A recent addition to the seder plate is an orange, to honor women and LGBTQ+ people in Judaism. In the 1970’s, the first women were ordained as Rabbis. According to one story, during a speech by a Jewish scholar Dr. Susannah Heschel, a man in the audience yelled out, “a woman belongs on the bimah as much as an orange belongs on the Seder plate!” A new tradition was born. As we share the orange pieces, we honor the religious and spiritual contributions of women and LGBTQ+ people in the Jewish community and throughout all of time.


haggadah Section: Maror