Tag: Seder
JDC offers annual Passover food packages, educational activities via Zoom
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), is reaching widening global audiences this Passover with hundreds of online events, holiday content and its century-old tradition of delivering matzah to Jews in need.
While in-person activities...
Orthodox Union releases its ‘Guide to Passover’ 2021
The Orthodox Union has released its annual “Guide to Passover,” which provides comprehensive guidance about kosher-for-Passover products.
This year’s edition, available in both PDF and online database formats, features nearly 30,000 kosher-for-Passover products and charts...
OneTable offers resources and guidance for meaningful, safe Passover seders
At a time when people are feeling isolated and in need of meaningful connection, OneTable, which empowers people to envision new rituals and build community through Shabbat dinner experiences, is helping boost the Passover seder.
To...
The story that Jews repeat on Passover is the secret of their survival
As Jews around the world celebrate the festival of Passover this week, the ironies are painful.
The festival celebrates the pivotal biblical event that followed Pharaoh’s refusal to free his Hebrew slaves. The last and...
JDC deploys digital Passover resources to connect global Jewish communities
To connect the global Jewish community for its first Passover in the age of social distancing, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or JDC, is deploying special online and digital holiday tools to help...
Netanyahu announces strict seder-night lockdown
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday night declared a strict lockdown for the night of the Passover Seder, including a curfew on Wednesday night from 6 p.m. until Thursday morning at 7 a.m.,...
More than 8,500 Passover meals delivered to vulnerable New Yorkers for Passover
In time for the first Passover seder on April 8, UJA-Federation of New York is providing more than 8,500 free Passover seder meals and seder kits to more than 4,000 of the most vulnerable...
Preparing for my first Passover without family
“Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. If we refused, or rather used up, such paltry information as...
A parents’ guide to this year’s nuclear family seder
“Even if all of us were wise, all of us understanding, all of us knowing the Torah, we would still be obligated to discuss the exodus from Egypt; and everyone who discusses the exodus...
New Tu B’Shevat Haggadah emphasizes sustainable reforestation
Hazon, the Jewish Lab for Sustainability, has released its Tu B’Shevat Haggadah for 2020, along with holiday information, tips and resources for hosting a sustainable holiday seder.
The Haggadah encourages readers to think about trees...