Enriching Your Seder

Resources

Is It Time To Add Borscht To Our Seder Plates?

In this article from BJ's Michael Whitman and Rabbi Rebecca Weintraub, learn how the foods on our seder plates can represent the injustices of diverse communities around the world.

Voices From the Ukraine Crisis

As Ukrainian citizens face tremendous suffering, we call attention to their stories in this seder supplement from JDC.

A Special Reading for Ukraine's Jews

The JDC encourages us to remember our Ukrainian brethren as we reflect on the Lechem Oni, the bread of our affliction, during the seder.

Making Your Seder More Inclusive

Pesah is a time when guests are invited to sit at our seder table (even if it’s virtual) and we want to make sure everyone enjoys themselves. These tips will help you make your seder accessible for all.

Ur'khatz: Healing Waters at the time of COVID-19

Handwashing has taken on a new significance in the past few years. This ritual invokes water as a source of healing and strength.

The Transformation of Pharaoh, Moses and God

Krista Tippett and Avivah Zornberg walk through the Exodus story at the heart of Pesah, discovering that it’s a cargo of hidden stories and telling the messy, strange, redemptive truth who we are.

Passover Seder with the Four Sons

Enjoy this retelling of these four famous characters—wise, wicked, simple, and the one who doesn't know how to ask questions—set in Moscow.

Racial Justice and Inclusivity Haggadah

This haggadah from Bechol Lashon reminds us that the things that too often divide us also have the power to unite us, exploring each aspect of the seder with empathy.

Ma Nishtana: A Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Ally Haggadah

This haggadah follows the traditional structure of the Pesah seder but contains readings and discussion questions pertaining to GLBT identity and life.

The Four Children: Teaching the Next Generation

This reframing of the Four Children focuses on justice and activism, taking the seder's pursuit from oppression to justice out of history and into the present.

The Stories We Tell Again and Again

Every year at Pesah and each day in our prayers, we tell the story of our exodus from Egypt. We are supposed to tell it and tell it again; to expand on it, and linger in it. What do you have to add to the story?

Afikomen Hunt: Now and Later—An AJWS Passover Reading for Children Ages 7-11

This resource from AJWS encourages children to consider the ways they can help in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, as well as helps us explore how to address the long-term needs of these communities.

Mental Health Seder Plate

This resource from the Blue Dove Foundation shares the symbols of the seder plate reimagined as tools that can be used to protect our mental health.

Camp Passover Activity Book

Bring a little bit of summer camp to your seder. This activity book features creative games and fun!

Share Your Story, Inspire Resilience

Taking inspiration from the Israelites' resilience, Moving Traditions offers this interactive ritual for telling family stories of adversity after the hunt for the Afikomen.

Seder Discussion Questions for Teens

Dive into these seder discussion questions, geared just for teens!

HIAS Haggadah

HIAS's hagaddah puts the reader in the mindset of those who went out from Egypt, so that we may rise up renewed in our commitment to stand together as a thriving American Jewish movement supporting today’s refugees and asylum seekers.

Bread of Affliction: Matzah, Hunger, and Race: Repair the World and Hazon

Contemplate issues of food insecurity and our role as Jews in addressing this world-wide problem.

The Plagues Project: Jewish Live

Expand the way you think about plagues, both Biblical and historical, with more than 30 unique perspectives from Jewish educators world-wide. Find more than 30 videos, each offering unique insights on the subject by drawing on 3,000 years of commentary and scholarship.

New Haggadot Options

Explore downloadable versions of haggadot for all audiences, including a Pesah meditation guide, 10-minute hagaddah, and a meme-filled Schitt's Creek haggadah.