Washington Post staff writer Caryle Murphy reported on March 27th the experience of Jewish students sitting around the table. Along with the seder plate, a matzoh plate and kiddush cup, there was the ‘Signs of the Seder’ for the group of students at Gallaudet are conducting the Seder. This pamphlet “had drawings showing the appropriate way to express what was happening in sign language…” “Since this is an all-deaf-led Seder, this will be an ultimate experience for me,” Sophie Shifra-Gold, 20, a sophomore said during Monday night’s rehearsal. “Where I come from, all are hearing and I have to deal with my mother interpreting.” With the entire Seder being signed, Shifra-Gold adds, “the communication is clear for everyone to understand.” This Seder is part of the revival of Jewish student activism that began with establishment in January of a campus chapter of Hillel, the national Jewish student organization which now has about 25 members. “Being Jewish at Gallaudet can be lonely and isolating at times,” Micah S. Brown, 21, a sophomore from Portland, Oregon is quoted in an e-mail, “Being active in Hillel helps reassure myself that I am not the only observant Deaf Jew on campus or in the world.” Brown, president of the Hillel chapter, says while it is easy for most Jewish college students to find a Jewish community off campus, for Gallaudet’s Jewish students, estimated to number between 50 and 150, “it is far more difficult . . . because of the language barrier that exists between the Deaf and hearing worlds.”