The Vilna Shul and the Hadar Institute have teamed up to help you prepare for Passover. Join us for a community-wide lecture, parent-child learning, a puppet-making workshop, and a community lunch outdoors. From multiple perspectives, we'll explore key questions of memory and identity at the Passover Seder. All are welcome.
10:30am
Remembering Our Exodus
An Interactive Workshop for Families with Children Ages 5-12
Rabbi Ethan Tucker, President and Rosh Yeshiva at Hadar
Remember that time your parents woke you up in the middle of night to rush you out of Egypt with just a backpack full of belongings? Remember all those crackers you had to eat? Remember when the sea split? No? Well, that’s funny because the Torah says that we all left Egypt! During this family learning session, we’ll discuss the importance of remembering the exodus as if we were all physically there. Bring your questions, memories, and curiosity!
12:00pm
Community Lunch on Patio Plaza
12:30pm
Open House or Members Night: Whom To Invite to the Seder?
A Community-Wide Lecture
Rabbi Ethan Tucker
During the Passover Seder, Jews all over the world narrate their story in the first person proclaiming, “We were slaves to Pharoah in Egypt,” literally reconstructing our identity and purpose each and every year. And yet, precisely for that reason, the Seder is an evening where so many Jews have the instinct to share this story and bring others into the narrative. Which is it? Should the Seder focus on the particular qualities or on universal themes? We will explore this question by examining sources about non-Jewish attendance at a Seder and how to think about the competing values behind the details.
Puppet-Making Workshop
Passover Edition
Rotem Goldenberg, CJP/JARTS Creative Fellow
Join us for a hands-on puppet making workshop! Leave with a hand-made object for your passover seder. While children engage in play-based programming led by a local puppeteer and supervised by Vilna staff, parents are welcome to attend the community lecture in The Vilna's historic sanctuary.
Meet our Leaders
Rabbi Ethan Tucker is President and Rosh Yeshiva at Hadar. Ethan was ordained by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and earned a doctorate in Talmud and Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary and a B.A. from Harvard College. A Wexner Graduate Fellow, he was a co-founder of Kehilat Hadar and a winner of the first Grinspoon Foundation Social Entrepreneur Fellowship. He is the author, along with Rabbi Micha'el Rosenberg, of Gender Equality and Prayer in Jewish Law (2017). Ethan serves as a trustee of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation.
Originally from Israel, Rotem Goldenberg moved to Cambridge, MA this past year. Her art is for audiences of all ages and exists between the spaces of visual theater, performance, storytelling, and clowning. She believes in using theater as a tool in both social activism and therapy. Rotem has taught and lectured in universities, schools, and community events across the globe. She is an actor and partner in the Holot Theater, a social theater group for Israelis and asylum seekers. As a medical clown, she has worked in children’s departments, rehabilitative geriatric hospitals, and mental health hospitals. Most recently, Rotem served as a social clown with the “Emunah” organization for at-risk youth.
COVID Policy
The Vilna will be asking for proof of vaccination upon entry and has adopted a mask-optional policy when indoors. We will continue to offer surgical masks in the entryway if you would like.
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