{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "nif-four-questions", "title": "NIF: Four Questions", "author": "New Israel Fund", "author_handle": "nif", "author_initials": "NI", "covertext": "For discussion: Ask a few children (or adults!) what they feel is the most important difference between the Seder and al...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>For discussion:</p>\n<p>Ask a few children (or adults!) what they feel is the most important difference between the Seder and all other nights.</p>\n<p>Ask several of your guests to share a question that he or she feels is particularly important to discuss at the Seder this year.</p>\n<p>According to the Talmud, if a man has neither children nor a wife, he must ask himself questions. Why are questions so important at the Seder?</p>\n<p>Originally, children were expected to ask their own spontaneous questions at the Seder. What’s your reaction to the fact that reciting the beloved Four Questions replaced the earlier approach?</p>\n<p>MODERN REFLECTIONS | Read aloud and discuss as desired.</p>\n<p>For ten years, they beat me every morning. They made me sleep with the animals, and they gave me very bad food. They said I was an animal… But every day I prayed to God. One day, I asked my master a question: “Why do you call me ‘abeed’? [Related to eved, the Hebrew word for slave.] And why do you feed me bad food all the time and make me sleep with the animals? Is it because I am black?” My master was very angry. “Where did you learn to ask this question?” he said. “Never ask me this again.” And he beat me and beat me. When I was 17, decided to escape. I would rather die than be a slave.</p>\n<p>—Francis Bok, a former slave in Sudan who escaped in 1999</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "David Arnow, New Israel Fund 2006", "featured": 0, "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": 219, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "NIF: Four Questions | Passover haggadah by New Israel Fund", "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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Telling our story must lead to action.</p>\n<p>The Haggadah borrows a phrase from the Bible.“…For seven days…you shall eat unleavened bread, bread of affliction” (Deut. 16:3, lechem oni or lach’ma an’ya here in Aramaic). The Haggadah instantly connects memory with empathy. Remembering the bread of our affliction—bread of poverty, as some render it—compels us to care for the needy. Rav Huna, a third century sage from Babylonia, seems to have inspired this invitation to the hungry. Impoverished in his early life, Rav Huna never forgot the poor when he became wealthy.</p>\n<p>According to the Talmud, “when he had a meal he would open the door wide and declare, ‘Let all who are in need come and eat.’” Why the expectation that “next year” so much will change? Because in the Talmud Rabbi Joshua taught, “In Nisan[the month when Passover falls] they were redeemed: and in Nisan they will be redeemed.” But we live now, in the unredeemed present—between the epic past and a messianic future—and today our world will become what we make of it. Maybe that’s why this introduction to the Passover story focuses on us, and doesn’t mention God.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "David Arnow, New Israel Fund 2006", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "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": 255, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "NIF: Introduction to Magid | Passover haggadah by New Israel Fund", "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/nif-introduction-magid", "og:title": "NIF: Introduction to Magid | Passover haggadah by New Israel Fund", "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": "nif-who-knows-one", "title": "NIF: Who Knows One?", "author": "New Israel Fund", "author_handle": "nif", "author_initials": "NI", "covertext": "By Rabbi Michael Stressfeld Who knows one? One is the Janjaweed  militia cleansing Darfur. Who knows one? Two is the ste...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>By Rabbi Michael Stressfeld</p>\n\n<p>Who knows one? One is the Janjaweed  militia cleansing Darfur.</p>\n<p>Who knows one? Two is the stealing and killing of livestock.</p>\n<p>Who knows one? Three is the poisoning of wells and the destruction of crops.</p>\n<p>Who knows one? Four is the deliberate use of rape to destroy and humiliate families.</p>\n<p>Who knows one? Five is the creation of 2.5 million people: displaced, hungry, susceptible to disease.</p>\n<p>Who knows one? Six is the over 400,000 people who have already died.</p>\n<p>These and more are the plagues of Darfur.</p>\n<p>Who knows one?</p>\n<p>I know one.</p>\n<p>Send a postcard to President Bush.</p>\n<p>Urge him to take leadership on this issue.</p>\n<p>Lo dayenu –but it is not enough.</p>\n<p>Who knows one?</p>\n<p>I know one.</p>\n<p>Encourage institutions to hang Save Darfur</p>\n<p>banners outside their buildings.</p>\n<p>Lo dayenu –but it is not enough.</p>\n<p>Who knows one?</p>\n<p>I know one.</p>\n<p>Attend the rally in Washington, DC on April 30th.</p>\n<p>Lo dayenu –but it is not enough.</p>\n<p>Who knows one?</p>\n<p>I know one.