Like an Orange on a Seder Plate: Our Feminist Haggadah by Ruth Simkin eBook Harry Potter un der filosofisher

Harry Potter un der filosofisher shteyn was translated to Yiddish by renowned American Yiddishist Arun Schaechter Viswanath and comes in a lush hardback edition with dust-jacket and amazing cover art by Jonny Duddle

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Arranged thematically—from school days to the holidays—the book takes readers from Jewish holidays and history to folktales and fables

Glikl’s frequent use of first person and the significance she assigns her own life experience set the work apart

Like an Orange on a Seder Plate: Our Feminist Haggadah by Ruth Simkin eBook Harry Potter un der filosofisherNot so very long ago, a woman wanted to know why women can't be up on the bimah (altar), holding the torah. She asked the rabbi why this was so. The "learned rabbi" responded, stroking his beard, "A woman should be on the bimah like an orange should be on the Seder plate!" Now, each year at Passover, we give to an orange the place of honor on our Seder plate. This Haggadah is a script for sharing the Passover Seder together in a contemporary, woman