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Tradition

From Brisket to Chocolate Mousse Puffs: Our Ultimate Collection of Passover Recipes

By JewishBoston

Tradition

How To Address the War in Israel at Your Passover Seder

By JewishBoston

Testament: The Story of Moses, Netflix, Karga Seven Pictures, Avi Azulay

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“Testament: The Story of Moses” Debuts on Netflix

By Kara Baskin

Events

Pre-Passover Pita Party Shabbat Dinner

Tomorrow, 6:30 pm

Temple Emanuel, Newton

Close-up of chickpea falafel in a gluten-free pita

$18

Yisod – 20s and 30s

Friday, April 19 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Temple Emanuel385 Ward StNewton, MA 02459

Requires registration $18.00

Passover Seder for Families With Young Children

Apr 20, 10:00 am

Temple Israel, Boston

Free

Temple Israel of Boston

Saturday, April 20 10:00am - 11:30am

Temple Israel477 Longwood AvenueBoston, MA 02215

Requires registration Free

Pre-Passover Celebration for Families With Young Children

Apr 21, 10:00 am

The Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture, Boston

$25

Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture

Sunday, April 21 10:00am - 11:30am

The Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture18 Phillips StBoston, MA 02114

Requires registration $25.00

Freedom Threads: Passover Service Project

Apr 21, 6:00 pm

Temple Shir Tikva, Wayland

Free

Repair the World Boston

Sunday, April 21 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Temple Shir Tikva141 Boston Post RdWayland, MA 01778

Requires registration Free

Community Passover Seder 2024

Apr 22, 7:30 pm

Chabad Center of Sudbury, Sudbury

$30

Chabad Center of Sudbury

Monday, April 22 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Chabad Center of Sudbury100 Horse Pond RdSudbury, MA 01776

Requires registration $30.00 - $50.00

Clergy Matzah Brei Cook-Off + Passover Festival Service

Apr 23, 9:30 am

Temple Israel, Boston

Free

Temple Israel of Boston

Tuesday, April 23 9:30am - 11:30am

Temple Israel477 Longwood AvenueBoston, MA 02215

Requires registration Free

Passover Seder in an Interfaith Setting

Apr 23, 6:00 pm

$18

Ma’yan Tikvah – A Wellspring of Hope

Tuesday, April 23 6:00pm - 7:30pm

See event description for location

Requires registration $18.00

Top Pick

Passover-Themed Drag Show

Apr 25, 6:30 pm

The Rockwell, Somerville

$25

Thursday, April 25 6:30pm - 9:30pm

The Rockwell255 Elm StSomerville, MA 02144

Requires registration $25.00

The Moth: Live Storytelling

Apr 25, 7:00 pm

The Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture, Boston

Young man on the stage is talking into a microphone, speech

$18

Top Pick

The Great Afikomen Hunt

Apr 26, 6:00 pm

The Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture, Boston

$25

Havurah on The Hill

Friday, April 26 6:00pm - 9:00pm

The Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture18 Phillips StBoston, MA 02114

Requires registration $25.00

Passover Community Seder & Dinner for Russian-Speaking Jewish Families

Apr 26, 7:00 pm

Jookender Community Initiatives, Inc. , Framingham

Passover background with matzah and white and purple gerberas. Jewish holiday. View from above. Passover (Passover) Seder Passover celebration concept

$25

Jookender Community Initiatives, Inc.

Friday, April 26 7:00pm - 9:30pm

Jookender Community Initiatives, Inc. 650 Worcester RdFramingham, MA 01702

Requires registration $25.00 - $50.00

Top Pick

Singing Our Way to Freedom: Song & Havdalah With Aly Halpert

Apr 27, 7:00 pm

Congregation Beth El, Sudbury

Free

Congregation Beth El of the Sudbury River Valley

Saturday, April 27 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Congregation Beth El105 Hudson RdSudbury, MA 01776

Requires registration $36.00

Food & Recipes

4/11/2024

Your Passover Seder, Delivered With Feast & Fettle

This Passover, you don’t have to do it all. Get your feast delivered to your door—and enjoy a bountiful seder with less of the cooking.

By Feast & Fettle

3/23/2023 Top Pick

Where To Get Passover Meals in Boston

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

4/8/2022 Top Pick

Boston’s Top Spots for Delicious Passover Food

By Stephanie CarterFor Eater Boston

4/5/2022 Top Pick

Get Passover Bonbons From This Talented Needham Mom

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

Haggadah & Seder Supplements

4/11/2024 Top Pick

Passover 2024: Simple Prayer for the Hostages

Consider adopting a hostage for your seder. Set a place at your table. Say their name and tell their story.

By David GoodtreeFor Medium

4/11/2024 Top Pick

Prayers, Poems, Songs, and Meditations in Response to October 7

As we gather around our Passover tables—both personal and communal—our hearts are with our fellow Jews who are desperate for freedom.

