The shared themes between Passover and the labor movement took center stage at the UFT Jewish Heritage Committee’s annual Labor Seder on March 26. More than 60 attendees gathered at the UFT Brooklyn borough office to share in the traditional ritual meal with an emphasis on collective action. “When we think about the story of Passover, we think about the exodus from slavery,” Jason Goldberg, the committee’s chairperson, said, explaining the UFT event is meant to be more than tradition. “We want not just a holiday celebration, but a call to action.” First-time attendee Margot Weinstock, a District 3 school psychologist, said the seder was “upbeat, meaningful and inclusive.” Jason Klein, a teacher at Medgar Evers College Preparatory School in Brooklyn, said it reaffirmed the Jewish value of tikkun olam, or repairing the world. “Making sure the rights of workers are improved is a way of performing tikkun olam,” he said, and he hoped attendees from outside the Jewish community “came away with a positive feeling of what Passover is all about.”