Passover 2021/Pesach 5781 Resource Guide
Each year, the Jewish social justice field brings messages of liberation and justice to your Passover Seder. As a community rooted in and dedicated to justice, we offer 2021 Passover resources from affiliates of the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable. Enjoy, engage, wrestle, and learn – and share widely. Chag Sameach!
Last year’s resources are available here.
If you have a resource that should be posted here, please email it to info@jewishsocialjustice.org
ALEPH offers a Passover resource bank.
Avodah has a collection of resources for this moment and beyond.
Bend the Arc has created a Zoom Seder Kit and Liberation Haggadah.
Be’chol Lashon offers a variety of resources including a Racial Justice & Inclusivity Haggadah, a reading for Ruth’s cup, and trivia cards.
Carolina Jews for Justice offers Brokenness & Repair, A Seder Insert for Yachatz, the Breaking of the Middle Matzah, which ties to its statewide Antisemitism Listening Project.
The Central Conference of American Rabbis presents Signs and Wonders, a video series of rabbinic conversations on the poetry and prayer of Mishkan HaSeder: A Passover Haggadah.
Ekar Farm has created a Passover Activity Booklet.
HIAS’ Haggadah connects the ancient Passover stories to today’s refugees and the guided exercise in reimagining the Seder plate is appropriate for kids of all ages and adults too.
Jewish Community Action has created this social justice Haggadah supplement.
The Jewish Emergent Network has created a DIY Haggadah.
Jewish World Watch has created the Uyghur Freedom Haggadah and asks people to add cotton balls to their Seder plates, explained in this Haggadah insert.
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice has a Haggadah library.
MAZON has a variety of Passover resources including a Hunger Haggadah, a “Fifth Question,” ecards, and videos from clergy reflecting on Passover, the Seder, and the Exodus story with an anti-hunger lens.
National Council of Jewish Women created The Five Women of the Exodus: A Feminist Supplement about the five women integral to the Passover story who aren't named in the Haggadah.
New Israel Fund published a reissue of the original Israeli Black Panthers Haggadah, 50 years after it was first released.
The Rabbinical Assembly has a number of resources to learn and advocate against human trafficking using the Passover context.
Reconstructing Judaism's Haggadah, A Night of Questions, is available to download for free (hard copies can be purchased) as are these other Seder teachings, rituals, and readings.
Repair the World has created Ten Plagues of Housing Injustice, a Haggadah insert that explores how the pandemic has exacerbated our country’s housing crisis, and posted more information about the issue.
Shamayim: Jewish Animal Advocacy has created an animal welfare Passover guide.
A collaboration among the Union for Reform Judaism, Reform leaders in the US and UK, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the American Conference of Cantors created these short videos. The URJ has provided other resources including Haggadot, Zoom backgrounds, playlists, and more.
T’ruah’s diverse range of Passover resources for the seder and beyond can be downloaded here.