Passover
2012 Passover Materials:
How many slaves made your seder? Play this interactive game with your guests to find out how many slaves produced the items on your table. RHR-NA has partnered with SlaveryFootprint to create this Passover activity. Find out the slavery footprint of your seder. Ask the Four Questions of modern–day slavery. Take action to end the atrocity of human trafficking.
And place a tomato on your seder plate to honor the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, an organization of farmworkers who are working to end modern-day slavery and other abusive conditions in Florida’s tomato fields. RHR-NA is proud to partner with the CIW. This year, the #tomatorabbis helped persuade Trader Joe's to buy slave-free tomatoes. Download this Hagaddah supplement and put a slave-free tomato on your seder plate.
Why Don't We End Pesach with a Seder?: A D'var Torah for Pesach 2012/5772 by Rabbi Jill Jacobs.
Additional resources include Fair Trade Judaica’s Passover materials (including the petition for Kosher for Passover Fair Trade chocolate) and the Hagaddah supplement from RHR in Israel. Download our Passover resources today.
2011 Passover Materials:
Each year, as we tell the story of our ancestors' enslavement and redemption, we move through time from the past to the present to the future. We look to the past to help us understand the commitment to the stranger in our midst, because we were strangers in Mitzrayim. In the present, we see ourselves as though we were slaves. And we pray for the future when we say "Next year in Jerusalem." But while our own slavery is in the past, it is very much the present reality for millions of people around the world. More than 27 million people live as slaves today. Slave-made goods are present in many of the products we buy. And human trafficking is not just a problem overseas. The United States is both a destination for slavery and a source, as American citizens are trafficked for sex and labor. As we tell our story of slavery, we must tell the story of modern enslavement as well. RHR-NA has created table cards for your seder with four stories of modern slavery (part 1)(part 2).
2010 Passover Materials:
Rabbis for Human Rights – North America is please to present a variety of resources for your Passover celebration. This collection of materials focuses on the sad reality that for millions, slavery is not yet history. We invite and encourage you to use this “Feast of Our Freedom” to both learn and teach about modern-day slavery and human trafficking. Please print and use them at your Seders, in your synagogues, classrooms and beyond. We would like to thank everyone who contributed materials for this packet.- Bound Together: Contemporary Slavery and Global Poverty by Rabbi Steve Gutow
- A Passover Sermon by Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater
- Pesach and Slavery Then and Now by Rabbi Gilah Langer
- A Slavery Fact Sheet by Abby Cohen
- The Ten Plagues by Abby Cohen
- The Four Children by Rabbi Gilah Langer and David Arnow
- Four Questions by Abby Cohen
Additional Haggadah Supplements:
- Passover and Human Rights: Interfaith Perspectives: December 10, 2008, marked 60 years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This remarkable document, which was a direct response to the barbarism of the Holocaust and the Second World War, affirms the inherent rights of each human being. Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars were asked to reflect on how our faiths relate to the values of Passover and its imperative for tikkun olam, the repair of the world. Each of their statements is followed by a series of questions. We invite you to read one or more of the statements, and then discuss the questions.
- Passover, Gaza and Human Rights: Rabbis for Human Rights-North America also created rituals for your seder about the IDF's Chief Rabbi's booklet "Go Fight My War."
- Who Sits With Us At Our Table : Created by Rabbis for Human Rights in Israel.
- Next Year May We Be Free: Discussion Questions for Your Seder by Rabbi Ed Feld and Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster.
- Haggadah l'Yom Zechuyot Shel Adam: A Human Rights Haggadah: Rabbis Margaret Holub and Sheila Weinberg wrote a Human Rights Haggadah for Rabbis for Human Rights. The Haggadah was edited by Gilah Langner and recently published in the journal, Kerem. You can think of using the Hagadah in a variety of settings: a special service in synagogue, kiddush following Shabbat services or at a family gathering at home.
- Passover Economic Justice Hagaddah: This Hagaddah on economic human rights for use in the Pesach Seder was brought together and edited as a Shalom Center project by Lee Moore, on behalf of, and for distribution by, Rabbis for Human Rights North America and Rabbis for Human Rights Israel in 2003.
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