Passover Items for the Passover Seders

Passover Items for the Passover Seders

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...
Holocaust Memorial Day in Italy

Holocaust Memorial Day in Italy

Zachor!  Memories of my firstHolocaust Memorial Day in Italy   January 27, 1945 marks the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp where one million Jews were tortured, starved and murdered.. Sixty years later, in November 2005 the United Nations General Assembly...
Sephardic Passover Traditions

Sephardic Passover Traditions

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...
Celebrate Passover End With Mimouna

Celebrate Passover End With Mimouna

“Mimouna” Concluding Passover With A Sephardi Festival  Mimouna, (pronounced “mee-moh-oo-na” ) is the name given to the little known seder that celebrates the end of the eight days of the Passover festival  According to journalist Ophir Toubul (Cafe...
Virtual Tu B’Shevat Seder

Virtual Tu B’Shevat Seder

Join Rabbi Barbara for a VIRTUAL How-To Sephardi Tu B’Shevat SederWednesday, February 1, 20231:00 US EST / 7:00 noon Italy (1900 hours)ZOOM link: CLICK HERE We will make our model seder together using Rabbi Barbara’s Haggadah/Guide that is available for you: CLICK...
Tu B’Shevat

Tu B’Shevat

The Kabbalah and Tu B’Shevat – What  our mystics say about The Birthday of the Trees Back in the day when many of us went to Sunday School our teachers explained that the festival of Tu B’Shevat celebrates the birthday or the New Year for the trees. But did you...