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new, free service that has
started in Los Angeles allows
computer users to publish
their own, unique Haggadah for
Passover.
Users can upload personalized tex-
tual and graphic elements that reflect
one's family-religious-philo-
sophical-political prefer-
ences for celebrating
each seder, or
combine ele-
ments with tra-
ditional options
(clips).
Haggadot.
corn turns the
Haggadah into
a communal,
creative activ-
ity by enabling self-
publishers to share their
clips for everyone on the site
to use. People within a group may also
collaborate to create a Haggadah.
Haggadot.com is a nonprofit ven-
ture created by Eileen Levinson, a Los
Angeles designer and artist. The idea
emerged when Levinson was a graphic

design graduate student at California
Institute of the Arts.
"Haggadot.com is for today's Jews,
who may or may not be defined by
the traditional boxes of a particular
denomination, synagogue or organiza-
tion:' said Levinson.
In addition to English, Haggadot.
corn contains material in
many languages, including
Hebrew, Italian, German,
Yiddish and Ladino.
Just a few of the
possibilities available
on the Web site are:
• Pieces from
a feminist
Reconstructionist
version co-existing
with selections from a
traditional Haggadah from
the 1500s.
• Families consisting of Ashkenazi
and Sephardi Jews who can now include
both traditions in one Haggadah.
•A Haggadah with the central theme
of the seder night, the Four Questions,
available in such languages as Ladino
(medieval Spanish) and Luganda (the

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•A Haggadah with an English trans-
lation of the seder's concluding song,
"Chad Gadya" (One Goat) with a trans-
lation based on the version retold by
the Igbo people of Nigeria.
Any visitor to the site can look at the
offerings. Registration is required when
someone wants to create a personalized
Haggadah.
ROI Community of Young Jewish
Innovators, the signature project of
philanthropist Lynn Schusterman, pro-
vided the seed money for Levinson to
produce and test Haggadot.com's beta
site last year.
"Haggadot.com works like an on-line
scrapbook for Jews of all backgrounds,"
Levinson said. "It is the first Web site
to allow users to exchange unique,
non-copyrighted elements that enable
them to create and print personalized
haggadot. Users can download a single,
supplemental text for their seder, mix
and match pieces for an entirely new
Haggadah and promote their organiza-
tion with a biography page, thanks to
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