation. We see that liberation can come from imperfection and fragmentation. 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The Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan, one of the world’s most populous refugee camps, consists of endless rows of beige tents and caravans with almost no plant or animal life.\n\nDust storms, heat, and blindingly bright sunlight make life unbearable for the more than 100,000 primarily Syrian residents. Without much structured activity or access to education, the thousands of children in these camps sit listlessly.\n\nInitiatives like the Za’atari Project and the Castle Art Project are changing this bleak reality. Through these projects, children paint vividly colored murals on the walls of their temporary homes. They begin to work through the trauma they have experienced and to articulate and depict their dreams in technicolor. These projects create a sense of camaraderie and community amongst the participants and even provide a venue for the volunteers who run them to provide informal classes on water conservation, camp hygiene, and conflict resolution, in addition to artistic techniques.", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "www.hias.org/passover2017", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "HIAS Haggadah 2021", "slug": "hias-haggadah-2021", "author": "HIAS" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Yachatz", "slug": "yachatz" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 354, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Art & Education Bloom in the Desert | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/art-education-bloom-desert", "og:title": "Art & Education Bloom in the Desert | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "overcoming-language-barriers", "title": "Overcoming Language Barriers", "author": "HIAS", "author_handle": "rachelgrantmeyer127704", "author_initials": "HI", "covertext": "Many refugees find themselves in multiple countries before they find a permanent place to begin rebuilding their lives....", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": "Many refugees find themselves in multiple countries before they find a permanent place to begin rebuilding their lives. If they do not speak the language in those countries, refugees face even greater challenges finding employment, and everyday tasks like filling out forms or trying to purchase food can feel nearly impossible.\n\nChildren confront language barriers in school. The language of instruction may be the language of the child’s host country – the country to which s/he flees – or it may be the language of their original homeland. This can differ from country to country. One refugee child followed by the Migration Policy Institute experienced a Tanzanian curriculum in English and Swahili during primary school, a Burundian curriculum officially in French and Kirundi but taught in English and Kiswahili during the beginning of secondary school, and a Congolese curriculum taught in French at the end of secondary school.\n\nThis exposure to multiple languages ultimately can lead to the academic mastery of none. \n\nDespite these obstacles, many refugees are beating the odds. In the Harran and Akcakale camps near the border of Syria, 70-year-old women are teaching themselves how to read and thereby inspiring the younger women in the camp to learn new skills in order to sustain themselves. \n\nAdam Sakhr, a Sudanese refugee who faced execution due to his political and religious views, used the difficulties he experienced when he first arrived in France to create an app called Nowall. 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According to asylum experts, “the right [to work] has been recognized to be so essential to the realization of other rights that without the right to work, all other rights are meaningless.” Even with these legal protections, though, outside of the United States, “many of the world’s refugees, both recognized and unrecognized, are effectively barred from accessing safe and lawful employment.” Despite these challenges, refugees are finding innovative ways to sustain themselves. Paola, a 64 year-old refugee from Jurado, Colombia now living in Jaqué, Panama, started a small business selling tamales with a local Panamanian woman. However, she found that it was di cult to survive and support herself and her grandchildren on the income from tamale-making alone. When she heard about HIAS’ livelihood initiatives to help local refugees learn new sustainable jobs, she submitted a proposal to build a chicken coop and received a grant to seed a successful small chicken farm. 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Souvenirs from our most recent vacation. Shabbat table linens crocheted by our relatives decades before our birth. Lavender and jasmine plants whose smell lets us know we are home. A well-seasoned cast-iron skillet passed down through generations. These objects create our homes and make us who we are not just through their presence in our lives but also through the stories they contain, the memories they conjure, and the comfort and familiarity they bring us. These possessions become part of us, part of the story of who we are in the world. When we walk in the front door of our home and look at the objects that surround us, we know that we are home, that we are rooted.\n\nWhat happens if those objects are taken away? What happens if we must decide quickly, in the dark of the night or without warning in the middle of the afternoon, what to fit in a single backpack as we leave home? This is the decision that those fleeing violence and persecution have faced since biblical times and that they still face today. Having left with only what they can carry, how will they continue to find comfort and familiarity? How will they feel a connection to their own memories without the possessions that link them to their histories and to their lives?\n\nOUR JEWISH ANCESTORS\n\n Leader continues reading aloud: \n\nWe do not know much about what our biblical ancestors took with them when they went forth from Egypt. The Haggadah tells us only that “they baked unleavened cakes of dough ( matzot ) since they had been driven from Egypt and could not delay, nor had they prepared provisions for themselves.”\n\nToday, we are commanded: “Remember the day on which you went forth from Egypt, from the house of bondage, and how God freed you with a mighty hand.” Imagine that you were there when our ancient Israelite ancestors left home with only unrisen bread. What else might you have brought with you? What comfort or memory would these objects bring you in your new homeland?\n\n After the leader reads the passage above, choose one of these two options: \n\nGo around the table and have participants offer their individual answers to the two questions above.\n\nBuild a “modern midrash” as a group. The rst participant begins by answering the questions above (what objects did the ancient Israelites bring and what comfort and memories did the objects hold). 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But would it have been...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": " Take turns reading aloud before Dayeinu: \n\n Dayeinu . It would have been enough. But would it have been enough? If God had only parted the sea but not allowed us to cross to safety, would it have been enough? If we had crossed to freedom and been sustained wandering through the wilderness but not received the wisdom of Torah to help guide us, would it have been enough?\n\nWhat is enough?\n\nAs we sing the traditional “ Dayeinu ” at the Passover Seder, we express appreciation even for incomplete blessings. We are reminded that, in the face of uncertainty, we can cultivate gratitude for life’s small miracles and we can find abundance amidst brokenness. Just as the story of our own people’s wandering teaches us these lessons time and time again, so, too, do the stories of today’s refugees. The meager possessions they bring with them as they flee reflect the reality of rebuilding a life from so very little.\n\nFor Um, the blessing of being alive in Jordan after escaping violence in Homs in the company of her husband with only the clothes on her back – Dayeinu : it would have been enough.\n\nFor Dowla, the wooden pole balanced on her shoulders, which she used to carry each of her six children when they were too tired to walk during the 10-day trip from Gabanit to South Sudan – Dayeinu : it would have been enough.\n\nFor Farhad, the photograph of his mother that he managed to hide under his clothes when smugglers told him to throw everything away as he escaped Afghanistan – Dayeinu : it would have been enough.