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Is the Passover Seder Zionist?

JL;DR SUMMARY Every spring, social media revives the debate on whether the Passover Seder is a Zionist tradition or potentially its antithesis. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish TraditionJerusalemZionismAnti ZionismUniversalismLiberationPalestinian NarrativeHaggadahPassover SederParticularism

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"Even the phrase next year in Jerusalem could have Palestinian connotations; theyve lived there for a long time, too."
Los Angeles, California, United States
"He is based in Los Angeles."
Virginia, United States
"Rabbi Vanessa Ochs, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia and the author of The Passover Haggadah: A Biography, told me that the phrase Next year in Jerusalem appears in the earliest known Seder guide, a 900-year-old manuscript known as the Birds Head Haggadah."
Egypt
"Easy to understand why the Passover Haggadah, which tells the story of the Jews miraculous redemption from slavery in Egypt, sounds like a Zionist story to many Sedergoers."

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