Click here for many useful resources to enrich your Passover celebrations, including an exciting FROG-TELLER, our famous HAGGADAH HELPERS, plus articles below.

What is Pesach?

Pesach (Passover) is the most loved and celebrated Jewish holiday by families around the world.  It is one of the three pilgrimage festivals where in ancient Israel Jews journeyed to Jerusalem with sacrifices for the Temple.  Pesach is both an agricultural festival and a historical festival.  It is a celebration of spring through the rebirth, the first grain harvest and the birth of the first lambs of the season.  Historically it celebrates the Israelilte exodus from Egypt, from slavery to freedom.

Today Pesach is centered around family celebration and/or communal celebration of the Seder (literally order- ritual meal), which retells the Pesach story through prayer and study around a ritual meal.  The Haggadah (literally telling- prayer book for the Seder) is used to guide and frame the Seder. The Seder is also a time for sharing stories and family celebration.

As Pesach approaches it is customary to do a thorough spring cleaning, change to  special dishes for Pesach, and eat special foods to commemorate the Israelites quick exit from Egypt.  We eat Matza and food without leavening as well other special foods to mark the season, and separate if from the rest of the year.  Some Jews will only eat food that is kosher for Pesach throughout this festival.

The Shulamith Reich Elster Resource Center at the Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning has a variety of links, references and activities for you, your loved ones and community to participate in and to review as this special holiday approaches.

To learn more please visit us!

*new* The Frog-Teller-Guaranteed to help each generation (Dor) jump into a meaningful dialogue
Partnership Haggadah Helper - Cards for your Seder
*new* Curl Up and Read - Spring 2011
 *new* Healthy Passover Recipes
*new* What is Kitniot? 
*new* Passover Activities for the whole family
*new* Passover Activities for Young Children 
*new* Resources to Accompany "All Other Nights" by Dara Horn 
The Four Children: Art as Midrash
Extreme Make-Over: The Passover Seder Edition
Moses Activity for 4th and 5th Graders
Moses Activity Text
Passover Jeopardy for 3rd - 5th Graders
Ritual Jeopardy Bonus
Looking at the Seder Plate Activity
Nut Free Charoset Recipes
Passover as the Holiday of Spring: Judaism and Ecology Resources
 

*new* Passover Resources and Information
*new* Varied Passover resources for kids 
The Jewish Magazine
JAFI –Links to Pesach
My Jewish Learning – Passover
Agency for Jewish Learning List of Online Resources
Babaganewz Pesach Programs
Judaism 101 –Passover
Passover Overview
Interactive Seder Plate
How to Enhance Your Seder
New Songs to Add to Your Seder
Afikoman Treasure Hunt Program
Passover Kitchen Countdown
Torah.Org
Tool for Counting Omer
Four Children Count the Omer
Model for Omer Study
Children's Activities for the Seder

*The Partnership website showcases programs written for different environments to be used to teach or celebrate Pesach/Passover.  These programs were written by educators throughout the community, and are posted as examples that can be adapted into different learning environments. These programs were not written, edited or rated by the Partnership staff unless our names are listed as the authors.  They are being passed along as submitted by the author.