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.
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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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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. (Jan. 9) (Publishers Weekly, February 9, 2004)
Two hands-on Passover guides promise help with making a more personal, meaningful seder. Rabbi Alan Kay and Jo Kay offer Make Your Own Passover Seder: A New Approach to Creating a Personal Family Celebration, a creative, step-by-step how-to guide written entirely in English and geared for today's families. (Publishers Weekly, March 22, 2004)
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Our First Passover Seder,
By Planetkid (Miller Place, New York USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Make Your Own Passover Seder: A New Approach to Creating a Personal Family Celebration (Jossey-Bass Make Your Own...) (Hardcover)
This year we made our own seder, we never had to do anything ever before because we always went to my in-laws for both nights. The in-laws retired to Florida this year and we decided to carry on the tradition in our home. "Make Your Own Passover Seder" was so helpful with every step of the way! An easy to follow how-to book that inspired us to start our own special family traditions and kept us very organized. About a month before Passover we started to go through the book and flag pages with great ideas to add to our very own seder. From choosing a haggadah to making charoset the book taught us how to create a meaningful celebration! We loved the recipes, and so did our guests! Our family couldn't stop talking about our First Passover Seder! Jay & Maryann Lebowitz
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A phenomenal Addition to Your Seder Plate,
By Leo Bloom (New York, New York United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Make Your Own Passover Seder: A New Approach to Creating a Personal Family Celebration (Jossey-Bass Make Your Own...) (Hardcover)
The Kays' book is one of those rare creations, a Passover guide that manages to be both entertaining, informative, and as captivating as a great novel. The Kays undertake a bold task, making Passover both spiritually rewarding and fun, and they accomplish their goal spectacularly. They provide the readers with real-life anecdotes, elaborative explanations of traditions, and ample suggestions on how to spice up the Passover Seder. As insightful as their writing is witty, the Kays infuse their wonderful book with modern sensitivies and sensibilities, suggesting alternatives for non-traditional families that are still very much within the spirit of the Holiday. In short, the Kays' is the quintessential Passover guide, enriching every Jewish library with the gift of this important holiday made approachable and fascinating.
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Passover-I never knew!,
By Jon Marcus (Chicago, Il) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Make Your Own Passover Seder: A New Approach to Creating a Personal Family Celebration (Jossey-Bass Make Your Own...) (Hardcover)
Wow! Who knew Passover could be so wacky and wonderful! Alan and Jo Kay delight in their first offering. This is clearly the most influential Passover book ever written! Cleverly scribed and wickedly entertaining, the Kays' masterpiece is sure to bring a smile even to Haman's face. The best part, you ask? The cover is made of Matzah! Mazel Tov!
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haggadah suggestions, matzah tray, most haggadahs, shemurah matzah, seder experience, own haggadah, third seder, middle matzah, haggadah text, own seder, recite the following blessing, recite the blessing over wine, seder table, tzedakah box, seder plate, traditional haggadah, matzah meal, vegetarian family, hitter herbs, seder service, festival candles, first seder, family seder, seder night, festival meal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bedikat Chametz, Common Road, The Open Door, Night of Questions, United States, Sephardic Jews, Eternal God, Sea of Reeds, Song of Songs, The Santa Cruz Haggadah, African American, May God, Red Sea, The Feast of Freedom, The Shalom Seders, Different Night, New Jewish Agenda, Rabban Gamliel, Reform Movement, Soviet Union, The Freedom Seder, Three Haggadahs Compiled, Ashkenazic Jews, Four Corners of the Earth, Grace After Meals New!
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When you "tune up," you prepare your mind and heart for what lies ahead. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
haggadah suggestions, matzah tray, most haggadahs, shemurah matzah, seder experience, own haggadah, third seder, middle matzah, haggadah text, own seder, recite the following blessing, recite the blessing over wine, seder table, tzedakah box, seder plate, traditional haggadah, matzah meal, vegetarian family, hitter herbs, seder service, festival candles, first seder, family seder, seder night, festival meal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bedikat Chametz, Common Road, The Open Door, Night of Questions, United States, Sephardic Jews, Eternal God, Sea of Reeds, Song of Songs, The Santa Cruz Haggadah, African American, May God, Red Sea, The Feast of Freedom, The Shalom Seders, Different Night, New Jewish Agenda, Rabban Gamliel, Reform Movement, Soviet Union, The Freedom Seder, Three Haggadahs Compiled, Ashkenazic Jews, Four Corners of the Earth, Grace After Meals New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Open Door: A Passover Haggadah (English and Hebrew Edition) by Sue Levi Elwell on 5 pages
- Shalom Seders: Three Haggadahs by New Jewish Agenda on 4 pages
- A Passover Haggadah: As Commented Upon by Elie Wiesel and Illustrated by Mark Podwal by Elie Wiesel on page 21, page 147, and Back Matter
- On Wings of Freedom (Leaders Edition) by Richard N. Levy on page 158, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Passover Haggadah: Second Revised Edition by Herbert Bronstein in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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