Tag: Seder

El Séder: Un Resumen

El Séder de Pesaj es, para muchos judíos, la fiesta ritual más importante del año.

Masorti Olami, The Rabbi Reuven Hammer Institute for Masorti Jewish Learning April 11, 2024 Holidays How to observe Passover

Le seder : un aperçu

Le seder de Pessah est pour de nombreux juifs, le repas rituel le plus important de l’année.

Masorti Olami, The Rabbi Reuven Hammer Institute for Masorti Jewish Learning April 11, 2024 Holidays How to observe Passover

Reparations: The Difficulty and Bravery and Asking

Reparations: The Difficulty and Bravery of Asking

Look at reparations and the difficulty and bravery of asking, through the lens of slavery in Egypt, slavery in America, and the Holocaust.

Rabbi-Cantor Michael McCloskey April 5, 2024 Holidays Passover

How I Dip Maror in Charoset

Wrapping and dipping maror in charoset at Seder can be part of a family tradition. Explore this one to add more to your own Seder ...

Hazzan Sara Geffen Geller April 5, 2024 Holidays Passover

B’khol Dor Vador—In Every Generation

What does "b'khol dor vador—in every generation" mean in light of the events of October 7? How does this connect us to Passover?

Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal March 27, 2024 Holidays Passover

How a Show Like “Succession” Illuminates the Four Children

How can a show like "Succession" illuminate the Seder? Compare the Four Children of our haggadah with the four Roy children.

Rabbi Adam J. Rosenbaum March 27, 2024 Holidays Passover

Back to Our Roots

Learn about the Wicked Child of the Four Children by going back to our roots and looking at the meaning of the Hebrew word itself.

Rabbi Adir Yolkut March 27, 2024 Holidays Passover

The Living Room Seder

Hosting a living room Seder can allow us to experience a Seder closer to the way that the rabbis thought of it.

Melissa Werbow March 27, 2024 Holidays Passover

Dip Your Karpas in Salt Water and Honey?

Dipping Karpas into salt water at the Passover Seder has a mysterious history that invites us to create new dipping and meaning opportunities!

Rabbi Jeremy Markiz March 27, 2024 Holidays How to observe Passover

On Passover, We Are All Jews-By-Choice

On Passover, we are all Jews-by-Choice when we choose to remember what it is that brings us together for the holiday.

Andi Kahclamat March 27, 2024 Conversion Holidays

All Who Are Hungry and In Need, Come Celebrate Pesach

Through the seder, we learn the importance of hospitality and inviting all who are hungry and in need, to come celebrate Pesach.

Rabbi Daniel J. Isaak March 27, 2024 Holidays How to observe Passover

The Seder as a Lived Experience

We use the Seder as a lived experience by reenacting the exodus, not just recounting it. Therefore, we can all connect to Passover.

Rabbi Lauren Tuchman March 27, 2024 Holidays Passover

Embracing Change: A Call to Rethink the Passover Seder Plate

How and why can you create a plant-based seder plate? We embrace change during Passover, especially in rethinking the seder plate.

Rabbi Jonathan Bernhard, Executive Director - Jewish Initiative for Animals, Kayla Kaplan, M.S. March 13, 2024 Holidays Passover

Engaging Kids of All Ages in the Passover Seder

Engaging kids of all ages in the Passover seder can feel daunting. Here are my top five tips for engaging everyone at the seder.

Rabbi Rebecca Rosenthal March 13, 2024 Holidays Passover

How to Incorporate Kitniyot into Your Passover

Though the Conservative Movement has allowed eating kitniyot on Passover, many still do not. How can we incorporate kitniyot this year?

Nathalie Ross February 29, 2024 Every Day Food

Passover Reader 5784: Not A Haggadah

Exploring Judaism's 2024 (5784) Passover Reader, Not A Haggadah, includes essays to inspire a meaningful Passover.

Exploring Judaism February 25, 2024 Holidays How to observe Passover

This is the Bread of Affliction

This is the bread of affliction: Matzah adorns our Seder plates and nourishes our souls, as well—this food is fulfilling.

Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman December 26, 2023 Food Holidays

Yachatz: Brokenness and Wholeness

One explanation offered by the Sages for Yachatz in the seder is that it helps promote making the world less broken, if not completely whole.

Rabbi Dr. J.B. Sacks April 3, 2023 Holidays Passover

Climate Disruption and Passover

Let’s do more than remember our refugee origin story and include how climate change and disruption are leading to new refugees.

Yaira Robinson April 3, 2023 Climate and Environment Climate change

Why Is Diversity Important at the Passover Seder?

