Seder

MLK’s Dayenu Moment

This past weekend, as I gathered for Passover seders, first with my family and friends, and then with my congregation, ...

Claiming Our Spiritual Ancestry

In the year 2000, I was still a newly-minted Jew, having completed my conversion in March of 1999. As Passover ...

Seder Variations – A Passover Tradition!

I love Passover.I love spending time with my family, I love the food, and I love that we have a ...

Passover Isn’t What it Used to Be – And Why That’s a Good Thing!

One of the most oft-repeated themes of the Torah is that we must remember that we were slaves and strangers ...

ProcrastiNation

Why do we eat Matzah on Passover? As we read in the Haggadah:Because the dough of our fathers did not have ...

Create Your Best, and Most Personal, Passover Seder

Looking to change-up your seder this year? Archie Gottesman, FJC board member and self-proclaimed Marketing Jewru has spent the past ...

A Very Pregnant Passover

April 2015 has been on my mind for a while. Since last September, to be exact, when I began counting ...

All About Those Plagues – A Passover Parody

This is the second year that my congregation, B’nai Shalom in Westborough MA, has produced a Passover Parody video – ...

Leading Seder for the First Time

This was my first Pesach away from home. I am a first-year college student and although I love my college and ...

Southern Seders on the Passover Pilgrimage

Right now, Rabbi Matt Dreffin and Rabbi Marshal Klaven are in the midst of the Passover Pilgrimage, journeying to communities ...

A Dog at the Seder

As a child, the great Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas noticed that dogs appear in Torah at a crucial moment. On ...

Passover Doesn’t End With the Exodus

This Monday night Jews around the world will sit down at their tables and embark on recreating the narrative of ...