CBH -- Passover

A Reconstructionist Community in Summit, New Jersey

Passover

First Annual 2nd Night Seder at CBH - There is going to be a 2nd Night Passover Seder at CBH on Tuesday, March 30, which will be catered by Zayda’s of South Orange. Rabbi Amy will lead our Community Seder. The Seder will start at 5PM.

All CBH members, their families and their quests are welcome. Reservations are required!

The cost of the event is $40 per adult and $20 for children under 12.
Please send your reservation and checks to: Jill Zinckgraf, 39 Littleton Road, Morris Plains NJ 07950
Please make out your check to CBH.
Reservations will close on Monday, March 22.
You can contact Jill by email at jillzinckgraf@yahoo.com or Al Gottlieb at amgottleib@gamil.com for more information.

Passover Resource Suggestions

Creating Lively Passover Seders, by David Arnow, Jewish Lights Publishing (ISBN 1-58023-184-5), available at Jewish Lights or through other booksellers.

The Women's Seder Sourcebook, by Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, Tara Mohr & Catherine Spector, Jewish Lights Publishing (ISBN 1-58023-136-5), available at Jewish Lights or through other booksellers.

A Different Night: The Family Participation Haggadah, by Noam Zion and David Dishon, Shalom Hartman Institute (ISBN 0-9664740-3-1), available at Hartman Institute or through other booksellers.

The Open Door: A Passover Haggadah, edited by Sue Levi Elwell, Central Conference of American Rabbis (ISBN 0-88123-078-2), available at CCAR Press or through other booksellers.

A Night to Remember: The Haggadah of Contemporary Voices, by Mishael Zion and Noam Zion, Zion Holiday Publications (ISBN 0-9664740-6-6), available at All Judaica or through other booksellers.

A Night of Questions: A Passover Haggadah, by Rabbi Joy Levitt and Rabbi Michael Strassfeld, Reconstructionist Press (ISBN 0-935457-49-6), JRF.

Spice up your seder! A world tour of cultures and languages! A Rabbi Amy recommendation! -- "It's amazing - a 25-year labor of love that will make your seder fun, educational, entertaining."

"300 Ways to Ask The Four Questions" contains translations of the 4 Questions from hundreds of contributors worldwide. The book you never knew you needed, but will find irresistible. ANCIENT LANGUAGES (Egyptian from Exodus time, Akkadian, Old English); MODERN (Zulu, Judeo-Iraqi, Ladino, Mayan, Navajo, Xhosa, Mongolian); FUN PARODIES (Valley Girl, Lawyerese, Klingon, Semaphore). Hundreds of recordings too, games quizzes and chants. Foreword by Theodore Bikel. Makes a novel gift too.

Order from WhyIsThisNight.com.

Haikus

At our 2009 Passover Lunch, we wrote haikus on Passover themes. Haikus are Japanese-style three-line poems:
The first line has 5 beats
The second line has 7 beats
And the third line has 5 beats.

You can judge from the poems below how well we were all able to count after a delicious dairy lunch chaired by Pat Veit, Lila Bernstein and Sheila Kronisch of the Renaissance Havurah.

Let my people go!
Moses said, Let my people go!
Let my people go - already.
-- Arleen Soldati, Connie Seligman and Jackie Wetcher

Passover is here
Time to eat matzah already
Let's eat afikoman.
-- Donna Gottlieb

Matzah, oh my GOD!
So much each Pesach this year!
By Ben Schachter.
-- Ben Schachter

I like matzah. Yeah!
Matzah is very good. Yeah!
Matzah, matzah. Yeah!
-- Josh Gill

Here comes the fun part:
Time to ask the four questions.
Hebrew or English?
-- Debra Gill

I like matzah.
It is really delicious.
It is very good.
-- Wes Gill

Behold it is spring.
Flowers push through the soil.
Bring on the matzah!
-- Jim Schachter

Matzah is yummy.
Eat it during Passover.
It makes me happy.
-- Dan Stillman

The big kugel in the dish
Cooked by havurah
Disappeared amazingly.
-- Pat and Walter Veit, Shirley and Bob Max, Sheila and Myron Kronisch, Lila and Ron Bernstein

Matzah crumbles, oy.
Sweep my kitchen daily.
Lunch box crumbs fall out.
-- Pam Schachter

Time now for sandwich,
Charoses and bitter herbs.
Do you miss challah?
-- Debra Gill

Roasted egg, parsley,
Bitter herbs, shank bone, matzah
On the seder plate.
-- Irv Lustig

Matzah in flavors
Whole wheat, egg and chocolate.
Did Moses know this?
-- Anonymous