Sitting down to the seder table this year, we may feel daunted at the chaos of the times that surround us. War, fear, the loss of stability—can the ritual work its familiar magic in the face of all that?

A moment’s reflection should reassure us that the Haggadah has resonated in worse times than these.

At its heart, the seder is very simple. We share a meal; we tell a story. The Haggadah, likewise, has its fixed elements, but it’s also capacious, a thousand-year-old outline waiting to be filled and brought to life with discussion and argument.

It’s that tension between the story and its empty spaces that inspired us to put together this supplement to your own Passover Haggadah this year. With contributions from poets, artists, and thinkers, such as Marge Piercy, Adam Serwer, Roya Hakakian, Dara Horn and more, it brings new reflections on Jewish life, history, and responsibility into the seder.

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