This is the best Haggadah I’ve seen yet! It took me years to get my relatives to agree to abandon the old Maxwell House one, but I think I’d have to stage an “Occupy Passover” tonight with the 2 or 3 real progressives at the table in order to use any of this one. But from now on when we say, “next year in Jerusalem”, we can say it in the hope that a Haggadah like this will someday be used there as a model for all of us – Jews, Muslims, Christians, people of all religions and atheists and agnostics alike – as we celebrate true freedom in Israel/Palestine for all peoples.
Yonah Fredman
April 9, 2012 4:12 am
I found a mistake in their description of Korech as a sandwich of maror and charoset, in fact, it is marror charoset and matza. Unless they feel that sandwich implies bread and matza is therefore implied, but it was careless of those who came up with this Haggada.
the other interesting thing is the blessing, for pursuing justice. It is pretty and cute, but I never heard of a blessing for fulfilling commandments between humans and other humans, only for commandments of ritual. Although I am not familiar with the innovations of the reform movement regarding liturgy and so maybe it is not so new.
972 had an article regarding freedom and passover and the lack of freedom of the Palestinians and that is the focus of this JVP Haggada. It is not trite, yet it is not really as fresh as we pretend. Although I must concede: justice is never old and anger and rebellion against the lack of justice is never old and so the idea is also fresh, but the inversion of sorts of the liturgy is almost predictable.
This is the best Haggadah I’ve seen yet! It took me years to get my relatives to agree to abandon the old Maxwell House one, but I think I’d have to stage an “Occupy Passover” tonight with the 2 or 3 real progressives at the table in order to use any of this one. But from now on when we say, “next year in Jerusalem”, we can say it in the hope that a Haggadah like this will someday be used there as a model for all of us – Jews, Muslims, Christians, people of all religions and atheists and agnostics alike – as we celebrate true freedom in Israel/Palestine for all peoples.
I found a mistake in their description of Korech as a sandwich of maror and charoset, in fact, it is marror charoset and matza. Unless they feel that sandwich implies bread and matza is therefore implied, but it was careless of those who came up with this Haggada.
the other interesting thing is the blessing, for pursuing justice. It is pretty and cute, but I never heard of a blessing for fulfilling commandments between humans and other humans, only for commandments of ritual. Although I am not familiar with the innovations of the reform movement regarding liturgy and so maybe it is not so new.
972 had an article regarding freedom and passover and the lack of freedom of the Palestinians and that is the focus of this JVP Haggada. It is not trite, yet it is not really as fresh as we pretend. Although I must concede: justice is never old and anger and rebellion against the lack of justice is never old and so the idea is also fresh, but the inversion of sorts of the liturgy is almost predictable.