It’s been a rough couple of years to publish new haggadahs. Last year, around the time people might have ordered new ones, it became clear that the pandemic would force most people to attend virtual seders, where a free online haggadah works well, or very small in-person seders, where the handful already lying around the house will do just fine.
And, of course, the situation is similar this year.
Undeterred, the Jews of the world have continued churning out new haggadahs.
Last year saw the publication of the “Haggadeck” (as much a haggadah as a deck of cards) by Taya Mâ Shere, a Berkeley-based co-founder of the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute. And this year brings us “Mishkan HaSeder,” the latest Reform movement haggadah, which includes an original translation by Rabbi Janet Marder, recently retired from Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, and Rabbi Sheldon Marder, the former chaplain at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living.