Passover 5785/2025: Next Year in Liberation

As we gather for Passover this year, the despair and overwhelm we feel is palpable.

For 17 months, the Israeli government has carried out a genocide in Gaza, wreaking death and destruction at an incomprehensible scale. Now, as the Trump regime pushes the U.S. to the brink of a fascist takeover, Israel is expanding its genocide across historic Palestine.

But as Palestinians choose life, remaining steadfast in the face of unimaginable circumstances, we too must refuse to comply with fascism — and continue crying out with everything we have to end the genocide.

We gather the strength to keep fighting by rooting ourselves in Jewish tradition. It is in the name of this tradition of fighting fascist erasure — and the steadfastness of Palestinians living through genocide — that we dedicate JVP’s 5785 Haggadah. 

In-person events and actions

Check your local chapter’s social media for information about local actions and seders.

Other resources

How to Have Hard Conversations 

As many of us gather with born or chosen family, check out these supportive tips about navigating difficult conversations about Palestine at the seder table.

And if you prefer to listen, tune in to our previous iG Live sessions with Chani Nicholas:

• How to Have Hard Conversations with Family in This Moment: A Conversation with Chani Nicholas, Mazal Masoud Etedgi, and Esther Farmer, 12/11/23
  
• Have Hard Conversations 2.0: The State of the Movement, How to Continue Building Community  with Chani Nicholas, Asher Firestone and Esther Farmer, 6/11/24

Haggadah zine from the JSWANA-BAY AREA team

Passover During the Plague of Genocide

JVP Haggadah 5785/2025: Next Year in Liberation

To reclaim our holiday of liberation is to begin to reclaim Judaism itself from Zionism. It is in service of this sacred obligation that we created the JVP Haggadah 5785/2025: Next Year in Liberation.

Passover Haggadah supplement for Asian Jews

Created by Asian Jews 4 Ceasefire, designed by Is Perlman