Passover Resources
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Need A Passover Nosh?
Delicious Catering is offering Seder dinners (brisket, chicken, or vegetarian), with a pick-up option in front of Congregation Emanu-El. To place your order, contact [email protected] or 415.453.3710. To place your order online, click here for menu and ordering details.
McCall’s Catering is offering a Passover meal delivery, with vegetarian options available. The Seder Plate is $35 and the Seder Meal is $65. Orders must be placed by 5:00 pm Thursday, March 25 for first night Seder delivery. Other meal delivery options are available between March 29-April 2. Click here for the menu and ordering details.
Betty Zlatchin Catering is pleased to bring back their Seder meal order and delivery program. Please place your order by 5pm on Wednesday, March 24 for delivery on Saturday, March 27. Prix-Fixe Menus: $130 (serves 2) + $15 SF Delivery (Outside SF is additional and billed separately). All menus include reheat and finishing instructions. To view the Passover menu, please click here. To order, click here.
Wise Sons Deli: In addition to offering their Passover catering menu for local pickup and delivery, and through their community pop-ups, Wise Sons is also offering a convenient Passover Package available for nationwide shipping. Click on link above.
Dina Kosher Catering is offering Passover meat kits available for the entire week of Passover, from 1st, 2nd or 7th night. Click on the link above for the menu. The ordering deadline is Tuesday, March 23, 2021 by 8PM. Limited supplies are available.
Congregation Emanu-El’s 2021 Passover Recipe Book
What’s cooking in our congregation? We have compiled an e-recipe book with staff and Member favorites, to get you excited for all the culinary possibilities of Passover. Chag sameach and bitei-avon!
Lift Up Seniors & Families In Need This Passover
Show isolated seniors, people with disabilities, and families in crisis that they are not alone! With every gift of $36, you will provide a Seder Sack filled with Passover foods and essentials to a household in need. Due to the pandemic crisis, the need is great—especially among our frail elderly. Please consider giving a Chai Five for $180 to send five full Seder Sacks. Make your gift in honor or in memory of someone dear to you, and we’ll send a Passover greeting or memorial card on your behalf.
Please donate today:
Click here to donate through JFCS.org
Call: 415-449-1264
Mail: Attn: Seder Sacks, JFCS
PO Box 159004,
San Francisco, CA 94115
Zoom Seder Tips 2021: Next Year in Person, This Year Still on Zoom!
Once again, we will be on Zoom for the Seders. And while you have mastered Zoom, here are some tips to make your Seder even more meaningful:
- Choose a virtual Haggadah — there are many resources out there, including free flipbooks. One we love is The Velveteen Rabbi’s Haggadah for Pesach, a non-denominational Haggadah with a lot of readings in English, transliterations for Hebrew text, and good jumping-off points for discussion.
- Create a Passover pick-up basket with hats, plastic frogs, or a treat so everyone can share a fun moment in common.
- Ask people to prepare a part. Spotlight them as they chant the 4 Questions, or present on how we were strangers and engage in a discussion on how we treat the “stranger” today.
- Take a zoom poll — Which of the 4 Children are you this year? In reciting the plagues, ask each person to share what it meant for them to be in darkness in their homes this year. What will bring light in the year to come?
- Unmute everyone for Dayenu and let zoom be zoom!
- Play hide the Afikomen somewhere in the world and let people take guesses.
Don’t worry about glitches; be patient — Enjoy this night of joy!
Get Prepped for Passover with Rabbi Ryan Bauer
Learn the basics of the Passover seder, then dive a little deeper into the meaning behind the holiday rituals. Led by Rabbi Ryan Bauer. (From March 11, 2021)
Moses and Passover
In this video for Young Families, Rabbi Sarah Parris and musician Jonathan Bayer explore the story of Moses through song.
Activities for the whole family
Omanut With Ava: Chametz Hand Brooms
Take a Quiz: Is This Kosher for Passover?
Children’s Activities for Passover
Eight Fun Passover Activities for the Entire Family
A Chocolate Seder for Children
Choose a Haggadah for Your Seder
A Passover Haggadah
JewBelong’s Haggadah
Truah’s Haggadah (social justice-focused)
Friendseder (aimed at Young Adults)
A Children’s Haggadah
Sharing the Journey: A Haggadah for Contemporary Families
The Open Door: A Passover Haggadah
Earth Justice Seder
Racial Justice Haggadah Insert
HIAS Haggadah
The (unofficial) Hogwarts Haggadah