\n\nFor Sajida, the necklace her best friend gave her to remember her childhood in Syria – Dayeinu : it would have been enough.\n\nFor Muhammed, scrolling through the list of numbers on his cell phone, his only connection to the people he has known his whole life – Dayeinu : it would have been enough.\n\nFor Magboola, the cooking pot that was small enough to carry but big enough to cook sorghum to feed herself and her three daughters on their journey to freedom – Dayeinu : it would have been enough.\n\nEven as we give thanks for these small miracles and incomplete blessings in the world as it is, we know that this is not enough. We dream of the world as it could be. We long for a world in which safe passage and meager possessions blossom into lives rebuilt with enough food on the table, adequate housing, and sustainable jobs. We fight for the right of all people fleeing violence and persecution to be warmly welcomed into the lands in which they seek safety, their strength honored and their vulnerability protected. 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(If it is your tradition to conclude your Seder when the meal is served, read this after you bless and drink the second cup of wine and just before the meal is served.)\n\nLeader: \n\nAt the beginning of the Passover Seder, we are commanded to consider ourselves as though we, too, had gone out from Egypt. At the end of the Seder (and once in the middle) – we say the words, “Next year in Jerusalem” to recognize that, just as redemption came for our ancestors, so, too, will redemption come for us in this generation. For those of us fortunate enough to have a roof over our heads, we may understand these words to mean that the parts of us that feel adrift will find steady footing. However, for the world’s 65 million displaced people and refugees, these words can be a literal message of hope that they will be able to rebuild their lives in a safe place.\n\nReader: \n\nAfter experiencing unimaginable trauma and often making harrowing journeys out of danger, refugees across the United States are finding liberation after oppression. For Mohammad Ay Toghlo and his wife, Eidah Al Suleiman, the dream of “Next year in Jerusalem” has become a reality in Buffalo, New York. After war came to their village outside Damascus, they witnessed the murder of their pregnant daughter and the kidnapping of their son. They sold their car to pay a large ransom and then ultimately escaped to Lebanon. After a lengthy vetting process, Mohammed, Eidah, and their youngest son, Najati, received word they would be resettled by HIAS through the Jewish Family Service of Buffalo. Mohammed says that, when he found out, he thought he was dreaming because “the United States is such a big thing for us that I don’t even see that in my dreams; I was so happy.” Najati is learning English and enrolled in school, and he says that, when he finds himself on the street on the way to school or to an appointment and he needs assistance, people go out of their way to communicate with him and help, even reading his body language to try to understand what he needs. While the family’s move is bittersweet because their oldest son, daughter-in- law, and grandchildren remain in Lebanon and they worry constantly about their safety, Najati says that, here, in the United States, “wherever we go, we nd helpful, loving people.” As he settles into his new life here, Najati made a drawing to express his gratitude for the opportunities that the Jewish Family Service of Buffalo and the United States government have provided him and his family. The drawing expresses thanks to the United States and features a large Jewish star, surrounded by the phrase “Thank you, Jewish Family” in Arabic. The family’s life in Buffalo is not free from di culty, but they are beginning to pick up the broken pieces of the trauma they have experienced to fulfill new hopes and new dreams here in America.\n\nGroup: \n\nAs we now end the Seder, let us pass around a 5th cup into which we will each pour a drop of wine as we express our prayers for the world’s refugees.\n\nPass an empty wine glass around the Seder table and have everyone add a drop of wine from their cup into this new cup. After everyone has added some wine to this 5th cup, read this blessing aloud together: \n\nTonight we honor the strength and resilience of refugees across the globe. We commit ourselves to ensuring that our country remains open to them, to supporting them as they rebuild their lives, and to championing their right for protection. Just as our own people now eat the bread of liberation, we pray that today’s refugees will fulfill their dreams of rebuilding their lives in safety and freedom in the year to come.\n\nBlessed are all those who yearn to be free.\nBlessed are we who commit ourselves to their freedom.\nBlessed are You, Adonai Our God, source of strength and liberation. \n", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "www.hias.org/passover2017", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/165189/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-6.35.12-PM.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/165189/conversions/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-6.35.12-PM-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Nirtzah", "slug": "nirtzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 358, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Next Year in Jerusalem | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Instructions and script at the link below.\n\nAsk your synagogue to join the hundreds of synagogues stepping up for refugees through HIAS’ Welcome Campaign at www.hias.org/hias-welcome-campaign. \n\nEducate yourself and others using HIAS’ FAQs, fact sheets, holiday resources, Jewish sources, and more on www.hias.org/resources. \n\nVolunteer locally with refugees in your community.\n\nDonate to support HIAS’ vital work helping refugees rebuild their lives in the U.S. and around the world. Visit hias.org/helprefugees for more information about all of these ways to help refugees. ", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "www.hias.org/passover2017", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/165190/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-6.34.50-PM.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/165190/conversions/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-6.34.50-PM-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Conclusion", "slug": "conclusion" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 357, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Call to Action for Refugees | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/call-action-refugees", "og:title": "Call to Action for Refugees | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/165190/conversions/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-6.34.50-PM-cover.jpg" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "how-talk-about-refugees-family-friends", "title": "How To Talk About Refugees With Family & Friends ", "author": "HIAS", "author_handle": "rachelgrantmeyer127704", "author_initials": "HI", "covertext": "Use this guide to talk to anyone in your life who is not yet part of the Jewish movement in support of refugees. Conside...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": "Use this guide to talk to anyone in your life who is not yet part of the Jewish movement in support of refugees. Consider reaching out to someone who has expressed concern about welcoming refugees to the United States or even someone who has made disparaging remarks.\n\nWe can be advocates for refugees not only through our political activism but also in our closest relationships. Take a few minutes to listen to another person’s perspective, provide basic facts about the global refugee crisis, address hate speech, and talk about the issue in a Jewish context. We hope that these conversations will prompt some people to take action or simply begin to view refugees differently.\n\nListen Fully \nIn addition to generating respect, listening fully will help the person you are speaking with remain more open. You’ll also come to understand why they feel the way they do and can follow up accordingly and find the places where they seem most open to change.\n\nBuild Empathy \nChallenge yourself to see things from the perspective of the person with whom you’re speaking. If they express fear, help them build empathy with refugees by telling the stories of contemporary refugees and the fears they face as they flee violence and persecution. You can find stories of today’s refugees on HIAS’ blog at <a href=\"http://www.hias.org/blog\">www.hias.org/blog</a>.