Passover Resources

Passover materials written, edited, or recommended by Bronfmanim and faculty.

Books/ Hard-copy Haggadot:

• NEW Hostages and Missing Families Forum Haggadah
• NEW The Israeli Haggadah (in Hebrew), by Rabbi Mishael Zion (Faculty & Staff 2012 – 2017)
• The Bronfman Haggadah, by Edgar M. Bronfman and illustrated by Jan Aronson.
• The Women’s Passover Companion: Women’s Reflections on the Festival of Freedom and The Women’s Seder Sourcebook: Rituals and Readings for Use at the Passover Seder, edited by R. Sharon Cohen Anisfeld (Faculty for many years!), Tara Mohr and Catherine Spector.
• The New American Haggadah, edited by Jonathan Safran Foer (’93), with commentary by Daniel Handler (’87), and translations by Nathan Englander, commentary by Jeffrey Goldberg, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, and Nathaniel Deutsch.
• Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights?: The Four Questions Around the World, by Ilana Kurshan (Fellow ’95, Faculty ’09, ’10, ’11).
• The Passover Haggadah: A Biography, by R. Vanessa Ochs (Faculty ’12, ’20; Parent ’01); tells the story of the Haggadah, from its emergence in antiquity as an oral practice to its vibrant proliferation today.
• Mishkan HaSeder – An innovative, new poetry Haggadah by Jessica Greenbaum (Parent ‘15), poet and co-editor. 
• I Love Bread: A Passover Tragedy by David Zvi Kalman (‘04); illustrated by and for children, tells the story of one bread-loving child’s struggle with Passover.
• A Night to Remember: The Haggadah of Contemporary Voices, by Rabbi Mishael Zion (Faculty & Staff 2012 – 2017) with Noam Zion.

Online Resources:

• NEW Across the Divide: Tips for Hard Conversations at the Seder Table – From JTS
• NEW The Israeli Haggadah: English supplement, by Rabbi Mishael Zion (Faculty & Staff 2012 – 2017)
• NEW From Everyone Counts
  • “Let Our People Go”: The Power of Being an Upstander – What makes an effective upstander? Does one need to be a public leader in order to be an upstander? How might we find inspiration from the upstanders of the Passover story to become upstanders to help the hostages?
  • Bringing the Hostages to Your Seder: Seder Supplement 
  • When the Four Children Aren’t There to Ask Questions at the Seder – Based on the traditional “Four Children” of the Haggadah, and the ritual of the “Four Questions”, this unit provides suggestions for ways we might adopt the question-asking element of the Seder to provoke timely, thoughtful questions and discussion at our Seder this year.
• NEW From David Zvi Kalman ’04
  • “How to think about a haggadah that you don’t like“
  • “The Shocking Creativity of the Kibbutz Haggadah“
• Uri L’TZedek Food and Justice Haggadah Supplement, edited by Adina Gerver (’96), with commentary by David Wolkenfeld (’97) and his wife Sarah, Avi Orlow (’91) and Josh Feigelson (Faculty ’11). Features essays, insights and action to unite food, social justice, and ethical consumption.
• On This Very Day, One Pesach Later: A Passover Reader – A printable compilation to accompany us in a time of isolation. Curated by 2015 Fellows Sofia Freudenstein and Lavi Teitelbaum, and with contributions by Rena Yehuda Newman (’15) and Leah Oppenzato (’91).
• Judaism Unbound Passover Resources – From Dan Libenson (Parent ‘20, Faculty) and the team that brought you Judaism Unbound.
• Don’t forget about our BronfTalks: Passover Cleaning in the Age of OCD, and A Memorable Seder in Memorable Times and Crafting a Haggadah for a Virtual Seder from 2020.
• You can customize your own haggadah using the Sefaria template tool (co-founded by Brett Lockspeiser ’99 and Joshua Foer ’99)  – take a look at the Ashkenazi Haggadah or the Edot Hamizrach Haggadah.
• Reboot Plastover: An Exodus from Plastic Waste – Access a digital toolkit, “10 Plagues of Plastic,” to kickstart a sustainable change for you and our world.
• JIMENA’s Sephardic and Mizrahi Passover and Mimouna Guide
• Power Up Pesach – Workshops to help power through and step into Pesach feeling invigorated and fulfilled, not entirely depleted. (Shared by Jodi Fried ‘05.)
• BPI Passover Haggadah Supplement – Sponsored by the Bard Prison Initiative, this supplement “aims to encourage Seder participants to debate the meaning of freedom, the place of incarceration in our society, and the value of learning, study, and education.” (Shared by Laura Liebman ’88)

Seders:

• A fun and diverse and beginner-friendly-but-something-for-all seder from the HIR-Bayit. Each year the Bayit hosts over 400 people for the Passover Seder in Riverdale, NY. (Shared by Steven Exler ’97)