Passover 2025

Passover begins on Saturday night, April 12. Please read on for information about Pesach at Temple Beth-El, your homes, and beyond.

Sale of Chametz through Temple Beth-El

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First and Second Seder

If you have space at your seder table this year, or if you're looking for a seder to attend, Rabbi Michael will try to make matches between hosts and guests - please be in touch with Rabbi Michael to let him know number of people, location, date, and any other helpful details - the sooner the better.

Seventh Night Seder at Temple Beth-El

6:15 on Friday night, April 18, 2025. Register at this link! Deadline is Tuesday, April 15 at 3 PM.

Passover Service Schedule at Temple Beth-El

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General Passover Resources

Exploring Judaism.org is a new website from the Conservative movement with a wealth of accessible information. Their Passover landing page is here.

MyJewishLearning's Passover resources are rich, with something for everyone.

The Hartman Institute has articles, videos, and podcasts on Passover, including a new supplement for this year.

Guidance on Passover Cleaning and Kashrut

Passover Guide from Rabbinical Assembly for 5785 (pdf).  This is a mainstream guide to Passover practice that sticks to what is actually required under Jewish law, rather than stringent customs that make holiday preparation unnecessarily challenging.

Questions and answers about keeping kosher on Passover from the Conservative movement

Pesah and Continued Kashrut Slavery: A Conceptual Reflection by Rabbi Aaron Alexander contains further detail about the thinking going into some of the Passover Guide's approach.

Sephardic Pesah Guide 2025 (pdf) - particularly useful for those who eat kitniyot (beans/rice/legumes) on Passover.

Recipes

The Nosher's collection of Passover recipes.

Vegetarian and vegan Passover recipes from MayIHaveThatRecipe.com

Haggadot and Seder Materials

Returning Favorites:

Haggadahs-R-Us is a good source of a variety of haggadot.

Recustom.com (formally Haggadot.com) lets you compile your own custom haggadah.

Velveteen Rabbi's Haggadah for Pesach by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat

HIAS Haggadah with material on Passover and refugees

T'ruah's Human Rights Haggadah can be used as a seder companion or source of readings as well.

The Israeli liberal Orthodox group Tzohar has released a guide for celebrating Pesach and the seder with loved ones with dementia. (Note that if you scroll down below the document preview, there is a Download button to obtain the entire PDF.) While some of its concerns are specific to Orthodox and strictly-observant Conservative practice, there are also compassionate and helpful suggestions that are broadly applicable.

Poems around the Seder Table: Rachel Korazim curated this collection of poetry from many sources for the seder - attributions are within.

National Council of Jewish Women has published The Five Women of the Exodus: A Feminist Supplement to the Haggadah

The JDC has a global Passover toolkit here.


New for 2025 (more to come…)

What do we do differently at a Saturday night seder?

2025 introduction to the seder from HIAS


Supplements from Passover 2024:

Not A Haggadah Passover reader from Exploring Judaism

The Long Redemption: A Reader From Israel For Pesah 5784 (from Mechon Hadar)

Al Pedut Nafsheinu - Internal Redemption: Pesah Reader 5784 (also from Mechon Hadar)

The following is drawn from a list of 2024 Passover haggadah supplements compiled by the JTA and posted on the Forward's website - the full article is here.