Immigrant Roots, Immigrant Rights: The Ten Plagues

Ancient Plague: Blood
Modern Plague:Upheaval and Oppression in Home Countries

Ancient Plague: Frogs
Modern Plague: Poor Access to Education

Ancient Plague: Lice
Modern Plague:Language Access Barriers

Ancient Plague: Wild Beasts
Modern Plague:Wage Theft

Ancient Plague: Pestilence
Modern Plague:Unemployment

Ancient Plague: Boils
Modern Plague:Fear of Law Enforcement

Ancient Plague: Hail
Modern Plague:Housing Obstacles

Ancient Plague: Locusts
Modern Plague:Racism and Racial Profiling

Ancient Plague: Darkness
Modern Plague:Inability to Secure Documentation

Ancient Plague: Slaying of the Firstborn
Modern Plague:Separation of Families

haggadah Section: -- Ten Plagues

Featured clips

Yachatz

The Matzah of Peace

by Jeremy Borovitz

THE MATZAH OF HOPE and PEACE Neal Borovitz Avadim Hayinu: Not only were we slaves to the Pharaoh of Egypt, we have also been enslaved and persecuted by other Pharaohs. Among these Pharaohs of every age were the Kings of Babylonia, the Emperors of Greece and Rome, the Churchmen and Nobles of Medieval Spain, Hitler and his Nazi followers, the Pharaohs of Moscow, and the dictators, potentates and terrorists of the contemporary Arab world. The Babylonian exile was followed by a...

Maggid - Beginning

Healthy Debate: How This Night Can Be Different

by Moving Traditions

Tzafun

Afikomen Prize

by Haggadot

Commentary / Readings

by HIAS

-- Ten Plagues

Skit - Pharaoh and Moses Go To A Conflict Counselor

by Dave Cowen

Introduction

Stephen Miller Removes/Deports The Hametz

by Dave Cowen

Bareich

Ruth's Cup: A New Passover Ritual Celebrating Jewish Diversity

by Be'chol Lashon

Maggid - Beginning

The Red Haggadah

by Haggadot

Maggid - Beginning

Ha Lachma Anya Tradition

by Melissa Simon

A blessing on your head...Mazel tov! Mazel tov! Our spin on the Moroccan Jewish tradition is to pass the remaining pieces of matzah around for everyone to both make and receive a blessing. Hold the matzah up over the person's head to your left and whisper a private blessing or wish for them. We will continue with our Seder while you each partake in this private moment. Wishes and blessings around themes of freedom are especially appropriate tonight but feel free...

Commentary / Readings

Mark Twain's 1899 Harper's Article "Concerning The Jews"

by Melissa Simon

This article was written in 1899 when anti-Semitism was widespread in the United States. Large companies did not hire Jews, Universities either didn't admit Jews or limited their numbers with strict quotas. "Respectable" people like Ford and Edison expressed their anti-Jewish feelings openly. Mark Twain had an answer for them: Written by Mark Twain in Harper's, September 1899 If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of stardust...

-- Exodus Story

Skit - The Democrats Try To Nominate A New Moses

by Dave Cowen

Introduction

Welcome in our Departed

by Michael T. Martinez

Traditionally, a Seder is held only on the first two nights of Pesach. And on the last day of Pesach we observe a Yizkor day, a memorial day in which we light candles to remember those we have lost, and perhaps go to synagogue and participate in a Yizkor service. How much better to also have a Seder on the last night, and to welcome in the memories of those we have lost to celebrate a Passover Seder with them? On...

Bareich

Grace

by Joi Brickman Garvin

Leader: Pour the third cup of wine GRACE (read responsively) A full grace... a graceful toast... to us to where we each come from to where we’re going and how we’re changing to being where we are and who we are to what we can share to what we can’t share -- yet to our joys and to our struggles which in full times we know are connected which in harder times isolate us to our efforts to our faith to...

More clips from Smith College Jewish Community

Commentary / Readings

"On Freedom" Kahlil Gibran

by Smith College Jewish Community

On Freedom And an orator said, "Speak to us of Freedom." And he answered: At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom, Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them. Ay, in the grove of the temple and in the shadow of the citadel I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff. And my heart...

Maggid - Beginning

Miriam's Cup

by Smith College Jewish Community

Miriam’s Cup Reader 1: The story has always been told of a miraculous well of living water which has accompanied the Jewish people since the world was spoken into being. The well comes and goes, as it is needed, and as we remember, forget, and remember again how to call it to us. In the time of the exodus from Mitzrayim, the well came to Miriam, in honor of her courage and action, and stayed with the Jews as they wandered...

Shulchan Oreich

Afikomen

by Smith College Jewish Community

In some Ashkenazi traditions, the Afikomen is hidden during the meal, for the ‘children’ to find later. This ceremony reminds us that what is broken can be repaired and that what is lost can be regained, as long as we remember it and search for it

TOP HAGGADAHS FOR 2020:

Featured clips

The Matzah of Peace

Healthy Debate: How This Night Can Be Different

Afikomen Prize

Welcoming All: An Inclusive Passover Reading

#SecondSederPlate for Today's Refugees - 2019

The Four Children Approach the Future

Navigating Jewish and American Slavery Narratives

From POTSA to Matzah

Nirtzah

Skit - Pharaoh and Moses Go To A Conflict Counselor

Stephen Miller Removes/Deports The Hametz

Ruth's Cup: A New Passover Ritual Celebrating Jewish Diversity

The Red Haggadah

Ha Lachma Anya Tradition

Mark Twain's 1899 Harper's Article "Concerning The Jews"

Skit - The Democrats Try To Nominate A New Moses

Welcome in our Departed

Grace

More clips from Smith College Jewish Community

"On Freedom" Kahlil Gibran

Miriam's Cup

Afikomen