cover art, Jill Minkoff
“In every generation, each person is obligated to see themselves as if they personally left Egypt.” With these words, the Passover Seder transforms memory into moral vision. In Every Generation invites readers to encounter immigration not as a contemporary controversy, but as a sacred inheritance embedded in Torah, liturgy, and collective Jewish memory.
Co-edited by Dr. Ora Horn Prouser and Rabbi Menachem Creditor, this Haggadah supplement gathers essays, drashot, poems, prayers, liturgical readings, and artwork that explore what it means for a people shaped by exile and wandering to remember, and to respond. Drawing deeply on Jewish texts and spiritual imagination, this most recent offering in the Academy for Jewish Religion (AJR) holiday supplement collection emphasizes immigration as a core Jewish value rooted in the commandment to love the stranger and the enduring declaration: “We were strangers in the land of Egypt.”
Designed to accompany the Passover Seder, these offerings enrich the ritual experience with theological depth and ethical clarity. Rather than political argument, this volume offers sacred reflection, asking how ancestral memory forms Jewish identity, empathy, and responsibility in every generation.
At the Seder table, as we recount our journey from constriction to freedom, In Every Generation calls us to recognize the stranger’s story within our own, and to let that recognition shape the Jewish future.
