HIAS Haggadah (HIAS)
Global Justice Haggadah (AJWS)
Love and Justice Haggadah (JFREJ)
The Velveteen Rabbi’s Haggadah (Rabbi Rachel Barenblat)
Liberation Haggadah (Bend the Arc)
DC Avodah Alumni Haggadah (Compiled by Julia Kann)
The Stonewall Seder (Congregation B’nai Jeshurun)
Jewish Labor Committee Haggadah
A Haggadah for the Recovery Community (Adapted by Rebecca Bass)
DIY Haggadah (Jewish Emergent Network)
Hunger Seder (Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger)
Earth Justice Haggadah (COEJL, RAC, Interfaith Power and Light)
A Queer Passover Haggadah (Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life, NYU)
“And We Cry Out” Haggadah & Supplement (JUFJ)
Uyghur Freedom Seder Haggadah (Jewish World Watch)
The Other Side of the River, the Other Side of the Sea (T’ruah)
Racial Justice & Inclusivity Haggadah (Be’chol Lashon and USF Jewish Studies and Social Justice Program)
A Haggadah for a Conscious Passover Seder (Jewish Veg)
Moses of the City Photobook Haggadah (Luis Burgos)
Back Together Haggadah (Emilia Diamant)
Resisting Tyrants Since Pharaoh – T’ruah
Pesach Reading Inserts – RAC
Signs and Wonders video series – CCAR
Haggadah Supplement – JCA
Freedom to Thrive Haggadah Supplement – JFREJ
Urchatz: A Deeper Dive into Handwashing at the Seder – Moving Traditions
Fragments – Emor
Brokenness & Repair: Antisemitism Haggadah – Carolina Jews for Justice
Yirah: Fear, Awe, and the Climate Crisis – Dayenu
The Four Children of Climate Change – reformjudaism.org
A Different Pesach: Ideas for Solo and Small Sedarim
How to Host a Virtual Passover Seder -Hey Alma
Difference Amidst Distance – Repair the World
Sayder from Lab/Shul – Lab/Shul
Compilation of mutual aid resources – Mutual Aid NYC
Next Year in Freedom Haggadah Supplements – Narrow Bridge Candles
Tomato on the Seder Plate – T’ruah
Campus Hunger Project – Challah for Hunger
Bread of Affliction – Repair the World & Hazon
Mazon Fifth Question on Hunger + Videos – Mazon
Midwifing Resistance – T’ruah
Pesach Seder Handbook – Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
The Five Women of the Exodus – NCJW
10 Plagues of Housing Injustice – Repair the World
Refugee Supplement for the Seder – T’ruah
A Second Seder Plate – Jewish World Watch
Uyghur Seder Insert – Jewish World Watch
Opening the Door at Passover – T’ruah
Haggadah – PJ Library
Illustrated Journeys: Reimagining the Seder Plate – HIAS
Passover Activity Book – Ekar Farm
Kveller Seder – Kveller
Seder for Young Children haggadah – Haggadot.com
Seder Plate Symbols music video
BimBam.com, Interactive videos for ages 3-10
I Left With Moses, Interactive videos for ages 8-12
Abuelita’s Secret Matzahs, Picture book
A Persian Passover, Picture book
Nachshon, Who Was Afraid to Swim, Picture book
The Longest Night, Poem
Afikomen Mambo, Book and song for young children
Senesh Haggadah – Hannah Senesh Community Day School
Pour Out Your Wrath: A Ritual by Queer and Trans Jewish Youth of Color – Keshet
My Keshet Seder: An Interactive, Nontraditional Seder Plate to Celebrate LGBTQ+ Communities – Keshet
An Orange on the Seder Plate: Honoring LGBTQ+ and feminist Jewish history and future – Keshet
Dayeinu: Being LGBTQ+ And Enough – Keshet
Four Cups for Liberation – Keshet
Passover Supplement: Latinx Edition/Suplemento de Pésaj: Edición Latina – Jewtina
Passover Around the World – The Jewish Language Project
Chad Gadya – The Jewish Language Project
The Four People – The Jewish Multiracial Network & Repair the World
We Were Slaves Insert – Bechol Lashon and Repair the World
The symbolic items we choose to place on our seder plates are just as diverse as the people that make up the Jewish diaspora. You might include items based on your identities, the causes you care about, family traditions, and even your dietary commitments. The resources above teach us about a multitude of seder additions, but we wanted to share the intention behind the non-traditional items depicted on our page AKA Avodah’s seder plate.
Wheat – Matzah, the hard bread the Israelites took with them on the Exodus, is only made of flour and water. It’s unleavened because they didn’t have time to bake properly while fleeing Egypt. It is simultaneously symbolic of our freedom and of our slavery/affliction.
Orange – An orange on the seder plate represents the LGBTQIA+ Jewish community. The orange is segmented, not fragmented. The LGBTQIA+ community has distinct segments, but together, they form a whole. The origin of this symbol is often attributed to Dr. Susannah Heschel who says, “I chose an orange because it suggests the fruitfulness for all Jews when lesbians and gay men are contributing and active members of Jewish life.”
Beet – Many vegans and vegetarians opt to display the “bloody” beet on their seder plate instead of a lamb shank. For a fully plant-based seder, you can swap the egg on your seder plate with a potato or edible flowers to evoke the awakening of spring and growth. Avodah has recently adopted DefaultVeg in our organization. By serving plant-based meals by default, we at Avodah achieve closer alignment with the values we hold dear in Judaism, such as shmirat ha’adamah (protecting the Earth), tza’ar ba’alei chayim (preventing cruelty toward animals), oshek (labor justice), and tikkun olam (repairing the world).
Coffee and Chocolate – Chocolate and coffee are frequently grown in areas where forced labor is prevalent. We include it on our seder plate as a symbol of workers’ rights and to remind us to be mindful of the ways our food choices and consumption impact the environment, society, and the living beings who provide our food.