Make Your Own Passover Seder: A New Approach to Creating a Personal Family Celebration » (1ST)

Alan Abraham Kay is rabbi of the Temple Beth Emeth in Mount Sinai, New York. He is the author of The Jewish Book of Comfort.

Jo Kay is director of the New York School of Education at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion. She is a consultant at the Whizin Institute for Jewish Family Life, University of Judaism, Los Angeles.

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. 

Publishers Weekly

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) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.