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Passover Kashrut Questions and Answers

Passover Kashrut Questions and Answers

...buy beforehand. There are lots of options in those categories. Q: Are canned sweet potatoes with year-round hekhsher (ingredients: sweet potatoes, water, sugar) kosher ...

Passover

...Passover Checklist 🍚 Kitniyot Why Doesn’t This Sephardi Jew Eat Rice on Passover? Embracing Kitniyot on Passover How to Incorporate Kitniyot into Your Passover ...
The Passover Preparation Checklist

The Passover Preparation Checklist

How to prepare for Passover? What do you need to do to prepare for Passover? Your 30-Day-ish (or less) Steps To Prepare for Passover ...
The Weird and Wacky World of Kosher for Passover

The Weird and Wacky World of Kosher for Passover

...Exodus 12:15-20 To be clear, no one will be cut off from the Jewish community for their level of Passover observance. And yet, the ...

What Can I Eat on Passover?

...a hekhsher for Passover, and foods that do not need a Passover hekhsher if purchased before Passover There’s also kitniyot, which we’ll get into ...
Embracing Kitniyot on Passover

Embracing Kitniyot on Passover

...that kitniyot brings can transform the Passover experience from one of restrictive menus to one of gastronomic exploration.  Imagine a Passover table featuring dishes ...
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Passover Themes, The Month of Nisan, and the Fast of the Firstborn

...individuals. Passover as History and Destiny Passover, widely known by its Hebrew name, Pesaḥ (also spelled Pesach, Pesah), commemorates the exodus from Egypt. On ...
How to Incorporate Kitniyot into Your Passover

How to Incorporate Kitniyot into Your Passover

This piece is part of Exploring Judaism’s 5784 Passover Reader. Download the whole reader here. Being Sephardi in an Ashkenazi world, especially on Passover ...
A Guide To Your First Passover Seder

A Guide To Hosting Your First Passover Seder

...kitchen, especially for Passover. Read more Answering key and specific questions about kashrut, kashering utensils, and food in the context of Passover. Read more ...
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Passover Reader 5784: Not A Haggadah

Passover is a powerful story of redemption and liberation. One of the core ways we orient ourselves to those themes is with an organized ...
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Tips for Passover with Toddlers

...little one in the Passover celebration. Explain away. First and foremost, the more you can describe what and why you are doing something for ...

Kashering Your Passover Kitchen: The 5786 Guide

...fully clean for 24 hours before kashering. Here’s how I approach this—and how the Rabbinical Assembly’s Passover Guide helps me to kasher my Passover ...
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Biur and S’mores: Have Fun As You Get Rid of Hametz

...donate to a Jewish food pantry to help clients to have Passover food. SELL: Symbolically sell your hametz through a local rabbi. SEARCH & ...

A Passover Reading List for Nisan 

...that has been long overdue. If you’re looking to tie your Passover seder to current events: The Promise of Liberty: A Passover Haggada edited ...
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What is Hameitz and what do we do with it?

...the night before Passover after sundown. (This search takes place on Thursday evening when the first night of Passover falls on Saturday night.) Since, ...
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Passover in the Synagogue

ES | FR What kinds of changes occur in Passover services in synagogue? The Evening Service Before Passover The Evening Passover Service follows the ...
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Friday Night Shabbat at Home

...just food. Prayers, rituals, songs, and words of Torah combine to create a unique experience rich in symbolism and meaning. Although far less structured ...
Engaging Kids of All Ages in the Passover Seder

Engaging Kids of All Ages in the Passover Seder

This piece is part of Exploring Judaism’s 5784 Passover Reader. Download the whole reader here. “They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat,” ...
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The Concluding Days of Passover

The seventh and eighth days are the concluding days of Passover and are full festival days. (In Israel, there is no eighth day at ...
Passover Printables

Passover Printables

...Download our full Passover reader from 2024/5784 with readings and reflections for the entire Passover holiday. Download Count the Omer Starting on the second ...
Mujaddara on Passover

Mujaddara on Passover

...her special kosher-for-passover blueberry muffins and smoothies, my mom had Passover cooking down to a science. She’d found about ten dishes that a) passed ...
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The Seder: An Overview

ES | FR Table of Contents The Passover seder is, for many Jews, the most important ritual feast of the year. Indeed, recent studies ...
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7 Tips for Hosting Your First Passover Seder

Passover is the ultimate DIY holiday. While many Jewish rituals center around the synagogue and are led by clergy – Passover seders take place ...
Special Shabbats leading up to Purim and Passover

What are the Special Sabbaths Before Purim and Passover?

