InterfaithFamily.com has posted a host of resources for non-Jews attending – or hosting – their first Passover Seder. Learn why the holiday is so important to Jews (it’s all about family, the site suggests) and get insight into the Jewish concept of time (it’s holy). The romantic implications are also explored in… More ▸
The seder plate increasingly is being pressed into service for all kinds of causes, from rotting lettuce marking urban “food deserts,” coffee beans symbolizing fair trade practices and olives suggesting Israeli-Palestinian peace. You can add oranges, artichokes and chocolate, too. More ▸
Seder plates can be porcelain heirlooms or a child’s precious gift, but they all tell the same story of a people’s liberation. More ▸
Who knows One? Aussies! Someone down under conducted lots of sing-along interviews to create this composite of Passover seder song Echad Mi Yodea, Who Knows One. The lion logos on the school uniforms indicate that this was an effort by the students and faculty of Mount Scopus College, a Jewish Day School in Melbourne, Australia. More ▸
The traditional Seder plate contains an egg, shank bone, karpas, charoset and maror. Some also make room for the hazeret, another kind of bitter green. But recently other fruits and vegetables have showed up on the plate, representing a variety of causes from solidarity with oppressed Jewish communities to welcoming the intermarried. First was the… More ▸
JewishBoston.com has posted what it describes as a 30-minute Passover Haggadah, of the mix-and-match variety. Blogger David Wilensky, writing on The Reform Shuckle, gives it a thumbs-up: For a 30-minute seder, it looks pretty great. It takes as a given the 14-part order to the seder and then prunes the whole thing back to the… More ▸
How do you keep the kids from dropping off to sleep during the Passover Seder? Bring them into it ahead of time, suggests Devorah Katz in the spring 2011 issue of Jewish Action, the magazine of the Orthodox Union. Plagues? We got yer Plagues right here — plastic animals scattered on the table will keep little hands… More ▸
According to the Mishnah, the seder is not set in stone, writes the author of “Creating Lively Passover Seders: A Sourcebook of Engaging Tales, Texts & Activities.” More ▸
An Ethiopian Israeli family in Netanya shows how they celebrate the Passover Seder in this English-dubbed video on Shalom Sesame, Israel’s version of Sesame Street. Posting the video on interfaithfamily.com, writer Matt Hawkins suggests it as a good way to show kids how different communities celebrate Jewish holidays. Like most of us, the family makes… More ▸
The Maxwell House Passover Haggadah gets its first new English translation since 1934, and joins a few other new haggadahs of note this spring. More ▸
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