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Passover table setting with a traditional Passover seder plate with symbolic meal, matzah and Haggadah.

At the Passover Table, New Traditions Will Be Born

This year feels like the first of many years where I begin to truly incorporate my partner’s cultural traditions into our family.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Apr 5, 2023

Cover of Haggadah Min HaMeitzar. It includes the Yachatz silk painting with three vertical matzot where one looks like the earth split into two. It also includes the text "Haggadah Min HaMeitzar A Seder Journey to Liberation by Gabriella Spitzer."

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The Traditional and Radical Queer Haggadah I Wanted Didn’t Exist — So I Wrote It Myself

Nowadays, I ask, “how can my queerness deepen my Judaism, and how can my Judaism deepen my queerness?” Haggadah Min HaMeitzar is one answer to that question.

G

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Mar 26, 2023

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Gey In Kikh: Passover Matzo, the Bread of Affliction

The basic mitzvah of Passover is to eat the Bread of Affliction, so let’s lean into the ancestral trauma and make our own matzo.

Ari

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Apr 6, 2020

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Vegetarian Chopped Liver and Pynk Pickled Eggs for Passover: A Two-Part Recipe

This vegetarian, kitniyot-free vegetarian chopped liver feels really homey and comfortable and hearty and celebratory. Chag Pesach sameach!

Ari

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Apr 19, 2019

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Queering the Jewish Holidays: How I Celebrate Passover

In a couple of weeks I’m hosting my very first queer Seder. Let’s talk about how we celebrate Passover!

Vanessa

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Mar 19, 2018

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Top 8 Weirdo Things I Ate During Passover

“I couldn’t read the ingredient list but I’m pretty sure it was kosher. I ate it on matzah, duh.”

Eli

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Apr 14, 2015

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Pretty Much Every Manischewitz Product, Ranked

“It’s like biting into a decorative soap. Whoever decided this was an acceptable form of dessert was a sadist of the highest order. If anyone ever offers you one of…

Stef

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Apr 3, 2015