A series of Sabbaths with special Torah readings precedes Purim and Passover. Shabbat Shekalim In ancient times, all Jews were expected to help finance ...
What to Read to Prepare for the High Holidays this Year

What to Read to Prepare for the High Holidays this Year

...day performance, Rosh HaShannah and Yom Kippur. Elul, the month leading to RH & YK is ‘spring training’. Elul is ‘Couch to 5K’. Take ...

What’s the Minimum I Need to Pray in the Morning?

...practice, but because it became a normative practice, major halakhic codifications assume that it is obligatory. (Page 6) As a result, the authors recommend ...
The Biblical Basis of Democracy (1948)

The Biblical Basis of Democracy (1948)

...was the period of the bondage in Egypt. Every page of the Bible recalls the period of misery and suffering Israel had undergone. The ...
On Passover, We Are All Jews-By-Choice

On Passover, We Are All Jews-By-Choice

This piece is part of Exploring Judaism’s 5784 Passover Reader. Download the whole reader here. My first-ever Passover seder as a Jew-by-Choice felt like ...

Juneteenth and Pesach Sheni

What does the Second Passover teach us about celebrating Juneteenth? Juneteenth is a celebration of delayed liberation. The Torah has a delayed celebration of ...
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Passover Torah Readings: An Explainer

...prohibited. The First Day of Passover On the first day of Pesach, two Torah scrolls are read from. In the first, which serves as ...
Climate Disruption and Passover

Climate Disruption and Passover

This piece is part of Exploring Judaism’s 5784 Passover Reader. Download the whole reader here. One of the things that has always struck me ...
Dayenu A Passover Message

Dayenu: A Passover Message

...been enough!  But this year, as we stare down our second Passover without the return of all the hostages taken on Oct. 7, 2023, ...
When Can a Passover Seder Start Early?

When Can a Passover Seder Start Early? Other Festivals?

One question that comes up every year for Passover seders is: Can we start the seder early? For many reasons, many people struggle to ...
What the Passover Seder Plate (Ke'arah) Teaches Us

What the Passover Seder Plate (Ke’arah) Teaches Us

...sources. However, the command to eat special foods on Passover night is already anchored in the biblical Exodus (Exodus 12:8): “They shall eat the ...
What do we do differently at a Saturday Night Seder?

What do we do differently at a Saturday Night Seder?

When Passover begins on a Saturday night, as it does this year (April 12th, 2025), we change the schedule of preparation and adjust the ...

USY Passover Message

Every year on Passover, we set a table big enough to hold our entire story. We gather family, friends, and generations of memories around ...

Holidays

...as we have done for millennia. On this page, you will find links to our many holiday pages. These pages include articles that explain ...
Why Doesn’t This Sephardi Jew Eat Rice on Passover?

Why Doesn’t This Sephardi Jew Eat Rice on Passover?

...more and more Ashkenazi Jews have embraced the Conservative Movement’s lifting of this ban says, I find myself wondering what all of the excitement ...
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Spiritually Cleaning the Hametz Within Our Souls

It is easy to approach Passover with a complete focus on the process of physically cleaning our kitchens, ridding our homes of every particle ...
Why Is Diversity Important at the Passover Seder?

Why Is Diversity Important at the Passover Seder?

...small city where many close friends are ex-(or not-so-ex-)Southern Baptists. Is Passover an Interfaith Holiday? Much of the story of Passover is rooted in ...
Embracing Change: A Call to Rethink the Passover Seder Plate

Embracing Change: A Call to Rethink the Passover Seder Plate

This piece is part of Exploring Judaism’s 5784 Passover Reader. Download the whole reader here. Each spring, as we gather for a Passover seder, ...

