Women artists, writers, MKs, and public intellectuals will speak at a celebratory event to mark the publication of And She That Stood – The Passover Haggadah with a New Feminist Interpretation. They will speak about experiences of freedom in their lives and what the festival means to them. Speakers at the event will include: Agi Mishol, Yochi Brandeiss, Neri Livneh, Si Heiman, Anat Lev Adler, Sara Blau, Esti G Hayim, MK Tami Zandberg, Eilat Beiton Schlonski, Noam Fertman, Rachel Liel, Naomi Chazan, and more.

The event is being held by Hamidrasha Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Oranim and the New Israel Fund, and will take place on Wednesday, 27th March, 18:30, at Beit Ha’ir, Bialik Square, 27 Bialik Street, Tel Aviv.

As well as the traditional text, the And She That Stood haggadah includes feminist commentaries, and is being published by Hamdrisha Center and NIF.

The event will explore the idea of freedom, which is at the heart of Passover, the freedom of women, and will also return female personalities to the Exodus narrative.

Hamidrasha Center, supported by NIF, is an educational center that works for the renewal of Jewish life in Israel, with a focus on the education system and the public and family sphere. The editors of the haggadah are Dr. Nira Nachliel and Anat Yisraeli, and the texts were chosen Hagit Ackerman, Tami Luz Gerber, and Devorah Avron.

The event will be moderated by Devorah Avron, a participant in the Halachah for Women program at Hamidrasha Center in Jerusalem, and Hagit Ackerman, a drama instructor and one of the creators of the Nigunim Center at Hamidrasha.

NIF is the leading organization advancing democracy and equality for all Israelis. It believes that Israel can live up to its founders’ vision of a state that ensures complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants, without regard to religion, race, gender or national identity. Widely credited with building Israel’s progressive civil society from scratch, it has provided over $200 million to more than 800 cutting-edge organizations since our inception, including organizations that fight to narrow social gaps, promote the independence of women, Jewish pluralism, freedom of religion, human rights, immigrant absorption, and environmental justice.