By Rabbi Annie Villarreal-BelfordFor CCAR Press

4/11/2024 Top Pick

A New Guide for Families: 7 Ways To Address October 7

We know things feel different this year, and we’re here to help guide your family through it.

By Kveller

4/11/2024 Top Pick

How To Address the War in Israel at Your Passover Seder

Wondering how to incorporate current events into your seder? Find resources and Haggadah supplements focused specifically on the aftermath of Oct. 7.

By JewishBoston

4/11/2024 Top Pick

A Special Reading for a Jewish World in Crisis

By JDC

4/11/2024 Top Pick

Haggadah With Adaptations in the Spirit of These Times

When 133 of our brothers and sisters are still not free, we will gather around the holiday table with a special Haggadah dedicated to those dear to us.

By Be’eri Print at Kibbutz Be’eriFor Hostages and Missing Families Forum

4/11/2024 Top Pick

In Every Generation: A Haggadah Supplement for 5784

By Shalom Hartman Institute

4/11/2024 Top Pick

This Broken Matzah: Pesach 2024

We hope these prayers, poems and works of art will help you make this Passover what you need it to be.

By Bayit: Building Jewish

Traditions & Rituals

3/23/2023 Top Pick

Passover Activities for Kids of Every Age

Easy ways to keep your younger guests entertained.

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

10/19/2022 Top Pick

Taanit Behab: Not So Fast

Can a scarcely-known Jewish fasting tradition go viral? In this day and age, anything can happen—just ask the Miami Boys Choir.

By Dan Brosgol

A modern Jewish American family celebrates Passover together. The youngest person at the seder, a little boy, is asking the Four Questions (Mah Nishtanah). These questions provide the impetus for telling why this night is different from all other nights.

4/11/2022 Top Pick

Making Memories With Your Teenage Grandchild This Passover

A few ways to engage teens in the preparations and rituals of the seder.

By Margie Freedberg Bogdonow & Rabbi Dena ShafferFor Jewish Grandparents Network

3/19/2021 Top Pick

Passover Backgrounds for Your Zoom Seder

By JewishBoston

3/19/2021 Top Pick

Passover@Home: Virtually Everything You Need to Celebrate

By CJP and JewishBoston.com

Crafts & DIY

2/24/2022

My Passover Seder: Coloring & Activity Book

Children will learn about the Passover holiday in this fun-filled introduction to a seder.

By Emily Sper

3/16/2021 Top Pick

Craft Project: “Cleaned for Passover” Door Hanger

By Schechter Boston

4/16/2019 Top Pick

Passover Table Settings

A look at elegant, chic and fun seder table settings.

By CJP Women’s Philanthropy

3/27/2018 Top Pick

Passover Gnome Garden

By Breaking Matzo

4/5/2017 Top Pick

Seder Bingo: Play Your Way to Freedom

By JewishBoston

3/24/2017 Top Pick

Make Your Own Matzoh House

By Epicurious

3/24/2017 Top Pick

Edible 10 Plagues

Make the 10 plagues into edible sweets or snacks!

By Joy of Kosher

3/30/2015 Top Pick

Passover Craft for Kids: Matzah Box Hack

This matzah box hack lets your kids add some color to your seder table.

By Tova SpeterFor JewishBoston

Arts & Culture

4/10/2024 Top Pick

Books For Matzah Lovers

Check out these lively picture books, all starring matzah!

By PJ Library

4/2/2024 Top Pick

“Testament: The Story of Moses” Debuts on Netflix

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

4/12/2022 Top Pick

Draw Your Way Through the Seder With This New Haggadah

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

4/4/2022 Top Pick

Passover Poems for National Poetry Month

Enjoy these Passover-themed poems for National Poetry Month from award-winning poets Sarah Mathes and Erika Meitner.

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

Julie Weitz in “Golem: A Call to Action” at Angeles National Forest (Tongva/Kizh), inkjet archival print, 2020 (Photo: Aaron Farley)

3/24/2021 Top Pick

In Beacon Hill, the Golem Rises as ‘a Protector of All People’ for Passover

“Golem v. Golem” is the centerpiece of Passover programming presented by the Jewish Arts Collaborative and Asylum Arts.

By The Boston Globe

Voices From Our Community

Magen David, Star of David, Passover, Pesach, Matzo, Matzah

4/15/2024 Top Pick

Four More Questions: 2024 Edition

Pesach is here, so it’s time for my annual grab-bag of four more questions about what might happen between this Passover and the next. Sally forth, tally ho.

By Dan Brosgol

4/4/2023 Top Pick

Happy Passover From Rabbi Marc Baker

Join me in telling our story of resistance #StandUpToJewishHate.

