Passover Seder Plate - Variants

Variants

• Orange. — In the early 1980s, Jewish feminists introduced the custom of adding an orange to the Seder plate in response to a rabbi who told a young girl that a woman belongs on a bimah as an orange on a seder plate. The orange is now said to be a symbol of the fruitfulness of all Jews, including women and gay people. The above story is incorrect. The actual story is that Susannah Heschel began the tradition in the early 1980s as a protest against the exclusion of homosexuals from Judaism.