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The Survival Kit Family Haggadah: Everything a Family Needs to Create an Enjoyable, Educational and Spiritual Seder

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This Haggadah is written in a manner which makes it fun to read and the plain English translations and additional commentary provide a reasonably good outline to understanding the traditional Haggadah. Much of the traditional Hebrew is incleded but significant portions, such as the melodic Hallel prayers are not. I liked the technique used by the author of using the proverbial 4 children (wise, rebellious, simple and to young to ask) to ask questions throughout the commentaries. I think that this book is better used as a study guide. If there are useful commentaries, add them as a discussion while using a traditional Haggadah.

Anything written by Shimon Apisdorf is truly great. I would recommend his book on Eliyahu HaNavi and the Tales of the Tzaddikim series.

This hagaddah is American chauvenism disguised as Judaism. It includes for example a timeline of antisemitism which lists publication of Mein Kampf by an extremist Japanese magazine alongside the Holocaust and the destruction of the Second Temple.