Rave Reviews for the J-Street Haggadah!

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By Yuval Weiss

Last Updated 4/24/2016 at 1:00 PM

Washington: With the completion of many a successful Passover Seder this year, the streets are buzzing with rave reviews for J-Street’s Haggadah.  The Daily Freier wandered around Washington’s Food Co-Ops and Non-Profits until it got enough quotes to finish the article and go home to nap.

Code Pink web designer Moonwind Epstein enjoyed the Haggadah’s new look. “The old Haggadah just felt dated.  Like it was 3,000 years old or something. So I really like the new Four Questions: Why is this Iran Deal Better Than All Other Iran Deals?

Saying that he “liked that there was a message“, Dylan Murray-Levinson-Smith, an intern at the New Israel Fund, extolled the new Haggadah’s educational aspect. “It’s been a long time since Hebrew School at the JCC, so it’s no surprise that I forgot that one of the plagues was named ‘Bibi.Good times.

Even though local dude “Max” knows “a lot” about Judaism, he too learned something new at his Second Night Seder.  “The part where Moses gathers the Israelites and tells them that any entry into the Promised Land will first require “Justice for Jericho” and a “Right of Return for the Canaanites” just really moved me.”

While J-Street is proud of its Haggadah, it promises improvements for next year (not in Jerusalem!) to include addressing the “Root Causes” of Pharaoh’s grievances with the Israelites.

 

 

 

 

6 thoughts on “Rave Reviews for the J-Street Haggadah!”

  1. OK on Jericho and the dispossessed Canaanites, but what of the drowned Egyptians?
    Closing the Red Sea on them was water-boarding on a genocidal scale!!

  2. It’s the ZOA Haggadah I enjoyed the most this year. The seder is so much faster when you eliminate the four questions or any questioning for that matter. I also loved that the only one allowed to speak was the character of Mort Klein. My one critique was Egypt was hardly mentioned. Who knew Passover was just about the Amelikites.

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