This is why I think my family's tradition of inviting a non-Jew each year to the Passover seder is important.

Emily Jaeger March 19, 2023 Holidays How to observe Passover

When Can a Passover Seder Start Early? Other Festivals?

When is the earliest time that we can begin observing Jewish festivals, on first or second day of Yom Tov, in particular, the Passover seder?

Exploring Judaism March 19, 2023 CJLS Halakhah

A Guide To Hosting Your First Passover Seder

It can be daunting to prepare for your first seder. We've put together a collection of great posts that will help you get started.

Exploring Judaism February 20, 2023 Holidays Passover

The Important Thing That Keeps our Family “Doing Jewish”

The most important thing to teach the next generation is how to make a seder, including what comes before the festival candles are even lit.

Atty Garfinkel-Berry April 13, 2022 Food Passover

When the COVID Plague Threatens Your Seder (Again)

Here are 10 tips on how to make Pesah meaningful and kosher (enough) even when the plague of COVID continues to threaten our celebrations.

Rabbi Ilana C. Garber April 13, 2022 Passover Passover Reflections

The Four Children and Racial Justice

We approach the Haggadah at a time of profound racial reckoning in our country. How might the four children help us relate to racial justice?

Rabbi Amy Eilberg April 6, 2022 Passover Passover Reflections

Mah Nishtanah: How Is This Moment Different?

Mah Nishtanah: How is This Moment Different by Rabbi Rachel Ain is a reflection on her recent trip to Ukraine in 2022.

Rabbi Rachel Ain April 6, 2022 Passover Passover Reflections

The Sunflower on Our Seder Table

The Sunflower on Our Seder Table by Rabbi Ilana Garber on behalf of the people in Ukraine in 2022.

Rabbi Ilana C. Garber April 6, 2022 Passover Passover Prayer

All Who Are Hungry: A Prayer for Action, A Prayer for Ukraine

All Who Are Hungry: A Prayer for Action, A Prayer for Ukraine by Rabbi Mark Greenspan on behalf of the people in Ukraine in 2022.

Rabbi Mark Greenspan April 6, 2022 Passover Passover Prayer

How to Make a Seder for Everyone

The key to hosting a successful seder for everyone is to articulate a bold purpose in gathering and map the journey.

Rabbi Lauren Henderson April 5, 2022 Passover Preparing for Passover

Dedication for First Cup of Wine

Dedication for the First Cup of Wine at the Passover Seder by Rabbi Martin S. Cohen on behalf of the people in Ukraine in 2022.

Rabbi Martin S. Cohen April 5, 2022 Passover Passover Prayer

How to Make your Zoom Seder not Suck

Hosting a Zoom seder is not just putting a webcam on your seder plate. These tips will ensure your guests won’t succumb to Zoom fatigue.

Eric M. Leiderman April 3, 2022 How to observe Passover Passover

Hosting a Seder for People New to Judaism or the Seder

The Seder is a potpourri of powerful rituals, wise rabbinic aphorisms, and opportunities to elevate the mundanities of eating into holiness.

Rabbi Adir Yolkut April 3, 2022 How to observe Passover Passover

Ask the Questions and Dig Deeper

Combining lessons from the Mishnah and Human Resources, we realize that asking questions is the path to greater understanding.

Chaim H. Respes April 3, 2022 Passover Passover Reflections

Tips for Passover with Toddlers

After all of the preparation, all that’s left to do is celebrate the holiday. How do you do that with your young children?

Sarah Pila-Leiderman March 31, 2022 Passover Passover with Children

7 Tips for Hosting Your First Passover Seder

If this is your first-time hosting a Passover Seder, here are seven tips to make it a memorable and meaningful experience!

Rabbi Adam Greenwald March 30, 2022 How to observe Passover Passover

Freedom and Food Allergies

How is one with food allergies supposed to feel free when they can’t partake in the matzo balls, charoset, cake, or anything else?

Rachel Packer March 29, 2022 Food Health

Bringing Teens to the Seder Table

We have the opportunity to help teens create long-lasting positive connections to the very traditions they are appropriately questioning.

Rabbi Janet Ozur Bass March 29, 2022 Passover Passover with Children

Including non-Jewish guests at our Seder: A reflection

Reflecting on the universal nature of the Exodus, as "eternally contemporary; it’s the story of too many peoples."

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg March 29, 2022 Passover Passover Reflections

The Seder: An Overview

The Passover seder is the cumulative result of untold generations of Jews telling the same story, the Exodus from Egypt.

Rabbi Alan Lucas, The Observant Life (Book) March 22, 2022 How to observe Passover Passover

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