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Passover 5772
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Passover is a time to gather with family and friends and celebrate our people's journey out of Egypt. As we come together around the seder table, we take part in traditional rituals and ask four questions to which we attach new meaning each year. We hope you use these resources to enliven and deepen your celebration of Passover. Hag sameah! |
Freedom Torah: Passover Teachings From the JTS Torah Commentary Archives
Enjoy these Passover Torah Commentaries from The Jewish Theological Seminary's Torah Commentary Archives, written by some of the leading figures in the Conservative Movement, including Professor Arnold M. Eisen, chancellor, JTS; Dr. Judith Hauptman, E. Billi Ivry Professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture, JTS; and Dr. Eliezer Diamond, Rabbi Judah Nadich Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS. Each commentary includes discussion questions for use at your seder table and images from the Rare Book Collection of The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary. Available in .pdf and iBook format for the iPad, the iBook version of Freedom Torah includes an image gallery of the famed Prato Haggadah and archival Passover sermons and songs from mid-20th century broadcasts on The Eternal Light radio program.
Download the iBook on your iPad
The Haggadah App
A collaboration between the staff and students of JTS and Melchor Media, the Haggadah App brings the Passover seder into the 21st century. With an introduction and history of the Haggadah from Dr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS; an audio commentary from Sharon Liberman Mintz, curator of Jewish Art, The JTS Library; and a contemporary, alternative approach to the seder from JTS rabbinical student Amichai Lau-Lavie, the Haggadah App will help prepare you to lead a meaningful and memorable seder.
Download the Haggadah App from iTunes
Passover Resources From The Library
Learn more about the Prato Haggadah (ca. 1300), one of the oldest of all illuminated Spanish Haggadot and one of the few unfinished illuminated Hebrew manuscripts. |
Guides to help you clean and prepare for Passover
The Rabbinical Assembly's Guide to Passover 5772
Selections from Rabbi Isaac Klein's 1979 edition of A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice, including the chapters dealing with Passover
Materials to help you prepare for the seder
Chancellor Arnold Eisen's Torah Commentary for Passover
A video recording of author Jonathan Safran Foer speaking at JTS on his New American Haggadah
Creating Lively Seders
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Dr. David Arnow graduated phi beta kappa from Brandeis University and earned a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Boston University in 1982. No longer practicing, he has been an activist in the Jewish community and a writer for many years. Dr. Arnow's many articles on issues of Jewish interest have appeared in Reform Judaism, Conservative Judaism, Judaism, Journal of Jewish Communal Service, Contemporary Judaism, Moment Magazine, Tikkun, Journal of Israeli History, and numerous Jewish newspapers. Listen to a lecture on "Creating Lively Seders," and read the program brochure from this interesting discussion. |
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Dr. Arnow is the author of the new volume Creating Lively Passover Seders: A Sourcebook of Engaging Tales, Texts & Activities, Second Edition, published in 2011, and coeditor of and contributor to My People's Passover Haggadah, 2008. More information and additional resources for Passover can be found at Lively Seders. |