Tired of Gefilte Fish? Try These Sephardic Passover Fish Recipes!

Pesach is approaching! It’s time for families to clean out chametz and prepare their kitchens for festive seder meals. This includes choosing which Passover ...
Biur Hametz Why the Preparation of a Mitzvah Is the Point

Biur Hametz: Why the Preparation of a Mitzvah Is the Point

Passover can be a stressful holiday. Whether you are meticulously cleaning the house of hametz, crafting the best menu for seder, picking out a ...

Ten Torah Resources You Should Know

The internet is vast, literally billions and billions of pages. How are we supposed to find the amazing Torah online without some help? That’s ...
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Passover: An Invitation to Get Free

This piece is part of Exploring Judaism’s 5784 Passover Reader. Download the whole reader here. Passover, in Hebrew Pesach, is the holiday of getting ...

Passover Q&A

Every year, the Rabbinical Assembly publishes a Pesah Kashrut Guide to help us with the many steps for preparing for Passover. You can find ...

A Part of Grandma, A Part of Me

...shoes. Passover was when her family got new shoes for spring and summer. For her, Passover was not just a holiday or meal, but ...
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Freedom and Food Allergies

...food allergies to eggs, nuts, and peanuts. Passover was just around the corner and its overriding theme of freedom felt like a total mockery. ...
Why I Change the Melodies: Exploring Keva and Kavanah

Why I Change the Melodies: Exploring Keva and Kavanah

...(fixed) in our prayer book. We recite it daily during Pesukei Desimrah (the Preliminary service), and also chant it both on Shabbat Shira with ...
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Leveraging Anger for Change this Passover

...frustration, and judgment can be key elements of perpetual stress and dissatisfaction, well-placed and mindful approaches to tapping into our anger can move our ...
5 Myths about Jewish Prayer

5 Myths about Jewish Prayer

...with the strong encouragement to eventually transition into Hebrew. 2. It has to be what’s on the page Let’s not get it twisted: it ...

Guiding Questions: Psalms 141

...Psalms 141:5 is the castigation or criticism of a righteous person desirable or to be resisted? Translation of page 1588 in the JPS, Psalms ...
Doing Teshuvah Outside of Communal Prayers

Doing Teshuvah Outside of Communal Prayers

...we must pursue teshuvah on our own.” Suggestions on how to fulfill the mitzvah of teshuvah: Engaging in the liturgy and prayer, such as ...

We Will Rehang the Mezuzah

...wanted to hurt us. People who wanted to see us erased. But that hatred always lived somewhere else. In another country. In another century. ...
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How to Make your Zoom Seder not Suck

Back in the days of the late 2010s, Passover seders were known for being grand celebrations! Many synagogues and Jewish Community Centers set up ...
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Hosting a Seder for People New to Judaism or the Seder

So, you’re hosting a seder and you are expecting guests who might be new to Judaism or new to Passover? Well, my friend, you ...
Slavery, Social Justice, and Family History

Slavery, Social Justice, and Family History

This piece is part of Exploring Judaism’s 5784 Passover Reader. Download the whole reader here. The Pilgrimage to the South with the Racial Justice ...
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What is Counting the Omer

Counting the omer highlights the agricultural dimension of the festivals of Passover and Shavuot. In ancient times, a measure of the first barley to ...

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...ongoing cycle of oppression and freedom. “B’khol dor vador—in every generation one must see oneself as ... Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal March 30, 2026 Passover ...
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Bringing Teens to the Seder Table

...serving – they are in charge. Theater? Use a children’s book with the Passover story as a script, ask your teen to gather props ...
All Who Are Hungry and In Need Come Eat

All Who Are Hungry and In Need, Come Celebrate Pesach

This piece is part of Exploring Judaism’s 5784 Passover Reader. Download the whole reader here. The unstated magic of the Passover Seder is that ...
The Magic of Bedikat Hametz

The Magic of Bedikat Hametz

This piece is part of Exploring Judaism’s 5784 Passover Reader. Download the whole reader here. Passover is almost here. You have cleaned the house, ...
This is the Bread of Affliction

This is the Bread of Affliction

This piece is part of Exploring Judaism’s 5784 Passover Reader. Download the whole reader here. Normally, when we get to the early part in ...
Pharaoh’s Hardened Heart and the Nature of Free Will 

Pharaoh’s Hardened Heart and the Nature of Free Will

If you’ve been to a Passover Seder, watched The Prince of Egypt, or you’ve read the actual text, you likely know the basic outline ...

