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This New Reform Haggadah Combines Liturgy, Poetry, and Art

C.E. Harrison

The Central Conference for American Rabbis (CCAR) has published a brand new Haggadah. Mishkan HaSeder combines traditional liturgy with an array of contemporary poetry, as well as abstract illustrations that provide readers with something unique to glean from its pages.

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Choosing Your Purim Costume: How to Avoid Cultural Appropriation, Stereotypes, and Racism

Anita Kuykendall Stoll

Gail Wides

Purim approaches, and like every other holiday we've observed during the pandemic, it will look and be different.

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When You Make People Laugh, You Make People Listen

Lynn Harris

Today, comedy is a national vernacular, a social and cultural force. We communicate in memes. We look to late night to process the news. Good (and even dumb) comedy challenges and connects, activates and affirms.

Pandemic Passover, Take Two: The Long Journey through the Wilderness

Rabbi Rick Jacobs

Last Passover began the urgent quest to reinvent much of Jewish life, highlighting that some of the ways we “do” Judaism needed to be updated. This year has been a powerful catalyst to shifts in how we perform our holy work.

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Lessons from Charoset During a Year of Pandemic

Rabbi Julie Zupan

As we enjoy this year’s sweet charoset, let us cherish and express our gratitude for the essential workers, medical professionals, everyday heroes, and others who provided the sweetness that helped temper the bitters we tasted this year.

This Purim, Make Noise to Protest Modern-Day Hamans

Rabbi David Wirtschafter

We know that religious freedom is not a lesson from ancient stories, but an ongoing quest even today. While many of us are fighting antisemitism in our home countries, we are also in solidarity with the Rohingya people, who have been persecuted for decades.

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“Homeshuling” Under Quarantine: Fun Jewish Videos for Virtual Learning

Rabbi Rebecca Rosenthal and Stephanie Fink

Do you know about all the great Jewish educational videos available from our partners at BimBam? Here are a few ideas for “homeshuling” your kids during this time.

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How to Hold a Passover Seder in the Year of Coronavirus

Jan Zauzmer

While I pray that the coronavirus pandemic will pass over quickly, that turnaround is unlikely to happen by Passover. With the holiday just weeks away – so soon that Manischewitz and Streit’s products are already in markets – now is the time to make backup plans for our seders.

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Digital Content to Enliven Your Passover 2022 Seder

URJ staff and Reform Movement partners

You already know how to host a beautiful, profound, and Jewishly meaningful seder. What you may not yet know, though, is how to re-imagine your usual traditions to incorporate digital content that will enliven this year’s virtual rendition of your seder.

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How to Make Immigration Justice Central to Your Passover Celebration

Dr. Julia Paley

If we are to heed the call of freedom that Passover offers us, we must not close our eyes to the degradation currently taking place right outside our door.

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