Lgbt Stats

1) 64% felt unsafe at school due to sexual orientation

2) 44% felt unsafe at school due to gender identification

3) 42% of LGBT youth have experienced cyber bullying

4) 42% of LBGT youth say the community in which they live in is not accepting of LGBT people

5) Only 77% of LGBT youth say they know things will get better

6) 60% LGBT students report feeling unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation

7) LGBT youth are 4 times more likely to attempt suicide as their straight peers

8) LGBT students are twice as likely to say that they were not planning on completing high school or going on to college

9) LGBT youth who reported higher levels of family rejection during adolescence are three times more likely to use illegal drugs

10) Half of gay males experience a negative parental reaction when they come out and in 26% of those cases the youth was thrown out of the home

haggadah Section: -- Ten Plagues

Featured clips

Introduction

Candle Lighting

by Haggadot

Kadesh

Kiddush

by Haggadot

Commentary / Readings

Why is there an Oyster on the Seder Plate?

by Paul Kipnes

ALL: Tonight we might have put an oyster on our Seder plate. While I didn’t particularly want to put something traif atop that most kosher of dishes, this Passover falls on the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. And since BP, the leaseholder of the failed well, seems intent with its new television ads on making us forget about the spill, I felt that something drastic was in order to help us remember. Combining the...

Yachatz

by Mordechai Smith

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

Hallel

Direct Contact

by Benjamin Cherkasky

We all carry around ideas and images of reality, frequently garnered from other people or from courses we have taken, books we have read, or from television, the radio, newspapers, the culture in general, which give us pictures of how things are and what is occurring. As a result, we often see our thoughts, or someone else's, instead of seeing what is right in front of us or inside of us. Often, we don't even bother to look or check how...

-- Exodus Story

Bastet

by Nina Paley

Yachatz

The Middle Matzah Horcrux

by Cantor fbg

We break the middle matzah spiriting away a part of the tribes of Israel to be lost until found at the end of proceedings. What does this feel like, to rip at a part of our Jewish souls to leave them in hiding?

-- Four Children

Four Children - Drama

by David Aston

The Wise Child (Enters and sits near the leader. He is eager and earnest.) "Tateh, teach me everything about Pesach...all the laws, the customs, the rituals...everything! I want to learn it all!" The Wicked Child (Enters and Stands, glaring at the leader. He is angry and full of contempt.) "Dachau, Mumbai, terrorism, murder. What good have all your pious prayers done you?! To hell with your ritual, and to hell with you!" (He sits.) The Simple Child (Enters, walks over and...

Kadesh

Anne Frank Quote on Freedom

by Elizabeth Kohen

Introduction

On the Hebrew Root S-D-R

by Max Chaiken

A HEBREW LESSON ON THE ROOT-WORD S-D-RHow is the festival meal of Passover different from the meal eaten at other holiday celebrations? For one thing, the Passover repast is consumed in the context of a scripted dramatic arrangement, a (seder), from the Hebrew verb (le-sadder), "to arrange." There are, to be sure, similar arrangements in Jewish ritual and textual life. The daily prayer book, which contains a sort of script for the performance of devotional texts, is called a (siddur). One...

Urchatz

by Stephanie Friedman

Pass a pitcher, basin, and towl around the table. Rinse and dry your hands, saying: Let our telling pour forth like water, strengthening spirits, refreshing souls.

-- Cup #2 & Dayenu

Dayenu Remix

by Jewish Womens Theatre

-- Four Children

Four Faces of Oneself

by K Cohen

My Angry Self – Violent and oppressive things are happening to me, the people I love and people I don’t even know. Why can’t we make the people in power hurt the way we are all hurting?Expressing our anger, releasing our anger, knowing and claiming our anger is an important step in the process of liberation, but hatred and violence can never overcome hatred and violence. Only love and compassion can transform our world. My Ashamed Self – I’m so ashamed...

Introduction

James Baldwin Quote

by Louisa Solomon

“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving." -James Baldwin

Yachatz

The Afflicted Matza

by Trisha Arlin

The top MatzohAnd bottom Matzoh are,it is said,Pesach substitutesFor the two loaves of challah on Shabbat,Supposedly a reminderOf the two portions of mannaThey received in the dessertEvery Friday before Shabbat. But the middle matza?!Ah,That's for the seder.We break it in halfAnd call it the bread of affliction,Just like the unleavened breadWe ate as we fled slavery Matza Number Two,The afflicted matza, We break it in halfAnd separate ourselves from joySo we don't forget the painThat has been ours.We break it in...

Shulchan Oreich

Third Cup of Wine - A Cup to the Freedom Fighters

by Mel King

The Third Cup of Wine A cup to the freedom fighters this is a prayer for all freedom fighters, a prayer for the tired, the burnt out, the heartsick, the cynical this is a prayer for all freedom fighters brave enough to cry, for the reaching around of arms, the firm handclaps of comradeship, the sanctuary of bodies when we need to hide our faces. this is a prayer for wordless understanding, the flickering human eye flames of humor and warmth,...

Commentary / Readings

Elijah the Prophet

by Beth Flusser

Yachatz

The difference between Shmurah Matzah and Regular Matzah

by Jay Karas

By Eliyahu KitovIt is a mitzvah that the Passover matzot be made specifically for the purpose of fulfilling the obligation to eat matzot on Passover, as the verse (Exodus, 12:17) states: You shall guard the matzot. The matzah must be guarded to ensure that it does not become chametz; matzah which was not guarded may not be used on Passover.How do we "guard" the matzah used on Passover? From the time that the wheat is taken to the mill to be...

More clips from Jason Azizian

-- Four Questions

The Four Questions Questioning

by Jason Azizian

Questioning: For some, the process of exploring and discovering one's own sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. Sometimes teens can find answers by asking themselves things like: Who do I usually have crushes on? Is it mainly someone of the same gender? Do I imagine relationships with someone of the same gender? If I have dated or had a sexual experience with someone of the opposite gender, how did it make me feel? If I dated or had a sexual...

-- Exodus Story

Exodus Story LGBT

by Jason Azizian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GESBUlXBCvE

-- Ten Plagues

by Jason Azizian

1) 64% felt unsafe at school due to sexual orientation 2) 44% felt unsafe at school due to gender identification 3) 42% of LGBT youth have experienced cyber bullying 4) 42% of LBGT youth say the community in which they live in is not accepting of LGBT people 5) Only 77% of LGBT youth say they know things will get better 6) 60% LGBT students report feeling unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation 7) LGBT youth are 4 times...