Celebrate Passover 2024 With Beth Am
Passover Begins on Monday Evening, April 22
Check out the information below on Beth Am Passover programming, a downloadable URJ seder supplement (with four questions focused on conversations about Israel), a JFCS mitzvah opportunity and Passover resources.
Each year, Passover calls us to remember the Exodus from Egypt as if we, personally, had journeyed from slavery to freedom. As we retell this story, we pray that one day all people who are still enslaved will be free. As the Haggadah teaches us, "In every generation, each of us must see ourselves as if we personally went out from Egypt." We celebrate Pesach not simply to repeat the tale of our enslavement and liberation, but to find new and personal meaning in that narrative each year. As Passover approaches, it’s time to think about how we’ll prepare for the arrival of the Feast of Freedom! As you cleanse your homes of chametz (products with leavening), please consider donating unopened packages to the hungry.
- Wise Sons Jewish Delicatessen Passover Food
Get ready for your Passover celebration with some good food from Wise Sons! Place your order by Friday, April 19, 9:00 AM. Then, come pick up your order in the Beth Am parking lot on Sunday, April 21 between 12:45-2:15 PM. - 2nd Night Community Seder
Tuesday, April 23, 6:00 PM, Social Hall (registration is now closed) - Beth Am Women Dessert Seder
Thursday, April 25, 6:00 PM, Social Hall | REGISTER - The Orchard Cocktail Seder Party
Thursday, April 25, 6:30 PM, Conference Room | REGISTER - BATY Chill Night—Passover Style
Friday, April 26, 7:30 PM, Social Hall & Patio | REGISTER - Tot Shabbat: Passover Pajama Party (Families With Children Ages 0-5) Friday, April 27, 9:30 AM, Playground and Rooms 5/6 | REGISTER
- Parent Wisdom Circle: “A Lesson from Passover — the Questions of the Four Children and Temperament”
Sunday, April 28, 9:30 AM, Social Hall Patio (weather permitting) - BAJY Snack Seder
Sunday, April 28, 12:30 PM, Social Hall & Patio | REGISTER - Passover Festival and Yizkor Service, With Beth Am Clergy
Monday, April 29, 9:30 AM, Beit Kehillah and Livestream
To request that a loved one's name be read at the service, use this form.
Passover Mitzvah Opportunity
Donate a Seder Sack to a neighbor in need through our partners at JFCS! With every gift of $36, you provide Passover foods and essentials to an isolated senior, an adult with disabilities, or a family in crisis. Give now at jfcs.org/sedersacks.
How Is This Passover Different From All Other Passovers?
Download a URJ Seder Supplement with four questions focused on conversations about Israel. The war in Gaza has created a rupture in our Jewish communities, and in some of our families. As we gather for Passover to share the story of our liberation, we pray for the safe return of those held hostage, and our hearts break for all those who suffer. We may worry that conversations around our tables this year will be fraught, or even impossible. But now, more than ever, it is critical to ask questions and to listen to one another. LEARN MORE
Other Passover Resources
- Download the URJ Passover Activities booklet for kids and adults
- The JCRC Bay Area Freedom Seder Haggadah brings the story of the Exodus into a modern, intersectional context and teaches how we overcome challenges most effectively when we are in accord with ourselves and in community with others.
- Check out this bilingual (Spanish-English) seder supplement that raises awareness of inequities within the Latin and Jewish communities.
- Searching for Chametz? Search for Opportunities to improve your climate footprint during your hunt using this handy chart.
- Include in your seder the URJ's The Four Children of Climate Change: A Passover Seder insert about the "four children of climate change".
- A Beth Am Meditation for Passover
- What to Expect at a Passover Seder
- Check out Beth Am member Caryn Huberman's children's book Baby Moses in a Basket (published by Candlewick Press, under her pen name Caryn Yacowitz)
- Beth Am Favorite Passover Recipes & Beth Am Women Favorite Passover Recipes
- Passover Cooking Session Recording with Beth Am Member, Chef Sharon Barkoff
- Forest Feast Nut-Free Charoset for Passover Recipe Video (Presented by Rabbi Jonathan Prosnit & Erin Gleeson)
- URJ Passover Resources
- American Jewish World Service has a plethora of Passover resources to enrich your Passover celebration
- 30-Minute Seder
- Check out HIAS' Passover resources including the HIAS Haggadah
- Pour Out Your Wrath, a Keshet Haggadah supplement inspired by conversations with BIPOC LGBTQ+ Jewish youth
- Check out Shalom Bayit's online seder resources, including a domestic violence Haggadah supplement, a Dayenu for ending violence against women, and an alternative reading for the four children
- Support Beth Am and shop for Passover at ModernTribe.com
Mon, May 6 2024
28 Nisan 5784
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