After a year of pandemic, one Pesach later, four Jewish students and thinkers have assembled a Passover Seder companion, filled with reflections on a year of plague and visions of redemption. Raffi Levi, Benji Zoller, Lavi Teitelbaum, and current New Voices Resilient Writing Fellow Sofia Freudenstein have curated a collection containing readings, poetry, and art from young Jewish artists across the pandemic diaspora (including a comic from New Voices Editor in Chief Rena Yehuda Newman). You can view this printable reader, “On This Very Day: One Pesach Later” here.
Fast forward to now – the upcoming Pesach 5781. There are glimmers of hope, but still isolation. Maybe even recognition and a feeling of being overwhelmed by the healing we will all need to do. With this intention, we proposed another pitch for submissions for a Pesach Companion to connect us during this time. The hope with this compilation we can orient ourselves to think about what we will tell our future generations of this moment in time: How was Pesach 5781 different? How was it actually pretty similar? What messages of struggle and liberation plague us today?
The submissions we received were creative, revelatory, and deeply personal. We hope you enjoy the final product of pieces from all over the world and a variety of different experiences and perspectives. Redemption is coming.
