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Rabbi Avi Weiss of the Or-
thodox Hebrew Institute of
Riverdale in New York
agrees.
"The Haggadah says, 'As
we were redeemed in the
past, so too should we be
redeemed in the future.' To
re-experience the redemp-
tion from Egypt and the
hope of the redemption to
come in the future (ie: the
coming of Elijah), it's our
responsibility to introduce
issues of meaning to us in
the present."
"There are many Egypts
we face today," Rabbi Weiss
said, referring specifically to
anti-Semitism in the Soviet
Union, Ethiopia and the
problem of AIDS. He called
the Exodus a microcosm "of
a millennium of enslave-
ment and redemption. I
think that the term Egypt is
an elastic term for all ge-
nerations."
CLAL agrees that the
predicament of Soviet Jews
and the remembrance of the
Holocaust remain the two
most important issues to be
remembered during the
Passover seder.
This year, they have
issued a new version of the
famous song, "Go Down,
Moses." They call it the
"Freedom Song," and it
begins: "When Israel was on
Russian soil, Let our people
go." The song has been
distributed to yeshivot and
synagogues throughout the
country, and the organiza-
tion hopes that it will be
recited at many Passover
sedarim this year.
"The process of contem-
porizing the seder is an in-
trinsic part of the Hag-
gadah," explained Orthodox
Rabbi Irving Greenberg,
founder and president of
CLAL. "It is a way of apply-
ing the Exodus model to
your own life."
However, he added, "the
bottom line is the judgment
and taste with which you do
it."
This is exactly the point,
says Rabbi Philip Hiat,
assistant to the president at
the Reform branch's Union
of American Hebrew Con-
gregations. "Different corn-
muni t e s observe the
Passover holiday within the
framework of the customs
and rituals of that commun-
ity, and each community
within the context of their
belief have established their
own Haggadot."
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For A
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