Submitted by Rabbi Arthur Waskow on
Today we bring you inside the book: to its authors and essays through the Table lof Contents.
As we have written you already, the book we edited -- Liberating Your Passover Seder – is in Beta stage, not yet fully corrected and not yet ink-and-paper printed. Yet we want to make it available before this next Passover.
So here is what we arranged: Pay for the book now as a NOT-FINAL BETA edition, and get a free copy of the ink-and-paper book for sure by no later than June 23 (the publisher’s birthday!) and possibly – no promises on this hoped-for date -- – before Shavuot.
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Just to give you a savor of the book’s richness in authors and content, here’s the Table of Contents.
Shalom, Phyllis and Arthur
CONTENTS
In Every Generation: Looking Forward
Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow and Rabbi Phyllis Ocean Berman
Why I Wrote the Freedom Seder and
Why It’s Still Necessary 50 Years After Dr. King’s Assassination 4
Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow
Father Dan Berrigan, Cornell University, and the Freedom Seder 12
Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow
The Influence of the Freedom Seder, 44 Years Later 15
Rabbi David Saperstein
The Shalom Seders: Three Progressive Visions 17
Reena Bernards
A Museum of History Creates the Future:
The Contemporary Resonance of Ancient Ritual 22
Emily August
The Seder Sisters 26
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
The Wellspring: A Public Women’s Seder 34
Rabbi Tamara Cohen
Women: Enslaved or Liberated by the Seder? 39
Rabbi Shalom Schachter
Mah Nishtanah? Pesach Liberation and LGBTQ Coming Out 43
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum
The Song of Songs Seder: A Night of Sacred Sexuality 51
Rabbi Robert dos Santos Teixeira, LCSW
Celebrating Queer Sexuality in a Song of Songs Seder 57
Susala Kay
The Seder of the Children of Abraham 62
Rabbi Brian Walt, Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, and Catherine Essoyan
A Freedom Seder in Hebron 77
A. Daniel Roth
Campus Freedom Seders: Freedom For Who, Exactly? 82
Jess Schwalb
Earthy Teachings of Pesach 89
Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow & Rabbi Jeff Sultar
My People Were Refugees: The Writing of the HIAS Haggadah 99
Rabbi Rachel Grant Meyer
Discovering the Ecological Imperative of Passover
The Backstory of “The Promise of the Land: A Passover Haggadah” 103
Rabbi Ellen Bernstein
Kos Miryam Ritual of 1987 and Kos Miryam for Pesach 112
Stephanie Loo, M.Ed. and Rabbinic Pastor Matia Rania Angelou
Why an Orange? 118
Dr. Susannah Heschel
The Freedom Plate on the Seder Table 121
Martha Hausman
Four New Questions for the Passover Seder 127
Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow
#FreedomSeder50:
“Making our Days Radically New as They Were 50 Years Ago” 130
Rabbi Phyllis O. Berman and Vivienne Hawkins
The Mosque and the Seder: 138
By Imam Abdul-Halim Hassan
Remember the Poor 140
By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
“Only Prophets Can Stand Up Now…” 147
Reverend William Barber II
A Seder for Healthcare Workers During a Plague 150
Denise L. Davis, MD
Crossing the Red Sea to Create the Post-COVID World 154
Seventh night Seder On-Line April 14, 5780- 2020
Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit
Notes Toward Freeing the Seder 167
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Passover & Kabbalah:
Freedom from Alien Authority, Liberty Toward Higher Purpose 173
Dr. Joel Hecker with Jeffrey Dekro
Liberating the Future: Passover and Beyond 183
Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow
Endnotes 189
About the Authors 191
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