\n\nDraw On Your History & Values \nWelcoming the stranger is both an American and Jewish value. The United States was founded to provide freedom and safety to the persecuted. Helping refugees sets an example for the nations of the world to follow. Welcoming the stranger is also a core Jewish value. Turn the page for more information about Jewish values and history to use in conversation.\n\nBring the Facts \nA lot of anti-refugee sentiment is based on lack of, or false, information. You can help correct misunderstandings about refugees with the information on the next page.", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "HIAS", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/165191/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-7.47.33-PM.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/165191/conversions/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-7.47.33-PM-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Exodus Story", "slug": "exodus-story" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 384, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "How To Talk About Refugees With Family & Friends | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/how-talk-about-refugees-family-friends", "og:title": "How To Talk About Refugees With Family & Friends | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/165191/conversions/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-7.47.33-PM-cover.jpg" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "introduction-442184", "title": "Introduction", "author": "HIAS", "author_handle": "rachelgrantmeyer127704", "author_initials": "HI", "covertext": "The Passover story is the Jewish people’s original story of becoming strangers in a strange land. It is the story that r...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": "The Passover story is the Jewish people’s original story of becoming strangers in a strange land. It is the story that reminds us that we, too, have stood in the shoes of refugees and asylum seekers in search of safety and liberty.\n\nWith more displaced people around the world than at any time in recorded history, the words of the Haggadah are more poignant and relevant than ever before. As we read these words, we are commanded to put ourselves back into the narrative, to consider ourselves as though we, too, went out from Egypt, from the narrow place. We do this so that we may rise up renewed in our commitment to stand together as a thriving American Jewish movement supporting today’s refugees and asylum seekers.\n\nOn Passover, we have the opportunity to remind ourselves why we do this work – to remind ourselves that this is our sacred obligation, amplified by our historic communal experience.\n\nAs we lift our voices in song and prayer, we call out together with those who long to be free. This year, there are still many who struggle towards liberation; next year, may we all be free.", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "HIAS Haggadah 2021", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "HIAS Haggadah 2021", "slug": "hias-haggadah-2021", "author": "HIAS" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Introduction", "slug": "introduction" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 420, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Introduction | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/introduction-442184", "og:title": "Introduction | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "kadesh-839", "title": "Kadesh", "author": "HIAS", "author_handle": "rachelgrantmeyer127704", "author_initials": "HI", "covertext": "Pour the first cup of wine and recite the blessing below as a group: V’hotzeiti etchem. .. I will free you... As we r...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": " Pour the first cup of wine and recite the blessing below as a group: \n\n V’hotzeiti etchem. .. I will free you...\n\nAs we remember our own liberation from bondage in Egypt, we express gratitude for the ability to work as God’s partners in continued and continual redemption for today’s refugees and asylum seekers. As our wine cups overflow in this moment of joy, we hold out hope for the day when every person in search of refuge in every corner of the earth can recall a story of freedom, reflect on a journey to security from violence and persecution, and no longer yearn for a safe place to call home. Blessed are You, Adonai our God, who frees those who are oppressed.\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן\n\n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen. \n\nWe praise God, Ruler of Everything, who creates the fruit of the vine.\n\n Drink the first cup of wine. 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After everyone has washed, if all are comfortable, join hands and, together, read the passage below. \n\nWe begin our Seder by washing our hands, preparing ourselves to reach back into the original refugee story of the Jewish people. As we consider our own history of escaping violence and persecution at the hands of a merciless tyrant, we also reach forward to those still in need of protection: the more than 68 million displaced people around the world today. In particular, we extend our hands in welcome to those who continue to seek asylum in our country, and we remember the danger of what happens when ordinary people do not stand up to those in seats of power. Now, we join hands to recognize that the work of welcome is the work of each of us and all of us and that we are strongest together.", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "HIAS Haggadah 2019", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "HIAS Haggadah 2021", "slug": "hias-haggadah-2021", "author": "HIAS" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Urchatz", "slug": "urchatz" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 424, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Urchatz | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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In celebration of our people’s freedom, tonight, we, too, start our meal by dipping green vegetables. However, we also remember that our freedom came after tremendous struggle. And, so, we dip our vegetables into salt water to recall the ominous waters that threatened to drown our Israelite ancestors as they fled persecution in Egypt, as well as the tears they shed on that harrowing journey to freedom.\n\nWe recognize that, today, there are more than 68 million people still making these treacherous journeys away from persecution and violence in their homelands. As we dip the karpas into salt water tonight, we bring to mind those who have risked and sometimes lost their lives in pursuit of safety and liberty.\n\nGroup: We dip for the Rohingya father who walked for six days to avoid military capture in his native Myanmar before he came to the Naf River and swam to Bangladesh.\n\nWe dip for the Syrian mother rescued from the dark waters of the Mediterranean Sea in the early hours of morning, still holding the lifeless body of her infant child after their small boat capsized.2\n\nWe dip for the Somali and Ethiopian refugees deliberately drowned when the smuggler who promised them freedom forced them into the Arabian Sea.\n\nLeader: We dip for these brave souls and for the thousands of other refugees and asylum seekers who have risked their lives in unsafe and unforgiving waters across the globe this past year.\n\nIt is a green vegetable that we dip tonight – a reminder of spring, hope, and the possibility of redemption even in the face of unimaginable difficulty. As we mourn those who have lost their lives in search of freedom, we remain hopeful that those who still wander will find refuge.\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הָאֲדָמָה\n\n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree ha-adama. \n\nWe praise God, Ruler of Everything, who creates the fruit of the earth.", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "HIAS Haggadah 2019", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "2019 Favorites", "slug": "2019-favorites", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/190333/Screen-Shot-2019-04-17-at-10.24.31-PM.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/190333/conversions/Screen-Shot-2019-04-17-at-10.24.31-PM-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Karpas", "slug": "karpas" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 445, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Karpas | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Group: Avadim hayinu l’Pharaoh...