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Ensuring the Liberation of All People: A Passover Message

We’d like to share this video message for Passover 2021 from Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., the president of Reconstructing Judaism.

Posted on March 23, 2021 by Rabbi Deborah Waxman Ph.D.
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May We All Be Liberated Soon

Usually, on Passover, we ask “How is this night different from all other nights?”. This year, many of us are asking, “How does this Passover resemble any we’ve ever experienced?” While social distancing has seemingly changed everything, Passover is still about telling the story of going from oppression to freedom.

Posted on April 3, 2020 by Rabbi Deborah Waxman Ph.D.
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Strange Thoughts: A New Take on Loving the Stranger

To truly live justly, we need to move out of our comfort zones and embrace unfamiliar ideas and habits of mind. 

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Aurora Mendelsohn
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Multicultural Haroset Recipes

Recipes for Passover haroset from several cultural traditions

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Amy Klein
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A Hasidic Lens on Parashat Bo

In this short talk, Rabbi Lester Bronstein brings 18th and 19th-century Hasidic thought into dialogue with contemporary Reconstructionist theology.

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Rabbi Les Bronstein
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At The Sea: A Selection of Midrashim

This selection of midrashim on the crossing of the Red Sea provides a window into the tradition’s ethical concerns surrounding this well-known story.

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Rabbi Toba Spitzer
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Twelve Years A Slave: A Passover Resource

This printable resource pairs selected quotes from Solomon Northup’s autobiographical memoir, “12 Years a Slave,” with quotes from the Exodus and other Jewish texts.

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Rabbi Maurice Harris
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A  Passover Blessing for People of Many Backgrounds Who Journey with Us

This is a short Passover reading that expresses appreciation for people of backgrounds and identities other than Judaism. It would work well in a community seder, as well as home seders. 

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Rabbi Maurice Harris
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The Midwives of Exodus: An Interfaith Text Study

An easily-accessible text study about the ethnic ambiguity that the Torah presents us with regarding the midwives who refused to obey Pharaoh's orders. 

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Rabbi Maurice Harris
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Making Pesakh Personal

This study sheet provides a variety of sources on the spiritual practices surrounding Passover (Pesakh).

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Rabbi Toba Spitzer
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Next Year in Jerusalem?

A resource for exploring values and commitments around Israel, seen through the lens of the phrase “Next year in Jerusalem” at the close of the Passover seder

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Leslie Brenner
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Exodus in Our Time

A creative meditation on liberation from Egypt

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Sheri Lindner
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My Questions for This Pesach Season

Passover conversations with non-Jews who are part of Jewish communities and families

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Elsie R. Stern Ph.D.
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