#haggadah

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[h4ganah]

Actually smth else im partly curious by and that is: you guys have different Hagadahs? Like especially within the same sect? Does it have to change every year?

https://www.tumblr.com/shofarsogood/812864815644196864/we-should-and-jvp-really-is-the-autism-speaks-of?source=share

(Incredible post btw, thanks for linking it)

Gonna reveal my conversion-student ignorance and say that I don't really know jack shit about this 😅💀 All I know is that there's quite a bit of variation between different communities and strands of judaism (if only because of different approaches to halacha), but I'm really only familiar with the one my masorti/conservative uses.

Any non-idiots please help answer this, I'm way out of my depth here 💀

[uwmspeccoll]

Chag Pesach Sameach!

Passover 2026

A couple of weeks ago, about 30 Nicolet High School students and teachers visited Special Collections as part of a Hebrew-language class facilitated by UW-Milwaukee. They were introduced to and spent time reviewing numerous Hebrew publications, from state-of-the-art facsimiles of medieval illuminated manuscripts to contemporary Hebrew artists' books.

Passover begins this evening (April 1). Among the works reviewed the students were several Passover Haggadot, including the Barcelona Haggadah (top image) and the Rothschild Haggadah (bottom image). The original illuminated manuscript of the Barcelona Haggadah was produced in Barcelona around 1340, and this facsimile was reproduced from the original manuscript in the British Library in 1992 by Facsimile Editions of London in an edition of 550 copies. The Rothschild Haggadah was originally produced in northern Italy in 1479, and was reproduced by Facsimile Editions in 2000 from the original in a collection of bound manuscripts called the Rothschild Miscellany held at Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and printed in an edition of 400 copies.

The image below is of the students assembled in front of our library, named in honor of Ukrainian-born Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir because she was raised and educated here in Milwaukee before eventually emigrating to Israel.

Happy Passover!

View another post from the Barcelona Haggadah.

View another post from the Rothschild Haggadah.

View more posts from Passovers past.

[dikleyt]

what says the water child? he says, "my girlfriend turned into the moon." you are to put your hand on his shoulder and say, "that's rough, buddy."

what says the fire child? he says, "i will catch the avatar if it's the last thing i do." you are to instruct him that only he can choose his destiny...

[eretzyisrael]

The JVP Haggadah is antisemitic by any standard - even their own!

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

Jewish Voice for Peace has published its Haggadah for Passover 5786/2026. 

It calls God a war criminal.

In the Hallel section, participants are invited to ask:

Can this be a holiday of liberation when the 'mighty hand and outstretched arm' that supposedly bring freedom are the same force that ten times over prevents peaceful escape from the narrow place, insisting on plague, environmental devastation, and massacre? Can this be a holiday of liberation when the triumph it introduces is first the slaughter of those who insist that democracy must be a part of liberation, and then the genocidal conquest of the land of Canaan — of Palestine — under the leadership of a hereditary priestly caste? ...These genocide warrants, these celebrations of genocide, these acts that enable more genocide, are the core of the story.

JVP is not criticizing Israeli policy. It is declaring that the God of Israel — the God whose "mighty hand and outstretched arm" are invoked in the Haggadah — is a perpetrator of genocide. To JVP, the Exodus is not a liberation story - it is a war crime. Passover is not a holiday - it is Tisha B'Av. 

Their hate for Jews and Judaism and God is so all-encompassing that they must reframe the Egyptians as peace-loving, democratic people who supported the liberation of the slaves if only those plagues would stop. If the Jews are the villains, the Egyptians (and Canaanites) must be the heroes of the story.

This is an attack on Judaism at its foundations — its sacred narrative, its central ritual, its God. If one believes this, then Jewish civilization is not merely flawed but irredeemably criminal from its inception. 

Which raises the obvious question: if the God Jews worship is genocidal, if the holiday Jews celebrate most is a ritual reenactment of ethnic cleansing, if Jewish communities and institutions are engines of colonial indoctrination — why does this organization insist on calling itself Jewish Voice for Peace? Who would want to be identified with a people who have been nothing but reprehensible from their very origins?

Because if they were "Non-Jewish Voice for Peace" they couldn't publish a Haggadah! Atheists don't hold seders.  Their claim to Jewishness is the precondition for the document's existence.

So JVP calls itself Jewish to weaponize the identity, while insisting that everything Jews have believed, celebrated, and transmitted across three thousand years is genocidal to its core. They are, by their own account, members of a people whose founding story is a war crime.

The hypocrisy is structural, not incidental. It is the whole point.

The antisemitism is obvious to anyone. But JVP needs to claim to be against antisemitism, so it created a framework carefully crafted to exclude their own hate from being called antisemitic. So by their definition, attacking and mocking Judaism is fine. They only oppose white nationalists and neo-Nazi versions of antisemitism, and they particularly emphasize the illegitimacy of conspiracy theories, saying "We have also seen the use of Jewish stereotypes and conspiracy theories as part of racist ideologies."

Now let's revisit the so-called Haggadah. In the section of the Simple Son, they say, "The Jewish state, Jewish communities, Jewish institutions, and Jewish family members — by our tax dollars and elected representatives — are in cahoots and complicit. In a STILL ongoing genocide."

This is, by any definition, a conspiracy theory, saying that Jewish communities, institutions and even ordinary Jews are "in cahoots" to promote genocide. 

 For JVP, every Jew participates in the worst possible crime. This is worse than the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which claimed only a shadowy cabal of insiders. Not to invoke Godwin's Law, but the closest parallel to JVP's characterization of Jews is that of Adolf Hitler, who also claimed that Jews were responsible for instigating wars, mass murder, and destroying civilizations from within.

JVP insists they oppose antisemitism. But by their own definition, they embrace it.

[treasuresfromthearchives]

From Hagadah shel Pesaḥ : Hagadat ha-tefutsot

1988

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[angryjewishcockroach]

What Haggadah is everyone using this fine Passover?