During the Passover seder, some Jews place an orange among the traditional symbolic foods on the seder plate. The new practice probably evolved from a ritual created by Jewish Studies scholar Susanna Heschel, who added the orange to the plate as a symbol of the fruitfulness of tolerance in a gesture of solidarity with gays and lesbians. The title of Harriete Berman's work refers to an apocryphal story said to have inspired the new feminist ritual, in which a man exclaimed, "A woman belongs on the bimah as much as an orange belongs on a seder plate!" during a heated discussion about ordaining women rabbis.