Pesach

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 ...

Pesah— Hag HaHinukh: The Holiday of Education

Jewish tradition has four names for the Passover Holiday—Hag HaAviv (the Spring Festival), Hag HaMatsot (the Holiday of Unleavened Bread), ...

Passover Parody – “Let Us Go!”

While we certainly were not the first to realize how much fun it would be to re-write the words to ...

Three Ways to Engage Children and Adults at Your Seder

The HaggadahWhen my family sits down to the seder table, we won’t be passing around the Maxwell House Hagaddahs. We ...

Preparing for Pesach My Way

The seder is my favorite Jewish ritual, and every year, I have the best of intentions. In line with the ...

Rituals and Relationships to Enhance Your Passover Seder

This week, my partner and I sat down to plan our seder. For us, this involves much more than deciding ...

Prepping for Passover Amid Grief and Taxes

It is the day before Passover and everyone has a yahrtzeit but me.My mother’s mother collapsed on seder night, ten days before her young grandson ...

Freedom From Passover Is Freedom, Too

The story of Passover, and the Exodus from Egypt, involves the oppressor (Pharaoh and the Egyptians) and the oppressed and ...

It’s Over…or Is It?

Passover has passed us over and last night’s dinner was a veritable chametz -fest. “But wait!” you shout, “Passover isn’t ...