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": " The Magid – the story of the Israelites’ journey from slavery to freedom – now begins. \n\nGroup:\n\n Avadim hayinu l’Pharaoh b’Mitzrayim. \n\nWe were slaves to Pharoah in Egypt. \n\nAs we retell our story, we hold in our minds and inscribe on our hearts the stories of the millions of people across the globe who still yearn to be free.\n\n Pour the second cup of wine. \n\n- Ha Lachma Anyah - \n\n Ha lachma anyah di achalu av’hatanah v’ar’ah d’Mitzrayim. Kol dich’fin yay-tay v’yaichol, kol ditzrich yay-tay v’yifsach. Hashatah hacha, l’shanah ha’ba’ah b’ar’ah d’Yisrael. Hashatah avdei, l’shanah ha’ba’ah b’nei chorin. \n\nThis is the bread of affliction, the poor bread, that our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt. Let all who are hungry come and eat, all who are in need come and celebrate Passover with us. This year we are here; next year we will be in Israel. This year we are slaves; next year we will be free.\n\nParticipant: In fall 2015, with the Syrian refugee crisis making headlines on a daily basis, Melina Macall and Kate McCaffrey each reached out to their rabbi, Elliott Tepperman, to find out how the Jewish community in their New Jersey town was responding. He connected the two, and they teamed up to start the Syria Supper Club in an attempt to change the narrative around refugees. Their first program brought Syrian refugees and members of the local Jewish community together for the “traditional” Jewish version of Christmas dinner: Chinese food.\n\nThe two organizers then saw a chance to create a platform for breaking down stereotypes and building mutual understanding in the midst of an often toxic debate around refugees. With food and camaraderie as the common denominators, Macall and McCaffrey conceived of the supper club as a way to create additional pathways to increased independence for resettled refugees in their community who were just getting on their feet in a new country. They also wanted to encourage more people to seek out first-hand encounters with refugees beyond what they read in the news.\n\nThe duo began hosting dinners at which refugee cooks would prepare the meal for an assortment of guests. Proceeds go toward supporting the cooks and their families as they begin their new lives. More than 100 dinners later, they have dozens of cooks eager to participate, and the dinners often sell out several weeks in advance.\n\n“On the one hand, you can look at this and just say, ‘Hey, it’s just a dinner party,’” explains Macall. “And on the other hand, you can say, ‘You know what? It’s actually a radical act saying we have faith in humanity.’”\n\nGroup: Meeting face to face and breaking bread together blurs the distance between a perceived “us” and “them,” between “refugees” and “non-refugees.” May all find themselves welcome at this table, regardless of how long they have called this country home.", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "HIAS Haggadah 2019", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "HIAS Haggadah 2021", "slug": "hias-haggadah-2021", "author": "HIAS" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Maggid - Beginning", "slug": "maggid-beginning" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 427, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Magid | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "first-question-1", "title": "First Question", "author": "HIAS", "author_handle": "rachelgrantmeyer127704", "author_initials": "HI", "covertext": "Just like the Four Questions of the Passover Haggadah, which traditionally begin the Magid section of the Seder, this is...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": "Just like the Four Questions of the Passover Haggadah, which traditionally begin the Magid section of the Seder, this is the first of four alternative questions for discussion that you will find scattered throughout this Haggadah. These questions are meant to spark conversations that can happen throughout the Seder.\n\nParticipant: “When I found out I got into the University, I immediately called my ‘real’ mom in Afghanistan, whom I hadn’t seen since I was 14. My family, which belongs to the Hazaras, lived under the constant threat of the Taliban, until, one day the latter tried to run me over with a car. My parents feared for my life, and sent me to Iran. At first I was crying all the time. It hurt too much being on my own. When things got tougher there too, I headed to Europe.\n\nI was just 17 when I came once more close to dying, this time in my attempt to cross to Samos on a boat from Turkey, along with four more Afghans. I had never seen the sea before and although I knew how to swim, the waves terrified me. When the sea got really rough and the oars of the boat broke one after another, there was panic. I was rowing with all the strength I had in me. What kept me going was a 13-year-old boy who was constantly asking me ‘If I fall in the sea, will you save me?’ ‘As long as I am alive, you have nothing to fear,’ I kept telling him. We are still good friends with this boy.\n\nI love Thessaloniki, the town where I live now, but if I could, I would return to Afghanistan without second thoughts. My country is beautiful, there are amazing landscapes, natural resources and high mountains. The only thing missing is peace...”\n\n — Hamid, from Afghanistan, living in Greece in 201613 \n\nDiscuss as a group:\n\nThrough the Passover Seder, we reconnect with our biblical journey to liberation, and, yet, we retell the story now mindful of those who are not yet free – those whose futures are, therefore, bound up in our future. We recognize, as Hamid does in this powerful narrative, that the way we live has bearing on the lives of those who are not yet free. Why do you think we retell this story each year? With an eye to the struggles of our time, whose future do you feel is bound up in yours?", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "HIAS Haggadah 2019", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "HIAS Haggadah 2021", "slug": "hias-haggadah-2021", "author": "HIAS" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/190363/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.37.50-AM.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/190363/conversions/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.37.50-AM-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Four Questions", "slug": "four-questions" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 408, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "First Question | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/first-question-1", "og:title": "First Question | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/190363/conversions/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.37.50-AM-cover.jpg" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "four-children-2055", "title": "Four Children", "author": "HIAS", "author_handle": "rachelgrantmeyer127704", "author_initials": "HI", "covertext": "Below is a contemporary adaptation of the traditional Four Children from the Passover Haggadah. Read these words togethe...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": " Below is a contemporary adaptation of the traditional Four Children from the Passover Haggadah. Read these words together and then discuss the question that follows: \n\nThe one who ignores . . .\n\nShe turns off the news and closes the newspaper, speechless as she considers the magnitude of the problem. “68 million displaced people?” she wonders, “It couldn’t possibly be that many.”\n\nThe one who deflects . . .\n\nThey want to attend the rally for refugees and sign that petition, but they lost track of time with so many other pressing issues demanding their attention. “Someone else will take this one,” they console themselves, “I’ve got other priorities.”\n\nThe one who abandons . . .\n\nHe knows that Jewish values command him to welcome the stranger, but he cannot reconcile that with his worries about the economy and his fear of terrorism. “It’s not the same as when my grandparents came to this country,” he says.\n\nThe ones who understand . . .\n\nThey see that the Jewish refugee story never really ends; our role in the story shifts. Together, they take actions big and small. While they know they cannot complete the work, they do not desist from trying to make a difference. “We used to help refugees because they were Jewish,” they say, “But now we help refugees because we are Jewish.”\n\nDiscuss as a group:\n\nWhen we talk about the global refugee crisis, many of us may struggle to reconcile one or more of these voices within ourselves or we hear them in family members and friends. How do you respond to your own struggle when you think about taking action in support of refugees and asylum seekers? 