Make Your Own Passover Seder: A New Approach to Creating a Personal Family Celebration - Hardcover

Kay, Alan A.; Kay, Jo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787967661 ISBN 13: 9780787967666

Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, 2004

Synopsis

Make Your Own Passover Seder gives you the information needed to create a customized seder that expresses your and your family’s particular spiritual, political, and personal values and sentiments. No matter what your religious persuasion¾Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, Renewal, or not Jewish at all¾this guide provides a wise and learned approach that is filled with warmth and creativity. Make Your Own Passover Seder offers new ideas and myriad options based on the authors' own experience and hundreds of other examples of seders throughout the world.

About this title

About the Author

Alan Abraham Kay is rabbi of the Temple Beth Emeth in Mount Sinai, New York. He is the author of The Jewish Book of Comfort.

Jo Kay is director of the New York School of Education at Hebrew Union College?Jewish Institute of Religion. She is a consultant at the Whizin Institute for Jewish Family Life, University of Judaism, Los Angeles.

From the Back Cover

A Guide for Preparing and Enjoying Your Own Unique Family Seder

"The Kays have transmitted their own love?and knowledge?of the Passover seder onto the printed page in a way that?s catching for novice and experienced seder creators alike."
?Dru Greenwood, director, Outreach and Synagogue Community Union of American Hebrew Congregations

"Filled with practical tips for every stage of the process. . . . this book will help anyone, neophyte or veteran, create a memorable and satisfying seder."
?Jonathan S. Woocher, president, Jewish Educational Services of North America (JESNA)

"Simplifies the challenging prospect of figuring out how to make a meaningful seder while providing spiritual insight and support. . . . Helps all to transform the seder experience?the central experience of Jewish family life?into a sacred memory."
?Kerry M. Olitzky, executive director, Jewish Outreach Institute, New York

"Jo and Alan are outstanding Jewish family educators who have written a practical guide to making a Passover seder into a participatory and meaningful experience.

A treasure trove of great ideas for every seder leader!"
?Ron Wolfson, author, Passover: The Family Guide for Spiritual Celebration, Second Edition

"This book not only explains the . . . theology of the seder meal, but a deeper truth. In order for a family to appreciate the seder, they need to give one . . . to prepare as a unit . . . to invite friends."
?Monsignor Tom Hartman, coauthor with Rabbi Marc Gellman of Religion for Dummies

Reviews

Passover novices will enjoy this creative, step-by-step how-to guide, written entirely in English and geared for today's families. The Kays provide very basic information about all the components of preparing and hosting a seder, from selecting a Haggadah to planning different types of menus. The book's second half walks readers through the 15 elements of the seder experience. The authors show a special sensitivity for interfaith and interracial families, and a slightly earthy-crunchy slant. (Alongside the traditional pre-Passover-search-and-destroy mission for leaven, for example, they suggest purging the home of any products that may have been tested on animals.) Particularly helpful are the "tip" boxes scattered throughout the book, sharing practical and personal suggestions from real-life seder celebrants. The Kays also offer recipes, songs, stories, a glossary of terms and numerous referrals to other books for information about specific aspects of the seder experience.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787967661
• ISBN 13: 9780787967666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240