The plate

I should mention that the plate in the picture has all the traditional parts of the seder plate--the roasted shankbone, representative of the burnt offering (the paschal lamb) from the old temple, the bitter herbs, the roasted egg (spring and fertility), the charoset, and in the middle of all this ancient stuff, an orange. The orange got there because some smug rabbi or other once said, "A woman belongs on the bimah [the stage in the synagogue, where the Torah is kept] like an orange belongs on a seder plate!" That was all Jewish women had to hear; from that time onwards, we put an orange on the plate to declare our defiance of that attitude.