The Downtown Seder 2020

Replay the live stream from April 6, 2020 (6PM ET)

Featuring

Comedian LEWIS BLACK talking Bitter Herbs

DAVID BROZA & PETER YARROW singing hits from the Exodus

JUDY GOLD'S annual Dayyenu

A musical Dayyenu from PERRY FERRELL

Redemption by SPEECH of Arrested Development

Congressman JERRY NADLER asking four important questions

AL FRANKEN from his shower

MAX WEINBERG drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band

Comedian SETH HERZOG does the 10 plagues

PAUL SHAPIRO, CATHERINE RUSSELL, LANGHORNE SLIM, RABBI AMICHAI LAU-LAVIE of Lab Shul

Comedians SANDRA BERHNARD and JOEL CHASNOFF

Super Mensch SHEP GORDON

Musician RACHAEL SAGE

Our favorite sex therapist DR. RUTH

EDAFE OKPORO, HUNTER JOHANNSON, BETTY and many more...

More than twenty artists, thinkers, and entertainers will join live in this unprecedented gathering as we wander together through the quarantine desert; an ancient dinner party that transcends religion and provokes new thinking in a world hungry for order.

"Half postmodern religious ritual and half cabaret"
- JEWISH LEARNING MAGAZINE

"More dreadlocks than yarmulkes, with Lou Reed as the "bad child", Phillip Glass and more, it felt like a cross between summer camp in the Catskills and a progressive jazz concert,"
- THE NEW YORK TIMES, APRIL 27, 1997
(That's right, been doing it a long time!)

"Easy to understand why City Winery's Downtown Seder will differ from all other Seders, if only about the wine..."
- ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES

"The hippest Seder on Earth, more deconstructionalist than Reconstructionist"
- THE FORWARD