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The Modern Seder – Women’s Role

The Modern Seder – Women’s Role

by | Mar 2, 2021 | Passover

New Passover Traditions Arise As We Celebrate the Changing Role of Jewish Women: Beginning in the mid 1970’s when the first woman rabbi was ordained in the Reform movement, modern Jews have expanded the role that women play in Jewish culture, tradition and observance....
Last Supper? Passover Seder?

Last Supper? Passover Seder?

by | Mar 2, 2021 | Passover

Ancient Seder Traditions Was the Last Supper a Passover Seder? Originally, Passover night was a rather informal affair, There was no ornate Passover plate, no Haggadah, the book of prayers and blessings that we today at every Passover seder.  Instead in ancient times...
Passover Items for the Passover Seders

Passover Items for the Passover Seders

by | Mar 11, 2021 | Blog, Passover

ON YOUR TABLECandles, candlesticks, matches for Yom TovBox or plate of matzah (unleaved bread)Salt water and parsley or celery and vinegarGreen onion with stem – one for each personA traditional seder plate or dinner plateKiddush cup or wine glass with wine or...
The B’nei Anusim Seder Hamishi

The B’nei Anusim Seder Hamishi

by | Mar 2, 2021 | Passover

Some historians believe that the Russian painter, Moshe Maimon’s most famous work, “Marranos: Secret Seder,” actually tells the story of the Seder Hamishi, a secret passover tradition, a special Passover seder, held, not on the first or second night of Passover, but,...
Sephardic Passover Traditions

Sephardic Passover Traditions

by | Mar 2, 2021 | Jewish Food, Passover

Sephardic Traditions at the Passover Seder Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews – What’s the Difference? There is a division within the Jewish community that began thousands of years ago and continues to this day.  It is not a division between religious denominations such as...