'Radicalized' Hagada Poses Many Queries Hagada texts have been revised and implemented through the ages. In non-observant colonies in Israel specially composed Hagadot have been in use for many years. In most instances, additional material has been supplementary, and the traditional Hagada is in general use. This is not the case with the new Hagada titled "The Freedom Se- der" authored by Arthur I. Was- kow and published by Micah Press in Washington and Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Indeed, this is an entirely "radicalized" Hagada, as author and publishers announce, resorting to such "rabbis," "judges," "pro- phets," and "shofets" as Eldridge Cleaver, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, A. J. Mustc, Ghandi • Hannah Arendt, Henry David Thoreau, Martin Huber and Thomas Jefferson. Waskow describes his book as both radical and religious. "It is unusual for a radical book in that it stands within the religious tradi- tion, praises God, and works through ritual and ceremony," he says. "On the other hand, it is un- usual for a religious book in that it is openly and joyfully radical." Waskow represents the National Jewish Organizing Project and is a member of Jews for Urban Jus- tice. young Washingtontians com- mitted to ending racism. He is also a- resident fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington. While Waskow claims that his Hagada fuses the traditional with a modern celebration of the need for liberation from war, racism and poverty, the text contains only the Ma Nishtana in Hebrew and the Had Gadya is transliterated in English. But there is really little of the traditional in it. The new Hagada includes trans- literated prayers, the "Im EM Ani Li . . ." and several other Hebrew selections Latinized. But these certainly do not represent reten- tion of the traditional Hagada text. Nevertheless, when the first in- terracial Freedom Seder was con- ducted by Waskow in the heart of Washington's ghetto last year, the participants included Rabbi Bal- four Brickner of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and Rabbi Harold White of. Ameri- can University, both of whom officated. Indeed, this new Hagada is a timely document in the quest for justice, but its use could be rec- ommended for a third seder. Sub- stitution for the traditional Hagada carries with it menacing implica- tions for the family seder that should retain its traditional values. It is against Such danger that this reviewer must warn in comment- ing upon the new book. —P. S. Rabbinical Alliance Terms Ilagadah as Offensive, Without Rabinical Authority NEW YORK (JTA) — The Rab- binical Alliance of America. an Orthodox agency, denounced as "offensive" the "Freedom Seder: A New Hagadah for Passover," written by Arthur Waskow, a Washington Jewish activist. Rabbi Abraham Gross, presi- dent of the group, declared that the Hagada was a religious work and the Waskow did not meet the requirements for changes in such a work for which "one must be Man is preeminently a creative Specializing in an authority in Jewish Law and animal, predestined to strive con- base his desires on firmly-rooted sciously for an object and to en- tradition." gage in engineering — that is, in- For Weddings, Bar Mitzva's and other special occasions. Rabbi Gross said Waskow had cessantly and eternally to make the right to issue a book drawing new roads, wherever they may FRANK BASCH 474-7768 a parallel between the Jewish lead.—Feodor Dostoevski. liberatioin from Egyptian slavery and the modern civil rights strug- gle. However, he added, "it is most offensive for Mr. Waskow to call his • book a Hagada and Everywhere Call Anywhere to make "radical changes" without rabbinic authority. The rabbi add- YESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAH ed that the author had added "in- 15751 W. 10 1 /2 Mile Rd. sult to injury" by incorporating in his Hagada statements from SPECIAL ISRAEL TOURS AVAILABLE Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver Eve. 862-0963 and writer Hannah Arendt among 353-6750 others who have a record of "anti- Semitic public remarks." COLORED MOVIES TRAVELING Mizrachi Function to Honor Leadership, Israel Tourism Leaders in the Zionist move- ment the movement for the adv-,ice:uca, of :ourism to Israel will be acclaimed at a special meet- mg of Mizrachi- !I a poe I Hamiz raeli of Detroit called for 10:30 1 a.m. Sunday. at Young Israel of Greenfield l•-• the movement's president, Philip Rabbi Gordon Stollman. Convening members of the board of directors and friends of Mizrachi, Stollman announced the need for increased tourism to Is- rael. At the same time, the meeting will honor Mr. and Mrs. David J. 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