</p>\n<p>Encourage others to go to the rally.</p>\n<p>Lo dayenu–but it is not enough.</p>\n<p>Who knows one?</p>\n<p>I know one—Rwanda.</p>\n<p>Who knows one?</p>\n<p>I know one—Bosnia.</p>\n<p>Who knows one?</p>\n<p>I know one—Cambodia.</p>\n<p>There are too many ones.</p>\n<p>And I am the child who does not know how to count:</p>\n<p>One. Two. Four hundred thousand. Six million.</p>\n<p>For six million are the lips of our dead mouthing</p>\n<p>“never again” in eternal silence.</p>\n<p>Who knows one? I know one.</p>\n<p>For I am that one.</p>\n<p>One person created in the image of God.</p>\n<p>It is for me alone to speak out. I and no other.</p>\n<p>Not a messenger, not a congressperson,</p>\n<p>not a president.</p>\n<p>I alone am here to tell the tale.</p>\n<p>Who knows one? I am that one.</p>\n<p>And who knows—I may be the one who </p>\n<p>will make the difference.</p>\n<p>SAVE DARFUR.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "David Arnow, New Jewish Fund 2006", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 222, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "NIF: Who Knows One? | Passover haggadah by New Israel Fund", "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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But this year, as we celebrate Passover, z’man cheiruteinu—the season of our liberation—we add our voices to those demanding an end to the genocide in Darfur.</p>\n<p>We read in the Passover Haggadah about Pharaoh’s “oppression” of the Israelites. Today we would surely call it genocide: </p>\n<p>And [God] saw our oppression that is, the conjugal separation of husband and wife, as it is written:  God saw the children of Israel and God knew (Ex. 2:25).</p>\n<p>Our misery refers to the drowning of the sons, as it is written: Every son that is born you shall cast into the river, but you shall let every daughter live (Ex. 1:22). First, Pharaoh drowns all newborn sons. Then he tries to eliminate the Israelites through forced labor and a program of zero population growth—“the separation of husband from wife.” The Haggadah recounts one of the earliest attempts at genocide. Tonight we must consider how we can help prevent the most recent case: Darfur.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "David Arnow, New Israel Fund 2006", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 213, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "NIF: Darfur | Passover haggadah by New Israel Fund", "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": "nif-how-night-different", "title": "NIF: How is this night different?", "author": "New Israel Fund", "author_handle": "nif", "author_initials": "NI", "covertext": "HOW IS THIS NIGHT DIFFERS FROM ALL OTHER NIGHTS Eighteen hundred years ago, the Mishnah, one of Judaism’s oldest law cod...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>HOW IS THIS NIGHT DIFFERS FROM ALL OTHER NIGHTS</p>\n<p>Eighteen hundred years ago, the Mishnah, one of Judaism’s oldest law codes or teaching manuals, sketched the outlines of the early Passover Seder.</p>\n<p>The Mishnah loosely styled its Seder on the Greek symposium, a banquet served on removable trays (now the Seder plate) to guests who comfortably reclined. The symposium began with dipped hors d’oeuvres, included prayers and finished with stylized questions and answers, often concerning the symbolism of particular foods.Wine flowed. Indeed, symposium means “to drink with.”</p>\n<p>In contrast to the symposium, the Mishnah’s Seder assigned a special role to children. They were expected to notice how different the evening was and to ask,“Why?” In case they didn’t, the Mishnah offered parents a series of prompts. Those prompts evolved into the famous “four questions” which are actually four  responses to a single question: “How does this night differ from all other nights?” If you’ve created an evening that stimulates your guests to ask questions, you will have fulfilled one of the original and most important goals of the Seder!</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "David Arnow, New Israel Fund 2006", "featured": 0, "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": 208, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "NIF: How is this night different? | Passover haggadah by New Israel Fund", "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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What do you make of their order?</p>\n<p>What might the Haggadah mean when it says “now we are slaves?” In what sense might we be more free next year?</p>\n<p>A 2005 United Nations Children Fund study of 25 Western countries found child poverty rates between a low of 2.4% (Denmark) and a high 27.8% (Mexico) with the U.S. second from the highest at 21.9%. Using comparable methods of analysis, Israeli researchers found that in Israel 30.8% of children live in poverty. How should Jews respond to this issue?</p>\n<p>MODERN REFLECTIONS: Read aloud and discuss as desired</p>\n<p>[M]ore than 3,300 years ago the Jews left Egypt. It was more than 3,000 years before the Mayflower, and every Jew in the world knows exactly the date when we left. It was on the 15th of Nisan. The bread they ate was matzot. 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