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On behalf of everyone at the Avodah Institute for Social Change, allow us to wish you and your loved ones a Passover filled with celebration, learning, and a renewed commitment to collective liberation!
Avodah has collected Haggadot and Passover resources from our partners and allies in our social justice work. In addition to the resources compiled below, we invite you to use these materials to help foster dialogue, lead prayers, and build community during this holiday of liberation.
Recommendations
Podcast
Judaism Unbound: The Freedom Seder
Rabbi Arthur Waskow discusses his journey to the 1969 Freedom Seder in this episode of Judaism Unbound Podcast, sharing lessons of the exodus as a story that encompasses many narratives and peoples.
REFLECTIVE EXERCISES
Counting the Omer
Mitsui Collective’s collection of activities, meditations, and guided movement for each day of the Omer is a beautiful respite and invitation to pause and reconnect to ourselves, this season, and each other.
Poem
Looking Toward Pesach
Rabbi Yael Levy’s poem invites us to contemplate our relationship to growth, imagination, and change in light of Passover and the spring season.
Article
The Torah Case for Reparations
Avodah Institute faculty member Aryeh Bernstein connects the Passover story of Jewish liberation to today’s case for reparations.
