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Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. While anyone who has participated in a Seder knows what a Haggdah is, the Roberts have wrapped the Exodus story around their longtime romance - bringing family together So the book has 3 good parts - 1 the Roberts love story - and travelogue; 2 the Exodus story told in the Haggadah; and 3 recipes! At first, we heard howls of protest from our friends — where were the marks and mistakes?
It didn't take long of course for us to infuse the "Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition" with a new set of wine stains. Our Haggadah has also been something of a mishmash where we go back and forth from our homemade sheets to what we call the "blue book," a Haggadah published by the Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation that we've used for decades as a supplement to the typewritten pages. Every year Steve and I argue about exactly where in the service we first move to the book, causing hoots and hollers from our longtime Seder buddies who have come to see this dispute as a Passover tradition.
'Our Haggadah': A Guide For Interfaith Families
It's just one of the many Passover traditions — some silly, some special — that we and our friends, old and new, have come to anticipate annually as we celebrate the festival of freedom that is at the same time universal and unique. People from all countries and cultures can relate to the theme of breaking out of bondage, but it is the Jewish people who have kept alive this celebration, often risking their lives to do it, over thousands of years.
She tells about a group of Jews at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp who signed a petition asking the commandant to give them flour to bake the matzo in exchange for their daily bread ration. After they submitted the petition, when they heard nothing from their captors, the Jews were convinced that they had signed their death warrants — that they would become the sacrificial lambs. But then the word came that they could have their flour and build an oven to bake it in and they were able to produce three misshapen black matzo.
They put them on a turned-over bunk bed used as a table, along with a broken pot substituting for a Seder plate. And with children surrounding him, he proclaimed the promise of Passover: That is the faith and hope that Jews all over the world and in many different languages bring to the Passover table as they ask on the same night the same question: Why is this night different from all others?
But I am not one of those Jews. I am a Catholic who feels privileged to be included in this communion. No one invited me, I pretty much wangled myself in, and that, to me, is the point of transforming our Haggadah into something a little less homespun. There are many non-Jews who want to sit at the Passover table, and many do in churches around America. That's different, however, from serving up your own Seder, which often seems intimidating at best, intrusive at worst.
So this is our story of our Haggadah, and, more important, our Passover.
Even though Steve and I knew that we wanted to recognize both of our religions and rituals in our home, we had a somewhat inchoate idea of what that meant. Since Arthur Goldberg had participated in our wedding ceremony, he and Mrs. Goldberg took an interest in our marriage and very kindly invited us to their Seder in , the first Passover after we were married, when we were living in New York. With some trepidation we joined in the somewhat famous Goldberg Seder, held at the time at the residence of the United States' ambassador to the United Nation, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. As tuxedoed waiters served traditional dishes like matzo ball soup and gefilte fish laid out on elegant china, and the guests each took what seemed to me their very comfortable places in reading the words of the ritual, I was both mystified about what was going on and excited to be a small part of it.
It wasn't until the crowd started singing freedom songs from the civil rights and labor movements, held over from the days when Goldberg had been a leading labor lawyer, that I felt I could participate with gusto. Still, I understood that this central ceremony in the Jewish religion was one we needed to celebrate in our home. The next year, when I was pregnant with our first child, I felt even more strongly that Passover needed to be part of our fledgling adult life, but I didn't feel at all capable of doing it on my own.
So I asked Steve's parents if they would host a Seder for us.
Our Haggadah - Cokie Roberts - Hardcover
They gamely said yes, though they had never held one before, and Steve's mom was not at all happy to take on the task of cooking a menu outside her usual repertoire. The perspectives they give in this book enhances your insight in how their marriage and family can thrive with the presence of traditional religious ritual and deep personal faith. I can easily recommend this book though I wish it were in paperback or with a spiral binder for ease a I find reading books authored by Cokie Roberts and Steve Roberts to be very insightful.
I can easily recommend this book though I wish it were in paperback or with a spiral binder for ease at our Seder. Apr 06, Robin rated it it was ok Shelves: Two and a half, maybe? The anecdotes about the Roberts' life together are sweet and worth reading. The haggadah is just a haggadah, with nothing unique or especially enlightening or fun about it. The recipes are mostly links to websites. The Hebrew has been printed in a font so tiny I doubt a native Israeli could read it aloud by seder candlelight.
I love Cokie Roberts on the radio, but I'm glad I read this one as a library book. I won't be adding it to my haggadah coll 2 stars isn't really fair. I won't be adding it to my haggadah collection.
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View all 3 comments. Nov 28, Njeri rated it really liked it. My husband and I are not Jewish but this book made me want to host a Seder. Passover is a very detailed celebration and I don't think I would do it justice so now I'll just be hoping to someday get invited to one: The underlying message of inclusion and the celebration of freedom is one many people can relate to so non-Jewish readers might still find it interesting.
Oct 26, Francine rated it it was amazing. This is one part family history and one part instruction book. I just loved reading it I am a big fan of Cokie Roberts' work. This is a warm, inclusive book about a couple who share common values but not a common faith.
Cokie and Steve Roberts forged their own way and did it splendidly. Dec 13, David rated it really liked it Shelves: In preparation for our seder I decided to look at seders other people have experienced. This one, performed by Steve and Cokie Roberts for many years, is a nice way to honor the traditions, keep things moving and be inclusive. Dec 01, Ashley rated it it was amazing Shelves: I really loved this book. It allowed me to make a lot of connections between Christianity and Judaism. My husband and I will definitely be using this information to start making our own Passover traditions.
Local and interfaith iews; we share stuff in common. I reviewed this Passover Haggadah here: Alfajirikali rated it liked it Apr 25, Tom Krauskopf rated it really liked it Dec 25, Mary rated it liked it May 17,