Java Gate

We the Jewish people have a problem. How do we do a seder that deals with our depressing world without becoming depressing? It is so easy to get it wrong.

We could talk about October 7, we could talk about rising anti-Semitism, our college-age children could talk about what it is like for a proud Zionist and lover of Israel to be on campus, but that is all super depressing.

Or, we could ignore the elephant in the room, the 150-plus day war in Israel, the fact that the golden age of American Jewry is either over or endangered (depending on your point of view), and then have a happier seder purchased at the cost of not talking about what really matters.

Is there some way to thread the needle: to talk about depressing content without becoming depressing?

This Sunday, Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz will lead a conversation about how to run a seder that engages our depressing world (October 7, 150 plus days of war, rising Jew hatred on college campuses and throughout the world) without becoming depressing.

Full Drop In Schedule below:

March 10 – Wes Gardenswartz and Marcie Abramson

March 17 – Liz Goldstein

March 31 – Elias Rosemberg

April 7 – Erin Moseley