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Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/four-children-2055", "og:title": "Four Children | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/190367/conversions/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.40.07-AM-cover.jpg" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "vehi-she-amda", "title": "Vehi She'Amda", "author": "HIAS", "author_handle": "rachelgrantmeyer127704", "author_initials": "HI", "covertext": "Lift second cup of wine. Leader: Vehi she’amda la’avoteinu v’lanu. She’lo echad bilvad amad aleinu l’chaloteinu, elah s...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": " Lift second cup of wine. \n\nLeader:\n\nVehi she’amda la’avoteinu v’lanu. She’lo echad bilvad amad aleinu l’chaloteinu, elah she’bechol dor vador omdim aleinu l’chaloteinu, V’Ha’Kadosh Baruch Hu matzileinu mi’yadam.\n\nThis is the promise that has sustained our ancestors and us. For not one enemy alone rose up to destroy us; rather, in every generation, they rise up to destroy us, and the Holy Blessed One rescues us from their hands.\n\nGroup: \n\nAs a refugee people – an immigrant people – we know that anti-Jewish and anti-immigrant hatred are deeply entwined. Tonight, we retell the story of the moment when first these hatreds met thousands of years ago, as Pharaoh declared that the Israelites had become too numerous in Egypt. Sadly, this narrative has repeated itself throughout Jewish history and continues to be weaponized, often with lethal consequences.\n\nToday, though, is the first moment in history when Jews are not predominately refugees. Rooted in our communal experience, in this generation, as in all generations before us, the Jewish people knows that our futures are bound up with those who now seek to enter our country, particularly refugees and asylum seekers fleeing violence and persecution. May no more generations suffer at the hands of those who vilify the other, and may we continue to be God’s partners in the ongoing redemption of those who long for freedom.\n\n Place second cup of wine down on the table without drinking. 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After you pour out a drop of wine for each of the ten plagues that Egypt suffered, we invite you to then pour out drops of wine for ten modern plagues facing refugee communities worldwide and in the United States. After you have finished reciting the plagues, choose a few of the expanded descriptions to read aloud.\n\nVIOLENCE\n\nMost refugees initially flee home because of violence that may include sexual and gender-based violence, abduction, or torture. The violence grows as the conflicts escalate. Unfortunately, many refugees become victims of violence once again in their countries of first asylum. A 2013 study found that close to 80% of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) living in Kampala, Uganda had experienced sexual and gender-based violence either in the DRC or in Uganda.\n\nDANGEROUS JOURNEYS\n\nForced to flee their home due to violence and persecution, refugees may make the dangerous journey to safety on foot, by boat, in the back of crowded vans, or riding on the top of train cars. Over the last several years, the United States has seen record numbers of unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central America. Many of these children have survived unimaginably arduous journeys, surviving abduction, abuse, and rape. Erminia was just 15 years old when she came to the United States from El Salvador in 2013. After her shoes fell apart while she walked through the Texas desert, she spent three days and two nights walking in only her socks. “There were so many thorns,” she recalls, “and I had to walk without shoes. The entire desert.”15\n\nLACK OF ACCESS TO EDUCATION\n\nThe 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees affirms that the right to education applies to refugees. However, research shows that refugee children face far greater language barriers and experience more discrimination in school settings than the rest of the population.16 Muna, age 17 in 2016, a Syrian refugee living in Jordan, who dropped out of school, said, “We can’t get educated at the cost of our self-respect.”17\n\nXENOPHOBIA\n\nJust as a 1939 poll from the American Institute of Public Opinion found that more than 60% of Americans opposed bringing Jewish refugees to the United States in the wake of World War II, today we still see heightened xenophobia against refugees. This fear can manifest through workplace discrimination, bias attacks against Muslim refugees, anti-refugee legislation such as the American SAFE Act of 2015 (H.R. 4038) which passed the House but was thankfully defeated in the Senate, and the various Executive Orders issued in 2017 and 2018 to limit refugees’ ability to come to the United States.", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "HIAS Haggadah 2019", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "2019 Favorites", "slug": "2019-favorites", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/190393/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.32.35-AM.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/190393/conversions/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.32.35-AM-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Ten Plagues", "slug": "ten-plagues" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 606, "tags": [ { "tag": "Modern Plagues", "slug": "modern-plagues" }, { "tag": "Justice", "slug": "justice" } ], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "10 Plagues | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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In every generation, everyone is obligated to...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": " B’chol dor vador chayav adam lirot et atzmo, k’ilu hu yatza mi’Mitzrayim. \n\nIn every generation, everyone is obligated to see themselves as though they personally left Egypt.\n\nDiscuss as a group: \n\nPut yourself back into the story of the Exodus. 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Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/second-question-1", "og:title": "Second Question | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "second-cup-of-wine-8", "title": "Second Cup of Wine", "author": "HIAS", "author_handle": "rachelgrantmeyer127704", "author_initials": "HI", "covertext": "Lift the second cup of wine and read together: V’hitzalti etchem... I will deliver you... בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹ...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": " Lift the second cup of wine and read together: \n\n V’hitzalti etchem... I will deliver you...\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן\n\n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen. \n\nWe praise God, Ruler of Everything, who creates the fruit of the vine.\n\nJust as we remember all of the times throughout history when the nations of the world shut their doors on Jews fleeing violence and persecution in their homelands, so, too, do we remember with gratitude the bravery of those who took us in during our times of need – the Ottoman Sultan who welcomed Spanish Jews escaping the Inquisition, Algerian Muslims who protected Jews during pogroms initiated by the French Pied-Noir, and the righteous gentiles hiding Jews in their homes during World War II. Today, we aspire to stand on the right side of history as we ask our own government to take a leadership role in protecting the world’s most vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers. May we find the bravery to open up our nation and our hearts to those who are in need. Blessed are You, Adonai our God, who delivers those in search of safety.\n\n Drink the second cup of wine. 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Then, re...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": " Each guest may ritually wash their hands by pouring water over each hand three times, alternating between them. Then, recite the blessing below together. \n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ מֶֽלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָֽׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו, וְצִוָּנוּ עַל נְטִילַת יָדָֽיִם\n\nBaruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha’olam, \nasher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu al nitilat yadayim.\n\nBlessed are You, Our God, Ruler of the Universe, who has sanctified us with commandments \nand has commanded us on the washing of hands.