Passover

PASSOVER, OR PESACH IN HEBREW, is an eight-day spring holiday that celebrates the Israelites' exodus from Egypt.

The main ritual of Passover is the seder, a carefully choreographed meal held on the first two evenings of the holiday (in Israel, and for most Reform Jews, there's only one seder, on the first night). The seder is designed to provoke questions from children, and to provide an opportunity for telling the story of how the Israelites were redeemed from slavery and given the gift of the Torah.

Holiday descriptions provided by Kveller.com.

Passover Books 

Here is a list of Passover-related books sent out by The PJ Library either this year or in the past.

Review All the PJ Library Passover Books

Passover Activities

Below are some fun Passover activities the whole family can enjoy.

• "Passover with Kids"
  Suggestions for Haggadahs as well as songs, crafts, and activities from Kveller.com.
  
  
• "Bake Your Own Matzah"
  A do-it-yourself activity from Kveller.com.
  
  
• "Hunt for the Passover Frogs"
  Shalom Sesame invites your children to find the frogs along the Nile.
  
  
• "Passover Recipes"
  Passover recipes collected by the Jewish Daily Forward.
  
  
• "Engage Young Children at the Passover Seder"
  Great ideas from the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland.
  
  
• "Put on a Passover Play"
  Gan HaLev scripts Bricks, Bricks, Bricks!, a Passover play by Susan Tacherra.
  
  
• "Add an Interfaith Perspective to Your Seder" (PDF)
  InterfaithFamily.com offers tips for making the seder inclusive.

Parenting Blogs About Passover

• "Let the Pesach (Passover) Crafting Begin!"
  Creative Jewish Mom shows us how to create bejewled Passover wine glasses and more.
  
  
• "Passover Survival Tips for Vegans"
  Mayim Bialik shares tips on Raising Kvell.
  
  
• "Observance: Passover"
  Tablet Magazine's extensive Passover coverage offers up everything from quinoa to seder plate cocktails.
  
  
• "DIY Passover Plagues Box and Dramatic Re-Enaction"
  A kid-created seder activity that can make seders educational and fun.

(Trans) Denominational Passover Resources

Check out the Passover resources provided by these Jewish organizations and movements:

• Jewish Outreach Institute
  
• Society for Humanistic Judaism
  
• Union for Reform Judaism
  
• Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
  
• United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
  
• Orthodox Union
  
• Chabad