By Rabbi Marc BakerFor JewishBoston

4/3/2023

A Passover of Resilience and Memories

A tough year brings in new traditions.

By Susie Davidson

3/31/2023 Top Pick

The Lawyers’ Haggadah (Annotated by the Author)

To my many Jewish lawyer friends, here’s a new Haggadah to guide you through, or at least help you endure, your next seder. Chag sameach!

By Howard Zaharoff

Passover (Pesach) table setting with Jewish sedar plate.

3/17/2023 Top Pick

Four More Questions: 2023 Edition

What do Israel’s judicial reforms, the invasion of Ukraine, the Abraham Accords and Noa Kirel all have in common? They’re all in my 2023 edition of “Four More Questions.”

By Dan Brosgol

4/25/2022

Counting and Connecting With the Omer in Recovery

Jews in recovery from mental or physical illness count the days of the Omer to enrich and sustain their recovery through daily writing prompts on Instagram.

By Melissa Lovitz

4/13/2022 Top Pick

The Passover Story Is an American Story

Exodus is first and foremost a Jewish narrative, but it has long echoed through U.S. history too.

By Jeff JacobyFor The Boston Globe

4/12/2022 Top Pick

JBBBS Hosts an Inclusive Passover Seder

After a long stretch of isolation, it felt good to reunite.

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

4/11/2022

A Poem for Passover

This poem is about preparing for the seder.

By Deborah Leipziger

4/8/2022 Top Pick

Four (More) Questions at Passover: 2022 Edition

Every Passover, our kids ask the same four questions. Luckily, I’ve got four more questions that will make you think about the Jewish world.

By Dan Brosgol

4/7/2022 Top Pick

The Iconic Maxwell House Haggadah Turns 90

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

Community News

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4/18/2022 Top Pick

Ukrainian Jews Displaced by War Find Passover Poignant

Jewish refugees are celebrating a holiday about fleeing an abusive military leader while being refugees themselves.

By Deena PrichepFor NPR News

4/18/2022 Top Pick

‘We Pray for You’: Ukrainian Jews Mark Passover, If They Can

The final hours before Passover found the chief rabbi for Kyiv and Ukraine in a cemetery.

By Cara Anna & Oleksandr StashevskyiFor Boston 25 News

4/18/2022 Top Pick

A Day for Prayer and Reflection

Jews celebrate the beginning of Passover, as Christians mark Good Friday.

By Rose PecciFor The Boston Globe

4/12/2022 Top Pick

For Jews Fleeing Ukraine, Passover Takes on New Meaning

Chabad, the JDC, Jewish Federations of North America and others are helping Ukrainian Jews celebrate Passover wherever they have sought refuge.

By Deepa BharathFor The Boston Globe

4/8/2022

Journeys to Freedom: A Women’s Seder

Congregation B’nai Torah of Sudbury’s sixth annual Women’s Seder explored the relationship between two journeys to freedom.

By B’nai Torah MetroWest

4/8/2022 Top Pick

Liberation Seder Marks Gubernatorial Clemency of William Allen

JALSA hosted its first “Liberation Seder: Breaking the Bonds of Incarceration” in recognition of William Allen’s fight for freedom.

By Susie DavidsonFor Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action

4/8/2021 Top Pick

Newton’s Jewish Community Celebrates With Resilience, Hope

Newton’s Jewish community observed its second COVID-19 era Passover with a renewed sense of hope.

By The Boston Globe

4/5/2021 Top Pick

As Pandemic Fears Subside, Congregations Reflect on Hope

Signs of the coronavirus lingered over weekend rituals.

By The Boston Globe

Doug Emhoff and Vice President Kamala Harris (Promotional still: The White House)

3/30/2021 Top Pick

Biden, Harris, Doug Emhoff Speak at White House Passover Celebration

The virtual event was hosted by second gentleman Douglas Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a U.S. president or vice president.

By Marie-Rose SheinermanFor The Forward

3/30/2021 Top Pick

Local Rabbis Reflect on Passover a Year Into the Pandemic

Passover is a time of reflection and hope, and with the pandemic’s end finally in sight, its teachings are taking on new meaning for the Jewish community.

By The Boston Globe

3/30/2021 Top Pick

Pandemic Passover, Year Two: More In-Person Seders

More Jewish families will be gathering in-person for Passover seders this weekend as many older people have received the coronavirus vaccine ahead of the holiday.

By Boston Herald

3/26/2021 Top Pick

Passover to Begin With a Sense of Hope

For the second year in a row, members of the Jewish faith will observe one of their most important holidays during a pandemic.

By WGBH

Passover

Passover 2024 begins at sundown on Monday, April 22, and ends on Tuesday, April 30. Find seders, holiday recipes, a free Haggadah, activities for kids and more.