\n\nParticipant:\n\nAs we pour water over our hands in anticipation for the meal to come, we are mindful of \nthe many roles that water can play in our lives. At this moment, we use it to cleanse and prepare. But, for many around the world, water is the difference between life and death, between freedom and continued oppression. For the millions of asylum seekers worldwide who undertake treacherous journeys out of persecution, the oceans and seas are precarious pathways to liberty, often taking their lives in their depths. For the millions of refugees living in camps across the globe, access to clean water determines whether they will survive to rebuild their lives. We pray that all those in search of refuge find the transformative waters they need, encountering life renewed and anew.", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "HIAS Haggadah 2019", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "2019 Favorites", "slug": "2019-favorites", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/191373/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.25.57-PM.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/191373/conversions/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.25.57-PM-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Rachtzah", "slug": "rachtzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 486, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Rachtzah | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/rachtzah-249", "og:title": "Rachtzah | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/191373/conversions/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.25.57-PM-cover.jpg" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "motzi-matzah-281", "title": "Motzi-Matzah", "author": "HIAS", "author_handle": "rachelgrantmeyer127704", "author_initials": "HI", "covertext": "Leader: At the Passover Seder, we eat matzah as we remember the modest means by which the Israelites sustained themselve...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": "Leader: At the Passover Seder, we eat matzah as we remember the modest means by which the Israelites sustained themselves on their journey out of slavery, enabling them to survive and thrive in their new homeland.\n\nLike our ancestors, today’s refugees rebuild their lives with precious few resources at their disposal. These meager resources often become the seeds of their liberation as they go on to lay down new roots, rebuild their lives, and make important contributions to their local communities and our country as a whole.\n\n A participant reads the following story: \n\nTashitaa Tufaa, Ethiopian refugee living in Minnesota\n\nIn 1992, at the age of 24, Tashitaa Tufaa came to the United States, where he sought political asylum. Though Tashitaa had earned a college degree in his native Ethiopia, when he came to the U.S., the only work he could find was as a dishwasher, making less than $6 \nper hour. In order to make ends meet, Tashitaa took on several jobs, including working as a taxi driver.\n\nAfter almost a decade of working long, hard hours, Tashitaa challenged himself to start his own business. In 2003, he went door-to-door in his new home state of Minnesota to try to find clients for his new transportation business. Three years later, Tashitaa had successfully launched the Metropolitan Transportation Network (MTN). Started with just his taxi and his wife’s minivan, this new company was so successful that Tashitaa was able to buy school buses; though, he had to pay for them in cash. Today, MTN is one of the largest bus companies in Minnesota, employing hundreds of people and generating tens of millions of dollars \nin income. In addition to running the business, Tashitaa also mentors refugees across the country to help them achieve financial self-sufficiency and success for themselves and their families.\n\n Take turns reading these facts aloud: \n\nDid You Know?\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>\n\tThough refugees living in the United States for five years or less have a median household income of roughly $22,000, that number more than triples in the following decades, growing far faster than other foreign-born groups.\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\tRefugees are taxpayers. Over a twenty-year period, the majority of refugees fully pay back the cost of resettlement and other related benefits. They contribute, on average, $21,324 more in taxes than any costs associated with their initial resettlement.\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\tRefugees across the United States are helping to revitalize Main Street. In Akron, Ohio, Bhutanese and Burmese refugees have transformed the North Hill neighborhood from a landscape of vacant storefronts into a bustling corridor of grocery stores, clothing vendors, and jewelry shops. Bosnian refugees in St. Louis have transformed a section of the city called Bevo Mill, once known for its high crime, into an area full of popular Bosnian-owned restaurants, bars, and cafes.\n\t</li>\n</ul>\n\nDiscuss one of the following questions together:\n\n1. Does Tashitaa’s story resonate with your own family’s story of coming to the United States?\n\n2. How might you use Tashitaa’s story or the facts above to respond to those who claim that refugees take more from the American economy than they contribute?\n\n When your discussion concludes, recite the following blessings as a group, distribute the top and middle matzot set aside earlier in the Seder, and then taste the matzah: \n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ מֶֽלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, הַמּוֹצִיא לֶֽחֶם מִן הָאָֽרֶץ\n\n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, hamotzi lechem min ha-aretz. \n\nWe praise God, Ruler of Everything, who brings bread from the land.\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ מֶֽלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָֽׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתַָיו וְצִוָּֽנוּ עַל אֲכִילַת מַצָּה\n\n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu al achilat matzah. \n\nWe praise God, Ruler of Everything, who made us holy through obligations, commanding us to eat matzah.", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "HIAS Haggadah 2019", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "HIAS Haggadah 2021", "slug": "hias-haggadah-2021", "author": "HIAS" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/191374/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.28.19-PM.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/191374/conversions/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.28.19-PM-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Motzi-Matzah", "slug": "motzi-matzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 332, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Motzi-Matzah | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/191374/conversions/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.28.19-PM-cover.jpg" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "maror-411", "title": "Maror", "author": "HIAS", "author_handle": "rachelgrantmeyer127704", "author_initials": "HI", "covertext": "Group: With the taste of bitterness just before our lips, we remind ourselves of the bitterness that led to the enslavem...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": "Group: With the taste of bitterness just before our lips, we remind ourselves of the bitterness that led to the enslavement of our ancestors in Egypt. Tonight, we force ourselves to experience the stinging pain of the maror so that we should remember that, appallingly, even centuries later, the bitterness of xenophobia still oppresses millions of people around the world, forcing them to flee their homes.\n\nAs we taste the bitter herbs, we vow not to let words of hatred pass through our own lips and to root out intolerant speech wherever we may hear it, so that no one should fall victim to baseless hatred.\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ מֶֽלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָֽׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו וְצִוָּֽנוּ עַל אֲכִילַת מרוֹר\n\n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu al achilat maror. \n\nWe praise God, Ruler of Everything, who made us holy through obligations, commanding us to eat bitter herbs.\n\n Eat the maror. ", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": null, "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "HIAS Haggadah 2021", "slug": "hias-haggadah-2021", "author": "HIAS" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/191375/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.33.26-PM.