PASSOVER RESOURCES FOR DAYS
Seriously. For days.
By Leah Jalfon, MHWOW Program Coordinator
Growing up, my family’s Passover tradition was for each of us to invite a non-Jewish friend to our “Barefoot Seder” to experience the holiday for the first time. Whatever your traditions are, you now have the opportunity to continue those traditions or create your own.
I asked our Jewish educators for their favorite Passover resources and they came back with SO many great resources to help you create an unforgettable Seder. I’m hosting my first Seder this year, and I was nervous until I read these resources. Now — no lie — I feel super equipped to create an amazing experience.
Whether you’ve hosted plenty of Passover Seders or you’ve never hosted one before, we have something for you.
From Faustine Sigal, International Director of Jewish Education
“This resource guide is grouped into the following six categories.
All of the categories include documents of different nature, tone and perspective. Feel free to make your own way in here.
1. What happened? The story of the Exodus
2. Seder: what and how
3. 50 shades of Haggadah
4. Pessah treasures of our past and present
5. Food (of course)
6. Pessah cleaning: why and how
Also the Pardes Pessah Companion has great quality material!”
From Rabbi Brad Greenstein, Senior Director of Jewish Learning
1. Here is a Google Drive file with great resources — ideas for a Mimouna celebration (what’s that?!), custom Moishe House Haggadahs, as well as a large resource doc with great pieces to add to one’s Seder (interesting activities, text studies, songs, and pictures)
2. For ideas to incorporate modern-day slavery, refugees, and global hunger into your Seder discussions check out these 9 Global Justice Haggadot
3. Want to make your own Haggadah? Check out haggadot.com where you can drag and drop to create your own Haggadah. Also pick and choose ideas from the beast of a Haggadah recently compiled for our recent 2018 MoHo Passover Retreat
From Olya Elshanksy, RSJ Director of Jewish Education:
Click HERE for some traditional ashkenazi recipes for Pesach with interesting funny stories!
