Empowering Seder Conversations Passover Haggadah – Review

By Rabbanit Shani Taragin

Posted originally at HaMizrachi

Since October 7th, I have frequently found myself at a loss for words when responding to the hackneyed, “How are you?” or attempting to explain the inexplicable. Psychologists often attribute speech deficiency to an experience of trauma which decreases activity in Broca’s area, located in the left hemisphere of the brain and associated with speech production and articulation. 

Empowering Seder Conversations Passover Haggadah – Review

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin

Originally posted at San Diego Jewish World

The new 2024 Urim Publications Empowering Seder Conversations Passover Haggadahis very instructive. The Passover Seder is a family meal and ceremony, frequently with guests, using an ancient book called Haggadah, “The Telling,” which contains multiple ancient writings designed to encourage participants to think about Jewish history, freedom, and the future and speak about the biblical story of the Israelites’ exodus under Moses’ leadership from Egyptian slavery over 3,000 years ago.

‘Empowering Seder Conversations’: Making Passover Seder inclusive – Review

by Rivkah Lambert Adler

Originally posted at The Jerusalem Post online, April 13, 2024

It includes contributions from 35 Torah scholars, friends, and “heroes who contribute beautiful and inspiring pieces of Torah while facing daily speech, language, and disability struggles.”

Empowering Seder Conversations Passover Haggadah – Review

by Josh Hasten

Originally posted at Jewish News Syndicate, 12/4/24

New, inclusive Haggadah aims to empower your seder

The Haggadah is the brainchild of Efrat residents Leora Ashman and her husband Eitan, who developed aphasia following an ischemic stroke in 2017.

A brand-new Passover Haggadah titled, “Empowering Seder Conversations,” published just in time for the holiday, is designed to promote inclusion at the Seder table, making the special evening more accessible for those suffering from aphasia and other neurological challenges.

Magid Pre-Pesach Event

Haggadah Launch: Empowering Seder Conversations

For more information on this haggadah, visit Urim Publications

Memorial

Rabbi Leo Dee is the author of Transforming the World, Urim Publications

Koach Eitan Haggadah

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Empowering Seder Conversations Passover Haggadah – Review

by Jeffrey Saks

Orhinally posted at Tradition Online, March 27, 2024

The Pesach Haggadah allows us, each year, to rediscover the challenges that faced us as a fledgling nation and to consider how the messages of our founding redemption resonate as we have overcome countless struggles “in each and every generation.” Often these daunting threats have faced the entire Jewish people, at other times localized populations, and on occasion distinct individuals whose heroism serves as a model for us all.

At this time of nationwide—and worldwide—Jewish struggle, I think of some remarkable figures in my own small neighborhood in Efrat.

Book Launch of the new Koach Eitan Haggadah

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For more information on this book, visit Urim Publications