beautiful commen MIT explaining a
Hebrew word or a section of the seder.
"To answer why this night is , differ-
ern- we begin the first telling of the
story of slavery and redemption. Here
the traditional text alternates with the
imagined voices of Shifra and Puah,
the Hebrew midwives whose heroism
opens the Exodus story."
Innovative rituals are also collected
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This Haggadah originated at a feminist
seder and was popularized by refs. maga-
zine. "In small enclaves," the author
writes, "women began meeting at holiday
time [in the 1970s] and inserting them-
selves into text or composing new text."
What emerged is this thin volume that
contains a lot of good poetry (in modern
Hebrew and English) and that celebrates
women's roles in the Exodus from Egypt.
But as a manual to conduct the
seder, this does not serve as a
Haggadah. It follows neither the plan
of the Haggadah nor its text. It is per-
haps best to use The Women's Haggadah
in conjunction with another more pri-
mary manual. However, bear in mind
that its rich source of additional read-
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sion for the women present.
Like an Orange on a Seder Plate:
Our Lesbian Haggadah, by Ruth
Simkin. Mass Market Paperback.
Simkin's Haggadah, so named to evoke
the exclusion women have felt in more
traditional Judaism, is a primer for cel-
ebrating a gay, woman-centered
Passover. (A woman once asked a rabbi
why women were not allowed on the
bimah or altar in more traditional syn-
agogues. The rabbi responded that
women belong on the bimah like an
orange belongs on a seder plate. Hence
the supposed origin of that now ubiq-
uitous and potent image).
The Haggadah is the result of the
author's efforts to "make up meaningful
rituals which incorporate the old and
the new, the traditional and the radical,
the familiar and the courageous."
Compiled by Jonathan Groner,
Rebecca Gutterman, Rabbi Abby
Susland and Judith Bolton-Fasman.
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