How is this year different from all their years for Jewish Americans about Passover?

In each and every year during the Passover ritual, we were supposed to say that it is in each and every generation as if we ourselves are the ones who have come out of

Egypt. And it feels like this year more than ever we are very much in Egypt. There's the

vision, there's hatred, there's fighting, there's overall sense of fear.

I'm Israeli-American, both of my parents are Israeli

and most of my extended family is there.

I've just been Greek-stricken, and I'm just just just been Greek-stricken and I'm just really mourning.

As a Jew who supports Palestinian liberation, it's really filled me with rage and anger

to see my religion being used to justify a genocide and one of the things I love

about passwords is focus on liberation and retelling the story not to forget the show.

Passover, which starts this week, is the holiday of freedom for Jews.

I have always marked Passover my favorite Jewish holiday

with a traditional Passover dinner, the Seder, where we eat foods with

metaphorical meanings while taking turns reading passages from a book called The Hagata.

Between Sips of Wine and Matsubal soup,

we try to find contemporary meaning

in the ancient stories of the Hagata.

We remind ourselves of the eternal human longing for freedom and

redemption by recounting Jewish escape from chains in Egypt. We were slaves and

now we are free. I read these words while leading

Saders in my home with friends and family Jews and non-Jews and

always someone at the table who's never experienced the Seder before. I

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