Passover Haggadah Supplement 2011

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In this year of uprising in Egypt what does the Passover story have to say to us? What would liberation throughout the world mean? FOR YOUR SEDER, here is a Haggadah supplement — not a replacement. If you don’t normally do a Seder, you can use this supplement as the basis for an interfaith gathering in your home on April 18, the first night of Passover, or on any of the other nights of Passover until it ends on April 26. Many people read part or all of this at any Seder they attend, sometimes going around and having a different person read each paragraph.

Napoleon’s Dictum

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Some people condemn the “Libyan intervention” because there is no similar action against Bahrain or Yemen. Sure, it is a case of blatant discrimination. But that is like demanding a murderer go unpunished because other murderers are still free. Two minuses make a plus, but two murders do not become a non-murder.

Violence in Libya

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It’s not enough to oppose violence. That’s the deep weakness of an anti-war movement that focuses only on what it is against. The world needs to hear what we are for.

Justice Goldstone Receives The Tikkun Award

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Discover the real Richard Goldstone in this video from Tikkun’s 25th Anniversary celebration on March 14, 2011 in Berkeley, California:

in Michael Lerner’s introduction of him, explaining why Tikkun chose to give him this award that has gone to a select number of progressive heroes in the past and
in his own words, as he talks about the rights of civilians to be protected, even in war. [youtube: video=”rG_58B_y014″]

Passover Haggadah Supplement 2011

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Every year Tikkun publishes a Haggadah supplement for Passover. This year we only published the first part of it in the print magazine (the two pages pictured at right) and promised that the entire haggadah would be published online, here, in time for Passover. We wrote:

FOR YOUR SEDER, here is a Haggadah supplement—not a replacement. If you don’t normally do a Seder, you can use this supplement as the basis for an interfaith gathering in your home on April 18, the first night of Passover, or on any of the other nights of Passover until it ends on April 26. The bulk of this supplement can be found online at tikkun.org/passoversupplement.

Love’s Fever: A Return to the Garden

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The time-honed debate about whether the Song of Songs is a celebration of sensual love or a depiction of the ever-changing, running-and-returning relationship of the Holy One and the People is put to rest in Rabbi Shefa Gold’s recent translation and commentary of the Song.

How the Ari Created a Myth and Transformed Judaism

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How is it that a concept rooted in medieval Jewish mysticism has so endeared itself to contemporary Jews? Howard Schwartz retells the myth of the “Shattering of the Vessels” and explains how it created a foundation for modern-day tikkun olam.

Cosmic Wonder, Human Opportunity

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THE NEW UNIVERSE AND THE HUMAN FUTURE: HOW A SHARED COSMOLOGY COULD TRANSFORM THE WORLD by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack, Yale Press, 2011.