Passover as Resistance

Three reasons the Passover seder tells its story each year

Last year, I wrote an intro to our Passover seder in order to contend with the toxic, morally vexing, and unavoidable subject of the Israel/Gaza war. I published it here on Substack as well. The three main points were:

1) The seder is an origin story in which the Jewish people become a people by escaping slavery, purging old ways through a generation of…