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Broner, the author of A Weave of
Women and other books, has taught at
Columbia, UCLA and, most recently,
Sarah Lawrence. She is professor emerita
in the department of English at Wayne
State University, where she received both
her bachelor's and master's degrees.
She also is a skilled storyteller, and
here she shares many stories: the cele-
bration of her 50th wedding anniver-
sary with a second wedding ceremony;
a peace ritual between the daughters
of Sarah and Hagar in the Sinai
desert; her moves to different homes;
her long connection with the late
Bella Abzug, one of her seder sisters.
She sees the book as a kind of "spir-
itual recipe book," outlining the
"ingredients" women must arrange in
order to made a holiday. "I think of
holidays as being very domestic,
recipes as something we all under-
stand." She can imagine women turn-
ing to the book before a holiday, to

She seems to take
herself, her Judaism,
quite seriously,
leavened with a
joyousness, warmth
and ongoing search
for deeper meaning.

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see what they can do to add on to
Broner's script "and make it wonder-
ful, to make the holiday their own."
After many years of living in loft
spaces in downtown Manhattan, the
ever adventurous Broner and her hus-
band, the artist Robert Broner, are res-
idents of New York City's Upper West
Side, living communally with an ana-
lyst. "That has been one of the most
thrilling things of my life," she says.
This Passover, the women's seder
Broner inaugurated will enter its 25th
season. The continuity is very mean-
ingful, she says_ Each year they change
the theme, and this Passover they will
look at what has happened in 25 years.
She remembers the amount of boo-
ing she encountered when she first read
the seder in public. Now, the Haggada
she put together is used widely, and
women's seders are commonplace, not
shocking. "I'm so optiMistic that it
only takes a generation for things to
change." She laughs, merrily.

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