Haggadot Contributors

Eileen Levinson

Los Angeles , California · US
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Eileen Levinson is a Los Angeles-based designer & artist. Her work re-imagines Jewish ritual for contemporary audiences. In addition to her projects within the Jewish community, Eileen served as Creative Director with Kin Community, a women’s-focused MCN on YouTube, from the brand’s launch in 2011 until summer 2015. Eileen has an MFA from the program in Graphic Design at CalArts, and BA from Washington University in St. Louis.

Wine Photograph

by Eileen Levinson

Wine Photograph

Contradictions

by Eileen Levinson

Contradictions

Downtown Los Angeles 1.21.17

by Eileen Levinson

Downtown Los Angeles 1.21.17

Maybe She's Born With It...

by Eileen Levinson

Maybe She's Born With It...

I Change Myself, I Change the World

by Eileen Levinson

I Change Myself, I Change the World

Diversity Makes Us Who We Are

by Eileen Levinson

Diversity Makes Us Who We Are

Dear 1%...

by Eileen Levinson

Dear 1%...

Dismantle the Patriarchy

by Eileen Levinson

Dismantle the Patriarchy

-- Four Children

Queer Latina Femmes Fight Back

by Eileen Levinson

Queer Latina Femmes Fight Back

Does Your Feminism Gentrify My Hood?

by Eileen Levinson

Does Your Feminism Gentrify My Hood?

Men of Quality Respect...

by Eileen Levinson

Men of Quality Respect...

-- Cup #2 & Dayenu

Still We Rise

by Eileen Levinson

Still We Rise

Maggid - Beginning

Women's Rights Are Human Rights

by Eileen Levinson

Women's Rights Are Human Rights

Audre Lorde Quote

by Eileen Levinson

Audre Lorde Quote

This is Just the Beginning

by Eileen Levinson

This is Just the Beginning

Hands Off My Uterus

by Eileen Levinson

Hands Off My Uterus

-- Exodus Story

Resist or Cease to Exist

by Eileen Levinson

Resist or Cease to Exist

-- Exodus Story

Justice For All

by Eileen Levinson

Justice For All

Turn on the Light

by Eileen Levinson

Turn on the Light

-- Exodus Story

She Persisted

by Eileen Levinson

She Persisted

-- Exodus Story

Wild Geese

by Eileen Levinson

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and...

Louis Armstrong - Go Down Moses

by Eileen Levinson

Commentary / Readings

Praise the Contrary and Its Defenders

by Eileen Levinson

For the chief musician, on common instrument: a song of rebellion. Praise rising up. Praise unlawful assembly.Praise the road of excess and the palace of wisdom.Praise glass houses. Praise the hand that cradles the stone.Praise refusal of obedience. Praise the young on Raamses Street.Praise Galileo. Praise acceleration.Praise bombshells and en masse.Praise sit-down strikes. Praise outside agitators.Praise Red Emma. Praise her pistol and praise her restraint.Praise living your life. Praise Joan of Arc.Praise wayward daughters. Praise their wayward sons.Praise the power of...

The Alternative Seder Plate

by Eileen Levinson

The Alternative Seder Plate

-- Four Children

The Four Adults

by Eileen Levinson

It is a tradition at the Seder to include a section entitled “the Four Children.” We have turned it upside down, to remind us that as adults we have a lot to learn from youth. From the U.S. to South Africa to Palestine, young people have been, and are, at the forefront of most of the social justice movements on this planet. If there is a mix of ages of people at your seder, perhaps some of the older people would...

Commentary / Readings

The Sarejevo Hagadah, 15th century Spain

by Eileen Levinson

The Sarejevo Hagadah, 15th century Spain

Cover - Love and Justice Haggadah

by Eileen Levinson

Cover - Love and Justice Haggadah

Commentary / Readings

German Illuminated Haggadah

by Eileen Levinson

German Illuminated Haggadah

Yachatz

by Eileen Levinson

Take the middle matzah and break it into two, one piece larger than the other. The larger piece is set aside to serve as afikoman. The smaller piece is put back, between the two matzot.

Karpas

by Eileen Levinson

Take less than a kezayit (the volume of one olive) of the karpas, dip it into salt-water or vinegar, and recite the following blessing: Blessed are You, L-rd, our G-d, King of the universe, who creates the fruit of the earth. When reciting this blessing, have in mind that it is also for the bitter herbs (of maror nad korech, to be eaten later on).

Grace After the Meal

by Eileen Levinson

Leader: Let us say grace. Company: Let us bless Him of whose bounty we have partaken and through whose goodness we live. Leader: Praised art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who sustainest the world with goodness, with grace, and with infinite mercy. Thou givest food unto every creature, for Thy mercy endureth for ever. Company: Through Thy great goodness, food has not failed us. May it never fail us at any time, for the sake of Thy...