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/191375/conversions/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.33.26-PM-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Maror", "slug": "maror" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 293, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Maror | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/maror-411", "og:title": "Maror | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/191375/conversions/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.33.26-PM-cover.jpg" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "koreich-198", "title": "Koreich", "author": "HIAS", "author_handle": "rachelgrantmeyer127704", "author_initials": "HI", "covertext": "Group: We now prepare to build the Hillel sandwich, combining the bitter maror with the sweet charoset. With the bittern...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": "Group: We now prepare to build the Hillel sandwich, combining the bitter maror with the sweet charoset.\n\nWith the bitterness of the maror still stinging our tongues and the knowledge that fear of “the other” continues to displace people still stinging our hearts, we take comfort in knowing that there can be an antidote to that hatred. It is up to each of us to temper the hatred that still plagues our world by joining together and saying “Dayeinu” – it is, now, enough.\n\nCombine maror and charoset between two pieces of matzah and recite the following as a group:\n\n Zeicher l’mikdash k’Hillel. Kein asah Hillel biz’man shebeit hamikdash hayah kayam. Hayah koreich matzah umaror v’ochel b’yachad, l’kayeim mah shene-emar: Al matzot um’rorim yochluhu. \n\nIn memory of the Temple, according to Hillel. This is what Hillel would do when the Temple still existed: he would combine matzah and maror and eat them together, in order to fulfill the teaching, “with matzot and maror they shall eat [the Passover sacrifice]” (Numbers 9:11).\n\nAfter you make the Hillel sandwich, discuss together:\n\nOver the next year, what will you do to temper the bitterness of xenophobia, as well as anti-refugee and anti-Muslim hate?\n\n", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": null, "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "HIAS Haggadah 2021", "slug": "hias-haggadah-2021", "author": "HIAS" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/191376/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.37.06-PM.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/191376/conversions/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.37.06-PM-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Koreich", "slug": "koreich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 319, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Koreich | Passover haggadah by HIAS", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Just as the Jewish people not only survived but also thrived following our exodus from Egypt and the many persecutions and expulsions we experienced thereafter, so, too, do today’s refugees rebuild their lives in extraordinary ways. Let us now read three of their stories.\n\nParticipants each read a story:\n\nEvelyn Lauder (née Hausner), a native of Vienna, Austria, fled Nazi-occupied Europe with her family as a young child and came \nto the United States with HIAS’ assistance. Shortly after starting her teaching career in Harlem, Evelyn met and married Leonard Lauder. After they were married, she joined the business founded by her mother-in-law: Estée Lauder Companies. She ultimately became Senior Corporate Vice President, created the Clinique brand, and developed its product line. Evelyn Lauder’s philanthropy and passion brought breast cancer and women’s health issues to the forefront of public awareness. She co-established The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, which formalized the pink ribbon as a worldwide symbol for breast cancer awareness and has raised over $350 million to support breast cancer research across the globe.\n\n-\n\nHaving fled civil war in his native Liberia in 1994, Wilmot Collins came to this country as a refugee. In the days before he and his wife left Monrovia, food was so scarce they once ate toothpaste. Once resettled in the United States, Wilmot became a U.S. citizen and worked for the Montana Department of Health and Human Services, specializing in child protection. He has also been a member of the United States Navy Reserve. Today, he is mayor of Helena, Montana, having defeated a four-term incumbent mayor to become the first black person to be elected the mayor of any city in the history of Montana.\n\n-\n\nSam (Yamin) Yingichay grew up in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) as one of an estimated 168 million children between the \nages of 5 and 14 engaged in child labor around the world. Forced into constructing roads and living with an abusive stepfather, at 14, Yamin escaped and began to search for her birth father. Eventually, she met a man claiming to know her father and followed him to Thailand, where she was once again sold into hard labor. Holding onto hope that she would one day be free, Yamin survived and escaped to Malaysia where she was granted refugee status and accepted for resettlement to the United States. In 2008, Yamin arrived in Grand Haven, Michigan to live with a foster family. Today, Yamin is studying to become a nurse. 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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/191378/conversions/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.42.38-PM-cover.jpg" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "tzafun-176", "title": "Tzafun", "author": "HIAS", "author_handle": "rachelgrantmeyer127704", "author_initials": "HI", "covertext": "As the meal is ending, the youngest participants – in body or spirit! – should go look for the afikomen, which was hidde...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": " As the meal is ending, the youngest participants – in body or spirit! – should go look for the afikomen, which was hidden earlier in the meal. Once it is found, read the passage below as the group shares in eating the afikomen. \n\nEarlier in our Seder, we broke the middle matzah, hiding the larger piece out of sight. 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Indeed, we are not the only people for whom food is liberation. Together, we read the words of Nathaly Rosas Martinez, who grew up between Mexico and the United States, as we remember that the stories of the foods we eat remind us of who we are in this world, even when we have left home in search of safety and freedom.\n\nGroup:\n\nI am from a place where \nThe food is an art and every bite \nIs a spicy piece of our culture \nWhere the smells call you to enjoy \nAnd the flavors take you to your memories.\n\nOur food is not only food \nIt’s a way to communicate our feelings \nIt’s a way to talk with our family \nIt’s our history, our identity.\n\nOur kitchen table may be in another country \nAnd the people who ate with us \nAre no longer here, \nBut we will return to gather.*\n\n Pour the third cup of wine. \n\n - \n\n * Excerpts from Nathaly Rosas Martinez, “Where Food is an Art,” in Merna Ann Hecht, ed., Our Table of Memories: Food & Poetry of Spirit, Homeland, & Tradition (Seattle, WA: Chatwin Books, 2015), 49-50. 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As God provided for our needs on the long journey from slavery to the Promised Land, let us give the refugees in our communities the tools they need not just to survive but to thrive: safe homes to settle into, quality education for their children, English language tutoring, access to jobs, and all of the things we would want for ourselves and our families. Blessed are You, Adonai our God, who gives us the opportunity to be your partner in ongoing redemption.\n\n Drink the third cup of wine. \n\nThird Question\n\nDiscuss as a group: What do you think makes some people stay and continue to experience unimaginable trauma and others flee in search of refuge and asylum? 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Make sure that all participants have an extra wine glass that has not been...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": " Have a participant open the door for Elijah. Make sure that all participants have an extra wine glass that has not been used for the previous three cups of wine and will not be used for the fourth cup of wine. Pour a cup of wine into the additional wine glass. Raising the additional cup of wine and read as a group: \n\nGathered around the Seder table, we ultimately pour four cups, remembering the gift of freedom that our ancestors received centuries ago. We delight in our liberation from Pharaoh’s oppression.