coming in late (of course) but echoing what many other people are saying--i wrote the haggadah that my immediate family uses and i wrote it with the knowledge that there would be non-jewish people present in mind. so i left in all the teaching plus a little extra, and i removed all of what i call the chest-thumping.
so there's absolutely no question in my mind that if jewish friends invite you to their seder, you deserve to be there and are welcomed--that's part of the point of the holiday. but i think your instincts about not creating your own seder are correct.
it seems like celebrating seder in other contexts is a great opportunity to let alex and colin know about something that is, after all, part of their heritage--even though you and your father are not jewish, there are jewish people on that side of your family. and anyway, it's a great holiday--it's very easy to make it relevant to the world today, alas.
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Date: 2010-04-14 04:53 pm (UTC)so there's absolutely no question in my mind that if jewish friends invite you to their seder, you deserve to be there and are welcomed--that's part of the point of the holiday. but i think your instincts about not creating your own seder are correct.
it seems like celebrating seder in other contexts is a great opportunity to let alex and colin know about something that is, after all, part of their heritage--even though you and your father are not jewish, there are jewish people on that side of your family. and anyway, it's a great holiday--it's very easy to make it relevant to the world today, alas.