Passover

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 Read More >

Last year as we were all still very raw after October 7th, and we wondered how we would celebrate Pesach, the “Festival of Freedom” while so many of our people were being held hostage, and while war raged, AJR published this collection of responses to the situation as a supplement to the Haggadah. Representing AJR’s pluralism, the collection represents a variety of approaches and viewpoints.

As we once again approach Pesach, and as we still have too many of our people still held hostage in Gaza, and as the war has not ended, and as we are still very raw, though perhaps somewhat differently, we hope that this supplement will still provide some comfort, some opportunity for thinking, some liturgical support, and some hope for our future.

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