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Unique Haggadot to Enliven Your Passover Seder
Looking for a new Haggadah for this year’s Passover seder? Whether you’re interested in making your Passover celebrations a little more political or a little more magical, we’ve got you covered.
Miriam's Cup: A Supplemental Reading for the Passover Haggadah
For many of us, we look to pay tribute to the girls and women, past and present, who make such important contributions to our lives and to Judaism as a whole. We do this by including Miriam’s Cup in our seder.
There's More to the Haggadah Than Meets the Eye
The Passover Haggadah can be read in the simplest form without much interpretation, but, in fact, the Haggadah is itself interpretation, or midrash.
To Revolt or Not? Deciphering Passover's Secret Code
Because Passover commemorates the liberation of our ancestors from slavery in Egypt, one might think the seder would more likely resemble an ancient Egyptian meal. The seder, in fact, replicates the feast of a later oppressor – the Romans – from reclining, washing hands, beginning with an egg, dipping in salt water, wine libations, and discussions of the afikomen (Greek for “revelry”).
4 Ways to Create Your Most Welcoming Passover Seder Ever
Because Judaism compels us to welcome guests into our “open tent,” it’s important to ensure that your seder is warm, inviting, and audaciously hospitable.
7 Great Haggadot if You Have Young Children at Your Seder
For Passover's ideas to be accessible to even the youngest children, everyone tastes, touches, smells, hears, and sees symbols from the story, using a guide book called a Haggadah.
9 Things to Know About Sukkot
Even though the High Holidays are over, there is still plenty of celebrating to do. Here are nine things to know about Sukkot, the holiday that follows Yom Kippur.
How to Say the Sukkot Blessings and Shake the Lulav
Rabbi Sari Laufer demonstrates how to hold the lulav and etrog, how to say the blessings, and how to wave it for the holiday of Sukkot. View all of the Sukkot blessings.
16 Pumpkin-Centric Jewish Recipes for Fall
Autumn is upon us. Autumn isn’t the best season just because it’s full of Jewish holidays; it’s also the season of delicious pumpkin-flavored foods. Here are ReformJudaism.org’s best pumpkin-themed recipes.