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Mishkan Shalom offers an overflowing plate of gatherings, services and resources to help you prepare for and celebrate the Passover holiday and explore ways of Counting the Omer. See our full schedule and access all resources.

Scroll down to access resources to prepare for and celebrate the holiday.

Here is a list of Social Justice Haggadot:

Times of Israel
HIAS created this Haggadah supplement to help us include the global refugee crisis in our Passover seder
American Jewish World Service - AJWS has created this Global Justice Haggadah
Uri L'Tzedek (the Orthodox Social Justice movement) has created this Pesach supplement with extensive readings
The Shalom Center’s: Passover, Earth Day, & the Global Climate Crisis: Seder Supplement

Passover Songs, Poetry, Prayers & Readings

Freedom (Passover Poem)

by Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit

Gathering the mixed multitudes in my soul
I rummage through my belongings
In preparation for leave-taking
What aspects of myself
Do I need to make the journey
What can I leave behind
To memory in the narrow places

Maybe this year, we will go out together
In broad daylight
Not in the still of the night
In no haste
Soul in Soul
Holding each other in loving compassion
Knowing we will cross together
Finding home at last
In the depth of Divine waters
That part willingly
On the shores of a wilderness

What if no one drowned this year
And You need not weep
For any of Your lost children
So, let’s not leave in haste this year
But see the blessings that even
The narrow places have offered us
For no place is without You
Freedom is in Your arms
Wherever we may be
On the journey.

Life: Songs for the Seasons and Cycles of Life Rabbi Shawn's CD includes songs for Passover.

A Night of Questions (CD) This special musical collection features 23 traditional folk tunes that have been sung at seder tables for centures, along with 7 original contemporary songs. Page references allow you to use the CD to accompany A Night of Questions: A Passover Haggadah. (Recorded by Mishkan’s own Rabbi Shawn Zevit, Rabbi Margot Stein, Rabbi Myriam Klotz as well as Rabbi Rayzel Raphael, Rabbi Micah Becker-Klein and Juliet Spitzer.)

The Passover Seder: What to Expect?

Bedikat Chametz A kavannah for Bedikat Chametz, the Search for Chametz

Kiddush & Shehecheyanu for Passover Audio Clip, Shabbat Unplugged

Matzah: Bread of Affliction, Bread of Hope and Possibility Rabbi Yael Levy, A Way In: Jewish Mindfulness Organization

LO DAYENU! It is Not Enough, by Rabbi Leila Gal Berner

Passover Resources from the Reconstructionist Movement

A Night of Questions: A Passover Haggadah Beautifully illustrated Haggadah & CD available from The Reconstructionist Press: Prayers, text, notes, songs, translations, transliterations, commentary & more. Discounts offered on quantities of 5 or more.

Passover Resources from the Reconstructionist Movement