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

Introduction

The Elephant At Your Passover Seder

by JewBelong

Introduction

A moment for grief

by Ariel Kates

As we sit down to this Seder it's impossible to ignore that this is our *second annual* Zoom Seder. In the time between last Seder and this Seder, our beloved planet has lost more than two and a half million people to a virus which has laid bare so many of the difficulties, discriminatory structures, and pressure points in our world and its economies and varied governments. Even with movements for justice around the world continuing and taking on even more...

Introduction

Introduction to the Haggadah

by The Telling By Mark Gerson

Kadesh

DIY Seder - Kadesh (Blessing Over The Wine, with Rabbi Deena Cowans/Mishkan Chicago)

by Jewish Emergent Network

Urchatz

by Eric Chafetz

We will wash our hands twice during our seder: now, with no blessing, to get us ready for the rituals to come; and then again later, we’ll wash again with a blessing, preparing us for the meal. Too often during our daily lives we don’t stop and take the moment to prepare for whatever it is we’re about to do. Let's pause as we wash our hands to consider what we hope to get out of our time together.

Karpas

Acknowledging and Releasing the Burdens: An Old/ New Ritual for Breaking the Middle Matzah

by Moving Traditions

For Passover this year, Moving Traditions is sharing a new take on a traditional Syrian and Moroccan Passover ritual in which seder participants place a piece of matzah on their shoulder to recall the experience of bondage. After the middle of three sheets of matzah is broken, the larger piece—which later will be used for the afikomen —is passed around the room. Each guest places it on their shoulder (using the right hand and left shoulder) while reciting a line from...

Yachatz

Schitt's Creek Yachatz

by Haggadot

Maggid - Beginning

Poem of Shifra, The Midwife

by Haggadot

SHIFRA, THE MIDWIFE, SPEAKS TO THE PROTESTERS OUTSIDE PLANNED PARENTHOOD Exodus 1:17 “The midwives feared G‑d, so they the disobeyed king of Egypt, and allowed the boys to live.” These days, my primary business is smuggling. Any baby boys born must find safe hiding before dawn, the new mothers allowed little more than a glance, a soft kiss, before heading back to their huts. In the morning, I will tell Pharaoh how the Israelite women breed like spiders, giving birth too...

Maggid - Beginning

The Egg on the Seder Plate and the Seventy Facets of Torah

by The Telling By Mark Gerson

Maggid - Beginning

Freeing Your Inner Pharaoh

by Alison Laichter

-- Four Questions

Fifth Question for 2021

by MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger

MAZON’s Fifth Question LEADER: Each year at the Seder, we ask the traditional Four Questions. And each year, MAZON asks a Fifth Question to raise awareness about hunger and spark important conversations around the seder table. ALL: How will we retell this story? How will we retell the story of this past year, and all it has wrought? Though we are still in the throes of the pandemic, we know this will be a defining moment, just as is the story...

-- Four Questions

Four "Schitty" Questions

by Haggadot

-- Four Children

The Passover Seder's Four Children and LGBTQ+ Inclusion: Moving Toward Full Hospitality

by ReformJudaism.org

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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

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Featured clips

The Elephant At Your Passover Seder

A moment for grief

Introduction to the Haggadah

DIY Seder - Kadesh (Blessing Over The Wine, with Rabbi Deena Cowans/Mishkan Chicago)

Urchatz

Karpas in 2021

Dipping of Parsley or other green

Song of Crossing the Sea

Open Hearted Liberation

Matzo Cracking

Acknowledging and Releasing the Burdens: An Old/ New Ritual for Breaking the Middle Matzah

Schitt's Creek Yachatz

Poem of Shifra, The Midwife

The Egg on the Seder Plate and the Seventy Facets of Torah

Freeing Your Inner Pharaoh

Fifth Question for 2021

Four "Schitty" Questions

The Passover Seder's Four Children and LGBTQ+ Inclusion: Moving Toward Full Hospitality

More clips from Smith College Jewish Community

"On Freedom" Kahlil Gibran

Miriam's Cup

Afikomen