What are the Shavuot Torah Readings About?

Shavuot is perhaps one of the most underappreciated Jewish holidays of the year. Always falling seven weeks after the onset of Passover, it finds ...
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Counting The Omer

...centuries. Counting up, up, up! Counting the Omer, sefirat haomer, is a daily mitzvah from the second night of Passover until Shavuot. Seven weeks ...

The Secrets of Matzah

This piece is part of Exploring Judaism’s 5784 Passover Reader. Download the whole reader here. I am a big fan of Anthony Bourdain, the ...

Shavuot

...23rd. Common Questions about Shavuot: What is Shavuot? Shavuot is a holiday, 50 days from Passover, that commemorates the barley harvest and the giving ...
blurry image of a set table How to Make a Seder for Everyone

How to Make a Seder for Everyone

This piece is part of Exploring Judaism’s 5784 Passover Reader. Download the whole reader here. My all-time favorite seder – and my most diverse ...
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How to Kasher Your Kitchen: A Simplified Guide

This is a simplified guide on how to kasher (make kosher) various items in your kitchen, especially for Passover. For further more robust instructions, ...
When is the Jewish New Year?

When is the Jewish New Year?

...12:1 that Nisan, the month of Passover, be “the first of the year’s months for you.”) Rosh Hashanah celebrates the birth of the world ...
The Living Room Seder

The Living Room Seder

This piece is part of Exploring Judaism’s 5784 Passover Reader. Download the whole reader here. “Ma nishtana halilah ha zeh.” Why is this night ...

Blood on the Doorposts—Faith, Pride and Hope

...Passover this year comes amidst great challenge—Israelis facing further attacks and resurgent antisemitism in North America and around the world. It also comes in ...
What do I do on a long Shabbat Afternoon?

What do I do on a long Shabbat Afternoon?

...of paper and the pages of a thick book. Shabbat afternoon is also a great opportunity to invite friends or neighbors to visit. When ...
Expanding Our Embrace: A Reflection on Inclusion

Expanding Our Embrace: A Reflection on Inclusion

...transliterated prayers in our siddurim, infrequent calling of page numbers at services, and day-to-day references to Hebrew words, phrases, and Halakha that were not ...
Prayer Expresses Petition, Praise, Anger, and History

Prayer Expresses Petition, Praise, Anger, and History

...also an opportunity to step into the flowing stream of Jewish history and to take our places in the pageant of events stretching from ...
Rituals of Sukkot

Rituals of Sukkot

...Golinkin, Editor. 1997 Proceedings of the Jewish Law and Standards Committee of the Conservative Movement 1927 – 1970, Volume Three: Responsa. Pages 1228-1272 (Yom ...
Hanukkah Candle Lighting

How to light the Hanukkah Candles

...for the first time that evening (SA Orach Chayim 676:5). Blessings Click here for a Hanukkah Blessings 1-Pager from the Rabbinical Assembly. After the ...
Planning my Queer Halakhic Jewish Wedding

Planning my Queer Halakhic Jewish Wedding

...Page 16 of this document):  “Let it be known that our souls are bound one to the other with bonds of love and mutual ...
Shabbat Morning Services: What to Expect

Shabbat Morning Services: What to Expect

...communal lead-in beforehand or repetition afterwards. While the Amidah can be a wonderful time to delve into the language of our ancestors through words ...
What Do People Think About While Praying?

What Do People Think About While Praying?

...finished early and are waiting for the service to continue. Others are silently flipping through pages, or are mouthing the words of the liturgy. ...

