“SEDER (“order”)” by Caroline Rothstein
Author’s note: Last year, Passover felt impossible. In the wake of ongoing mass violence worldwide, across countries, across borders, within borders, within the clandestine, and so too the public sphere and space, it felt impossible to celebrate anything in the wake of so much ongoing grief. For one of my two weekly video series––“Behind the Poem”––I a piece, a poem, maybe simply a prayer in the order of the Passover Seder, which I shared across my social media last Passover. As Passover begins this year, I find myself returning to this piece, poem, prayer, as mass violence and human-made atrocities continue to eradicate not only livelihoods and lives, but our souls. I believe that when we continue to operate under...
