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Theme Seders

 

The traditional Passover seder tells a story of liberation and freedom. Theme seders take this core narrative and apply it contemporary struggles for equality and basic human rights.

Seder Lichvod Yetzi'at Meitzarim

A coming-out ceremony based upon the Passover seder to celebrate and honor liberation from the mitzrayim (narrow places) of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender secrecy [more]

Found In: Coming Out , Theme Seders

Tags: LGBTIQ, mi sheberakh

B'Chol Dor Vador: In Every Generation

How a Jewish woman becomes "free" [more]

Found In: Parts of the Seder, Theme Seders

Tags: maggid

Dayeinu: If We Speak Truthfully

A modern dayeinu from the Ma'yan [more]

Found In: Parts of the Seder, Theme Seders

Tags: dayeinu, Tamara Cohen

Dayeinu (It Would Have Been Enough)

A renditon of the traditional Passover song, Dayeinu, from the perspective of Jewish women [more]

Found In: Parts of the Seder, Theme Seders

Tags: dayeinu

Dayeinu of Our Biblical Mothers and Sisters

Recounts Dayeinu from the perspective of the biblical matriarchs. [more]

Found In: Parts of the Seder, Theme Seders

Tags: dayeinu

Recognizing Abused Women

Acknowledges the plagues of battered women and children who live within our midst [more]

Found In: Parts of the Seder, Healing from Trauma & Abuse, Theme Seders

Tags: ten plagues

The Four Daughters

A reading placing the traditional four children in the context of four daughters and their attitude toward a women's seder [more]

Found In: Parts of the Seder, Theme Seders

Tags: four children, Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell, Tamara Cohen

The Four Children

Questions of the wise, irreverent and assimilated daughter and the son who is unable to ask [more]

Found In: Parts of the Seder, Theme Seders

Tags: four children

Four Daughters: Wise, Wicked, Simple, and Silent

A Passover reading using four daughters instead of the traditional four sons [more]

Found In: Parts of the Seder, Theme Seders

Tags: four children

Four Modern Questions

Four thought-provoking questions about women's liberation from the Baltimore Federation's Women's Seder [more]

Found In: Theme Seders

Tags: four questions