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  • Synagogues are "going green," and environmentally-oriented haggadot have made their way to the Passover Seder.

    Jewish Women in Environmental Activism 2010

  • "We All Stood Together" is included in numerous contemporary anthologies, in several prayerbooks, in haggadot, in sisterhood Shabbat services, in educational curricula, in bat mitzvah booklets.

    Merle Feld: Statement 2010

  • The Jewish Vegetarian Year Cookbook is a great resource, as are Kalechofsky's vegetarian and animal rights haggadot! reply

    Jewish Women in Environmental Activism 2010

  • The term aggadah (that was preceded in the early Jewish literature by the term haggadot) refers to statements that are not Scripturally dependent and that pertain to ethics, traditions, actions of the Rabbis, and the like.

    Midrash and Aggadah: Terminology. 2009

  • There are different types of haggadot depending on the focus of the Seder.

    Happy Passover פֶּסַח 2009

  • Haggadahs (or haggadot) are written anew and published every year, so an updating or modernizing of their contents is not unusual.

    Ellis Weiner: A Public Service from The Huffington Post: Dayenu 5766 2008

  • Besides my earlier point of the 1609 publications of translated haggadot at the beginning of the age of reason should refute your argument that haggada in the vernacular is recent.

    Even if all of us were wise | Jewschool 2007

  • Oppenheimer suggests that the diversity of creative haggadot can be attributed to the Jews who are primarily “secular Americans” and feel “unease” around Judaism, and that those who are more secure in their Jewish identies will opt instead for the unadorned Maxwell House.

    Even if all of us were wise | Jewschool 2007

  • If one of the haggadot was before the 20th century, the claim might have had some validity. in the years you pointed out, people’s Jewish education was already suffering, and translations were needed.

    Even if all of us were wise | Jewschool 2007

  • I think what BZ is saying is: some people just read the haggadah (this usually occurs at the MH seders) while some bring it to life (seders where everyone has a different point of view, perhaps because they are using different haggadot).

    Even if all of us were wise | Jewschool 2007

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