Pesach is a time for us to retell the story of our redemption and liberation from Egypt, contemplate what we would need to be truly liberated today and take seriously the plight of others in our midst and far away who cannot call themselves free people.
Members & non-members alike are welcome to join us for any of our programs and services. Please see below for the links, resources, and calendar information you need to prepare for and celebrate.
Pre-Passover
All Who Are Hungry Campaign
Every seder we say, “all who are hungry, let them come and eat!” Let’s put our money where our mouths (and haggadot) are by:
- Feeding our local hungry through AFAC
- Feeding Israelis evacuated from the North and the Gaza Envelope through the Masorti/Conservative’s Emergency War Fund
- Feeding the starving in Gaza with New Israel Fund
Pre-Passover Tasting and Lasagna Bake
Sunday, April 14th
Pre-Passover Tasting 11:45 AM-12:30 PM
If you can’t join us for this event, please consider bringing a ready-to-be-donated meatless lasagna made at home or purchased. Drop-off in the kitchen freezer during regular office or religious school hours April 7th-14th.
Special Beit Midrash: Pesach Ask the Rabbi w/ Rav Amelia
Wednesday, April 17th, 7 – 9 PM
Do you have any questions about Pesach, the Seders, or the Haggadah that you’ve been itching to get answered? Include your questions in the registration form and you might just see your questions featured in our Pesach ask-and-answer Beit Midrash.
Families with Young Children Shabbat with a Passover Twist
Friday, April 19th, 5:15 – 6:00 PM
This Shabbat service is for 0-6 year olds, their parents and siblings and includes prayers, songs, a story and more.
This event is sponsored by the David Schwartz Fund and through a grant from The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington.
Sell Your Chametz
Click here to sign our form authorizing the sale of your chametz.
Pesach Resources
- Click here for a Pesach Guide
- Click here for the Rabbinical Assembly Guide
- Click here for videos teaching how to kasher your kitchen
- Click here to read the Teshuva that allows Ashkenazim to eat kitniyot by Rabbi David Golinkin
- Click here to read “Seder Interrupted: A Post October 7 Haggadah Supplement”
Omer Learning Project
Please participate in this year’s Omer Learning project and submit suggestions here by April 12th.
We are looking to collect our community members sources of hope and how they feel G-d’s presence in the world. We’ll then share these via e-mail throughout the Counting of the Omer (from the 2nd day of Passover to Shavuot, 49 days in all).
Passover
Ta’anit Bechorot Siyum – Fast of the First-Born
Monday, April 22nd, 7:30 – 9 AM
Are you a first-born hoping not to fast on the Fast of the Firstborn? Join us for a short morning service followed by a siyyum (brief learning session and meal on the occasion of finishing the study of a text).
Yes, attendance at the siyum means you don’t have to fast! Youngest and middle chidlren are welcome as well.
Pesach Services – 10 AM
(Click here for virtual connection information.)
Tuesday, April 23rd
Wednesday, April 24th
Monday, April 29th
Tuesday, April 30th (with Yizkor)
Passover Senior Schmooze
Friday, April 26th, 12:30 – 2 PM
Join your “senior” CEH friends for lunch provided by CEH and a schmooze.
All-Ages Pesach Program
Sunday, April 28th, 10 – 11:30 AM
Join your CEH friends to celebrate the sixth day of Pesach with nosh and conversations. After snacks, Rav Amelia will lead a learning session for teens and adults while Morah Miriam will run Passover activities for the kids.