Thoughts for Pesach

Is there any more powerful symbol of the drama, history, complex theology and moral imperative of the Jewish people than Pesah (Passover)?

Passover is all about going forth from the narrow places that limit us, freeing our bodies, minds, and spirits, and doing it in community. Whether this is your first year hosting a seder or you’ve done it countless times, we hope you’ll find some digital inspiration and guidance for a transformative and meaningful seder experience.

Here are some tools that we hope will make your experience of the holiday as rich as possible!

• The BHA Guide to Kashering for Pesach

• Selling Hametz

• The Music of Pesach from our friends at Bnai Jeshurun in NYC

If you are looking for a new Hagadah this year, here are some of my favorites

• A Night to Remember: The Haggadah of Contemporary Voices

• The Passover Hagadah Graphic Novel

• The Asufa Design Collective Haggadah

Of course, if you want to go the DIY route, you can make your own haggadah here, and possibly use the supplements from our friends below.

• Take a Stand for Refugees & The Seder Plate and Today’s Refugees (HIAS)

• Midwifing Resistance & Haggadah on Fighting Modern Slavery (T’ruah)

• A Global Justice Haggadah: Next Year in a More Just World & Dayenu for the 21st Century (AJWS)

• A Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Ally Haggadah (Keshet)

• A Jewish Response to Hunger (Mazon)

• Second Seder Plate (Jewish World Watch)

• Passover Out Loud (New Israel Fund)

• Free the Slaves – resources on slavery today

• The Four People is about engaging with racial justice as individuals and as a multi-racial and multi-ethnic Jewish community. (Repair the World & Jewish Multiracial Network)

• Food & Justice Hagaddah Supplement (Uri L’ Tzedek)

• Ethical Treatment of Animals supplement (Shamayim V’Aretz Institute)

• Passover, Earth Day, & the Global Climate Crisis (The Shalom Center)

The Immigration Crisis: A Pesach Seder Reflection (Jewish Social Policy Action Network)