Seder celebrates courageous
Jewish women, both biblical
and modern.

her sons to become learned in Torah.
Today we celebrate as women, and
join men in seeking the wisdom to
understand thoroughly the meaning
he courage of Moses' sister,
of Pesach."
Miriam, the outstretched
This year's seder, which took place
arms of his mother,
March 14, attracted about 450
Yocheved, the spiritual
women and girls to Adat Shalom
strength of his wife, Zipporah —
Synagogue.
these are not the
Among them
focus of the tradi-
were
three visi-
tional Passover
tors
from
the
seder.
Central
Galilee,
But, for the
Detroit's
past five years,
Partnership
hundreds of
2000 sister
metro Detroit
region, Liora
women have read
Lurie, Michal
the stories of
Nadler and
these and other
Judith
Nadiv.
valiant Jewish
All
three
are
heroines at the
community
Jewish Federation
activists, and
of Metropolitan
each had a role
Detroit's annual
in planning the
Women's Seder.
Denise
Anchill
of
Farmington
Hills
first
women's
The seder affirms
pours wine for Allison Sweet ofWest
•seder
in the
the rights of
Bloomfield.
Partnership
women to learn
region.
on an equal foot-
Although the Haggadah for
ing with men and to participate in
Federation's Women's Seder was writ-
the rituals of Passover as full-fledged
ten nearly six years ago, it evolves
members of the Jewish community.
from year to year, said Paula Glazier,
"Traditionally, it was assumed that
president of Federation's Women's
a woman had little need to know,"
says a passage from the Women's Seder Campaign and Education
Department.
Haggadah. "Her most honored posi-
"We work with the leader and what-
tion was to enable her husband and

Singing the Four Questions are Emily Kaplan, 14, of Farmington Hills; Alli
Pilcowitz, 13, of Bloomfield Hills; and Rachel Gorosh, 6, ofWest Bloomfield.

DIANA LIEBERMAN
Copy Editor/Education Writer

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Nadine Aaron ofWest Bloomfield claps along to the music.

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