EJ Blessings App

...app You can use this webapp as just a webpage, but if you want to install it on your phone: Open the webapp via ...
What Can I Expect at My First Rosh Hashanah Services?

What Can I Expect at My First Rosh Hashanah Services?

...service can be powerful, finding your own individual connection to the experience matters, too. Please feel welcome to: Read and explore the commentary and ...

How to Shake the Lulav and Etrog

...practice in their communities. Download printable 1 pager Download infographic The Blessings The blessing upon taking the lulav and etrog is: בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה׳ ...
Non-Fasting Sh"tz on Yom Kippur

Non-Fasting Sh”tz on Yom Kippur

...page 13-17) Ruling and Summary “A person who is unable to fast on Yom Kippur for medical reasons (as defined in the introduction above), ...

Ongoing Crisis in Israel

Search Results for: passover page See more from Exploring Judaism on the ongoing crisis in Israel. As events unfold, we will continue to keep ...
Being a Conservative Jew in Jerusalem

A Conservative Jew in Jerusalem

...than that “on-the-same-page” feeling—like when the destination sign on the front of the Egged bus flickers “Moadim l’simcha” (the way to say Chag Sameach, ...
Adding Some Shenanigans to your Purim

Adding Some Shenanigans to your Purim

...We’ve put together 15 versions of the board for you to play with and a slips page to make the gameplay easier. Purim Bingo ...
Finding Quiet Solace in a Stormy World

Finding Quiet Solace in a Stormy World

...but if we take a page out of Ya’akov’s book—Ya’akov’s siddur—then we’ll realize that action was part of the keva the entire time. And ...
Le Seder Un Aperçu

Le seder : un aperçu

...les rituels correctement. Certaines familles apprécient que tous les participants aient la même édition de la Haggada en face d’eux, afin que chacun puisse ...
Why You Should Listen to Holocaust Testimonials

Why You Should Listen to Holocaust Testimonials

...in their eyes can shake you to your core more than any story on a page ever can. Imagining the person before you, and ...
What is Tishah Be’av and how is it observed?

What is Tishah Be’av and how is it observed?

...human evil and cannot tolerate any sort of theological justification. Others find a kind of solace in connecting the events of the Shoah to ...
Blurry image of a havdalah set with a hand reflecting off of the candle with the words: Super Simple Guide: How to do Havdalah

Super Simple Guide: How to Do Havdalah

...ritual is complete. Some have the custom of singing various songs like, Eliyahu haNavi and Hamavdeel Bein Kodesh L’Chol. You can find the Rabbinical ...
How to Prevent High Holiday Burnout

How to Prevent High Holiday Burnout

...life, communicate beforehand, deciding how tasks will be divided. Create a game plan and ensure you are both on the same page. If you ...
A Talmudic Reading Of The High Holiday Prayer Un’taneh Tokef

A Talmudic Reading Of The High Holiday Prayer Un’taneh Tokef

...same page of Talmud as R. Yizhaq’s High Holiday “sermon,” we find the now-famous statement that, on Rosh Hashanah, God opens the Book of ...
Spiritual Balance and Teshuvah

Spiritual Balance and Teshuvah

...perhaps the mode of Teshuvat haBa’ah, being in the same or similar situation again and not erring, is a tough ideal to aspire to. ...
Tanakh Yomi: The Beauty Of Daily Study

Tanakh Yomi: The Beauty Of Daily Study

...learn.   Every person’s study experience with Tanakh is simultaneously unique and unifying. May we all learn and grow together in the days to come. ...
What to expect when going to a B-Mitzvah?

What to expect when going to a B-Mitzvah?

...your seat. The page in the Siddur will usually be announced from time to time. Find a place to sit, try to listen, and ...
The Eight Steps to Learn to Lead a Prayer Service

The Eight Steps to Learn to Lead a Prayer Service

...to stand and sit, which parts of the service are usually done aloud or quietly, the pace and rhythm of the service, the page ...
How to Light Shabbat Candles: A Beginner’s Guide

How to Light Shabbat Candles: A Beginner’s Guide

...beforehand, to be certain you have not lit the candles too late. The exact time varies depending on your location, so check out Exploring ...