Elijah’s Cup and Miriam’s Cup

by Eileen Levinson

The fourth cup of wine is poured We now draw our attention to the two empty cups on the table--one of which is for Elijah the Prophet, and the other for Miriam the Prophetess. Tradition teaches us that each of these biblical characters plays an important task of bringing redemption.It is said that that Elijah the Prophet visits the homes of Jewish families on Passover, to check to see if we are all truly ready to welcome the stranger, and are...

Let All Who Are Hungry Come and Eat

by Eileen Levinson

We begin the telling of our story by lifting up the matzah, opening wide the door to our seder and offering an invitation to anyone who can hear us to come join in our seder meal. The original version of this text is not in Hebrew, but in Aramaic, because it was the language that everyone would understand. As we say this, we imagine a time and place where this invitation could have actually brought in poor and hungry people off...

-- Four Children

The Four Sons

by Eileen Levinson

By a fitting answer to the questions of each of the four types of the sons of Israel, does the Torah explain the meaning of this night's celebration.The wise son eager to learn asks earnestly: "What mean the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances, which the Lord our God hath commanded us?" To him thou shalt say: "This service is held in order to worship the Lord our God, that it may be well with us all the days of...

Karpas

by Eileen Levinson

Some parsley, lettuce or watercress is distributed to all present who dip it in salt water or in vinegar, and before partaking of it say in unison: BORUCH ATTO ADONOI ELOHENU MELECH HO‘OLOM BORE P’RI HO’ADOMO. Praised art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, Creator of the fruit of the earth.

Lighting the Festival Lights

by Eileen Levinson

To symbolize the joy which the festival brings into the Jewish home, the mistress kindles the lights and recites the following blessing: ‏בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ מֶֽלֶךְ הָֽעוֹלָֽם אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָֽׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו וְצִוָּֽנוּ לְהַדְלִיק נֵר שֶׁל-(שַׁבָּת וְשֶׁל)-יוֹם טוֹב.‎ BORUCH ATTO ADONOI ELOHENU MELECH HO‘OLOM ASHER KIDD’SHONU B’MITZVOSOV V’TZIVONU L’HADLIK NER SHEL (on Sabbath add: SHABBOS V’SHEL) YOM TOV. ‏בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ מֶֽלֶךְ הָֽעוֹלָֽם. שֶׁהֶֽחֱיָֽנוּ וְקִיְּמָֽנוּ וְהִגִּיעָֽנוּ לַזְּמַן הַזְּה׃‎ BORUCH ATTO ADONOI ELOHENU MELECH HO‘OLOM SHEHEḤEYONU V’KIY’MONU V’HIGIONU LAZMAN HAZZEH. Praised art...

Commentary / Readings

Slavery

by Rabbi Zoë Klein

Matzah Matzah

by Rabbi Zoë Klein

Commentary / Readings

The Orange on the Seder Plate

by Anita Diamant .

Dayenu: Supporting the Long Journey from Disaster to Recovery

by AJWS American Jewish World Service

The Power of Our Freedom: A Reading Before Drinking the First Cup of Wine

by AJWS American Jewish World Service

Let All Who Are Hungry Come and Eat: A reading for the Passover Seder

by AJWS American Jewish World Service

-- Four Children

The Four Children

by AJWS American Jewish World Service

In Search of Freedom: A Passover Seder for Darfur- Conclusion

by AJWS American Jewish World Service

Traditional - Urchatz

by Haggadot

What is the meaning of matzah?

by OurJewishCommunity .org

Commentary / Readings

An Arab Shepherd Is Searching For His Goat On Mount Zion

by TAMAR FOX

-- Four Children

The One Who Does Not Know How to Ask

by TAMAR FOX

Cover 1

by Shira Zigler

Cover 1

Maggid - Beginning

Tomato on the Seder Plate

by TAMAR FOX

Commentary / Readings

Ten Ways to Bring Human Rights to Your Seder

by TAMAR FOX

Commentary / Readings

We Won’t Get Fooled Again: Helping Teens Identify Pharaoh

by Moving Traditions

All Green With Life

by heidi aycock

Four Cups of Wine

by Alan Scher

Mixing the Bitter and the Sweet

by Andrea Steinberger

ONE FAMILY: THE FOUR CHILDREN AND THE DISPARITY OF WEALTH

by TAMAR FOX

Ten Ways to Destroy Your Life

by morah izzy

Before Kiddush, from Tikkun Passover supplement 2005

by Jeffrey Fischer

-- Exodus Story

Gender Reflections on the Passover Story

by Moving Traditions

Gender Reflections on the Passover Story

End of the Seder

by Haggadot

End of the Seder

Our Pleasure Diminished By The Pain of Others

by Machar Congregation

Dipping Greens in Salt Water

by Machar Congregation

Four Cups of Wine

by Haggadot

Four Cups of Wine

Welcome to the Love and Justice Haggadah

by Haggadot

The Cup of Sanctification - Kadesh

by VBS

The First Cup - Welcome The Festival

by JQ International

Ha'Adamah

by Haggadot

Ha'Adamah

Kadesh

by Haggadot

Kadesh