Dear Friends.
With the weatherman threatening to make this a white Passover, I thought I’d give you a few things to think about for your seders this evening other than the weather. The Reform Movement offers a plethora of wonderful material to supplement your seders within a few clicks of your mouse. The two main sites I have visited are the Union for Reform Judaism site, www.urj.org and the Religious Action Center site www.rac.org. On the home page of both these sites is a direct link to this wealth of information to enhance your seders.
I will be adding two simple supplements to my family’s seder this evening. One is called, “the fifth child,” which focuses on the issue of gun violence. Click on this link to download this simple, one page supplement. If you do this I also recommend that you tell people about the New Jersey Together Against Gun Violence assembly that will take place on Sunday, April 14th at 2:00 p.m. in East Orange, at Christ Episcopal Church, 422 Main Street. (See flyer attached.)
The other is called, “the Fifth Question,” which is, “Why on this night are millions of people still going hungry.” (With the various sets of four at the seder – the four questions, the four children, the four cups of wine, the four promises of redemption – it is natural that seder supplements often refer to a fifth thing we should think about.)
Another commentary I really like is a blog by Rabbi Denise Eger which connects the marriage equality issue now before the Supreme Court to the seder.
May you have a safe, warm and meaningful Pesach!
Rabbi Jordan Millstein
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