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Cut fresh pomegranates and seeds on a table alongside apples and a honey jar.

Jewish Holidays Cheat Sheet

1297 About the Hebrew Calendar and the Holidays (Holy Days) Why are Jewish holidays always changing dates? Jewish...

Hanukkah, Holiday How To, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Holidays Toolbox, Passover, Purim, Religion, Rosh Hashanah, Simchat Torah, Tu Bishvat, Yom Kippur

18Doors Staff Share Their Favorite Haggadahs

With Passover just around the corner, we decided to check in with members of the 18Doors team to see which...

Passover, Seder

The 15 Steps of the Seder (with videos!)

Return to the Guide to Passover for Interfaith Families The fifteen steps of the Passover seder are listed below....

Food, Holiday Toolbox, Jewish Holidays, Passover, Passover Rituals, Seder

Virtual Passover Resources for Kids

Fun & creative ways to celebrate each day of Passover with your little ones. If you need some fun activities...

Parenting Passover, Passover

Seder Plate Substitutions During Coronavirus Quarantine

This year it may be more difficult than usual to find the traditional symbolic foods for the seder plate. Or...

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Virtual Passover Resources

Return to the Guide to Passover for Interfaith Families Coronavirus Passover Resources Click to jump to the...

Passover, Passover Rituals

How Will We Answer Their More-Than-Four Questions?

Passover used to be my favorite holiday. I suppose it still is although, now that I have an interfaith family,...

Parenting, Passover

Savory Potato Kugel with Preserved Lemon for Passover

*All photos by Nicole Morrison As evidenced in my challah breakfast strata recipe, I’m a savory person...

Passover, Passover Food, Recipes

Guide to Passover for Interfaith Families

The Guide to Passover for Interfaith Families is also available in a beautiful PDF version What is Passover/Pesach? For...

Holiday Toolbox, Passover, Passover Rituals

How to do a Seder Plate

Need more information about Passover? Check out our Guide to Passover for Interfaith Families. Much of the...

Holiday Toolbox, Jewish Holidays, Passover, Passover Food, Passover Rituals

What’s on the Menu for an Interfaith Passover?

My husband Zach has been doing up Passover big the past couple of years. Before we were married, I would quasi-host...

Denominations, Jewish Holidays, Other Holidays Rituals, Passover, Passover Food, Passover Rituals, Seder

Charoset Three Ways

Every year I think of something new to bring to the Passover table, literally. Now don’t get me wrong,...

Multicultural Food, Passover, Passover Food, Recipes, Vegetarian

Jewish Greetings Cheat Sheet

Ever hear someone use a Jewish greeting and aren’t sure what it means or how to respond? Happy and sad lifecycle...

Hanukkah, Holiday Toolbox, Jewish Holidays, Passover, Purim, Religion, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur

Ay Vey! A Kosher-for-Passover Easter … with Recipes

In my Catholic home in Puerto Rico, the smell of a roasting ham in the oven meant only one thing: Easter! Add...

Easter, Passover

Ten Tips to Enliven the Seder: Ways to Delay That Fifth Question

944 April, 2003 This article originally appeared on Jewishfamily.com, a service of Jewish Family &...

Jewish Holidays, Parenting Passover, Passover, Passover Rituals, Seder

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My Favorite Passover Song Parodies – 2017 Edition

Passover is coming, which means that Passover-themed parodies of pop songs are showing up on my Facebook news...

Holiday Video, Jewish Holidays, Passover, Pop Culture

Why Is There an Orange on the Seder Plate?

As a kid, my mother taught us to put an orange on the seder plate as an act of feminism. Around that same time,...

Jewish Holidays, Passover

Was the Last Supper a Passover Seder?

225 February, 2002 In the Spring, Jews throughout the world will sit down to experience a Passover seder...

Jesus, Jewish Holidays, Passover, Religion, Seder

Writing Our Own Haggadah

Pesach (Passover in English) is about freedom, myth-making, Jewish identity and cultural history—plus family...

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Change Afoot in the More “Conservative” Communities

This post originally appeared on www.edumundcase.com and is reprinted with permission It’s been quiet on the...

Jewish Holidays, Passover

My Turn to Make the Passover Meal (with Grandma’s Potatoes)

Passover is approaching. The stores in my neighborhood have begun the process of taking the chametz (bread)...

Parenting, Parenting Passover, Parenting Stories, Passover

Passover in Morocco, Iceland and Beyond

Growing up with a dad who was a Navy pilot, my family celebrated Jewish holidays in some pretty far-flung places...

Parenting Passover, Passover, Passover Rituals, Seder

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Our Nonexistent Springtime Dilemma

My daughter shows off her Easter egg hunt success Easter and Passover, in my experience, don’t create the same...

Easter, Parenting Passover, Parenting Stories, Passover

Cooking From Memory

My grandma Zelda taught me many things about Judaism and preparing for the Jewish holidays. However, what she...

Holiday Cooking, Passover

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