\n\nWe drink four cups for four promises fulfilled.\n\nThe first cup as God said, “I will free you from the labors of the Egyptians.”\n\nThe second as God said, “And I will deliver you from their bondage.”\n\nThe third as God said, “I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.”\n\nThe fourth because God said, “I will take you to be My People.”\n\nWe know, though, that all are not yet free. As we welcome Elijah the Prophet into our homes, we offer an additional cup, a cup not yet consumed.\n\nAn additional cup for the more than 68 million refugees and displaced people around the world still waiting to be free – from the refugee camps in Chad to the cities and towns of Ukraine, for the Syrian refugees still waiting to be delivered from the hands of tyrants, for the thousands of asylum seekers in the United States still waiting in detention for redemption to come, for all those who yearn to be taken in not as strangers but as fellow human beings.\n\nThis Passover, let us walk in the footsteps of the One who delivered us from bondage. When we rise from our Seder tables, may we be emboldened to take action on behalf of the world’s refugees, hastening Elijah’s arrival as we speak out on behalf of those who are not yet free.\n\n Place this additional cup of wine down untasted. 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Consider singing some of your favorite songs about justice or read the words below. You may also consider singing “Pitchu Li” before you begin the reading.\n\n Pitchu li sha’arei tzedek avo vam odeh Yah. \n\nOpen for me the gate sof righteousness that I may enter them and praise God.\n\nGroup:\n\nOpen up the gates of freedom. \nOpen them to those in need of safety and protection. \nOpen up the gates of mercy. \nOpen them to those who forget that we were once strangers in the land of Egypt, the narrow place. \nOpen up the gates of justice. \nOpen them to those who remember that we know the soul of the stranger. Open up the gates of righteousness. \nOpen them to those who walk hand-in-hand and heart-to-heart with today’srefugees and asylum seekers. \nTogether, we will find the path to freedom.\n\n Pour the fourth cup of wine. 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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/191389/conversions/Screen-Shot-2019-04-18-at-12.54.13-PM-cover.jpg" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "fourth-cup-of-wine-7", "title": "Fourth Cup of Wine", "author": "HIAS", "author_handle": "rachelgrantmeyer127704", "author_initials": "HI", "covertext": "Fourth Question Discuss as a group: Just as we open the door for Elijah , what or to whom do you want to open the door t...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": "Fourth Question\n\nDiscuss as a group: Just as we open the door for Elijah , what or to whom do you want to open the door to in your own life this year? What fears do you have about doing so?\n\nFourth Cup of Wine\n\n Lift the fourth cup of wine and read together. \n\nV’lakachti etchem... I will redeem you...\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן\n\n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen. \n\nBlessed are You, Ruler of the Universe, who creates the fruit of the vine. \n\nWhen we rise up from our Seder tables, let us commit ourselves to stamping out xenophobia and hatred in every place that it persists. Echoing God’s words when God said, “I take you to be my people,” let us say to those who seek safety in our midst, “we take you to be our people.” May we see past difference and dividing lines and remember, instead, that we were all created b’tzelem Elohim, in the image of God. May we see welcoming the stranger at our doorstep not as a danger but an opportunity – to enrich the fabric of our country, to deepen our experience of the world around us, and to live out our Jewish values in action. Blessed are You, Adonai Our God, who has created us all in Your image.\n\n Drink the fourth cup of wine. 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The zeroah (s...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/conversions/hias-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105725/hias.png", "body": "Leader: As we conclude our Seder this evening, we draw our attention to the final item on our Seder plate. The zeroah (shank bone), which literally means “arm,” reminds us of the “outstretched arm” with which God brought the Israelite people out of slavery in Egypt.26\n\nJewish tradition teaches us that we are God’s partners in the continual act of creating a more just world in which all human beings are treated with dignity and compassion. 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After war came to their village outside Damascus, they witnessed the murder of their pregnant daughter and the kidnapping of their son. They sold their car to pay a large ransom and then ultimately escaped to Lebanon. After a lengthy vetting process, Mohammed, Eidah, and their youngest son, Najati, received word they would be resettled by HIAS through the Jewish Family Service of Buffalo. Mohammed says that, when he found out, he thought he was dreaming because “the United States is such a big thing for us that I don’t even see that in my dreams; I was so happy.” Najati is learning English and enrolled in school, and he says that, when he finds himself on the street on the way to school or to an appointment and he needs assistance, people go out of their way to communicate with him and help, even reading his body language to try to understand what he needs. While the family’s move is bittersweet because their oldest son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren remain in Lebanon and they worry constantly about their safety, Najati says that, here, in the United States, “wherever we go, we find helpful, loving people.” As he settles into his new life here, Najati made a drawing to express his gratitude for the opportunities that the Jewish Family Service of Buffalo and the United States government have provided him and his family. The drawing expresses thanks to the United States and features a large Jewish star, surrounded by the phrase “Thank you, Jewish Family” in Arabic. 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Haggadah Section: -- Exodus Story

WHY SHOULD I CARE ABOUT THIS AS A JEW? The Jewish people has been a refugee people since biblical times. In the United States, we know the devastating consequences of turning away refugees. Less than a century ago, refugees fleeing the Holocaust were marked as security threats to the U.S., denied entry, and sent back to Europe to be brutally murdered. Furthermore, the value of welcoming, protecting, and loving the stranger appears in the Torah 36 times according to the Talmud – more than any other value.

ARE REFUGEES A SECURITY THREAT? Refugees complete extensive security and medical screenings more rigorous than those for any other entrant to America – involving 5 U.S. government agencies – before they step foot on American soil. No person admitted through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program has ever been implicated in a major fatal terrorist attack in the United States.

WHY DOES THE UNITED STATES NEED TO WELCOME REFUGEES? CAN’T OTHER COUNTRIES DO IT? When the U.S. welcomes refugees, the rest of the nations of the world follow suit. Other countries are also doing their part. Millions of refugees first flee to and make a life in the countries closest to them. For example, Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey have all taken in millions of Syrian refugees.

AREN’T REFUGEES A DRAIN ON OUR ECONOMY? WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR HELPING THEM? Refugees pay taxes, get jobs, and start businesses; they contribute much more to our economy than they take from it. According to one study, in Cleveland, local refugee services agencies spent about $4.8 million in 2012 to help refugees get established, but the boon to the economy generated by those refugees weighed in at about $48 million, roughly 10 times the initial resettlement costs.

BUT AREN’T MANY OF THESE REFUGEES ANTI-SEMITIC? Many refugees arriving in the United States have never met Jews before. The welcome they receive from Jewish organizations, individuals, and congregations combats anti-Semitism that may exist, breaks down their assumptions, and helps them more quickly become part of the diverse fabric of this country. Additionally, all refugees resettled in the U.S. receive mandatory cultural orientation helping them embrace their new multi-faith, multi-ethnic nation. Finally, we should not be a people who withhold refuge based on religion.

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