Released just in time for Pesach is “The No-Potato Passover” by Aviva Kanoff. Interesting, colorful, and most important, easy-to-follow, the book offers photographs to accompany every recipe, which are not too involved, have few ingredients, and are healthful.

Here are a few dishes sure to be a hit with families and friends.

“Why do we eat matzah on Passover?” asks Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, professor at Brandeis University, author of several books on Jewish liturgy, and scholar-in-residence at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly.

I sense that this is a trick question, and decline to answer.

He presses me.

“Why do we eat matzah?” he repeats.

I reluctantly answer.

A listing of synagogues hosting communal feasts

If you are in need of a seder to go to, the first place to turn is the rabbi of your local synagogue. He or she may be able to help.

There also are a number of synagogues hosting s’darim this year, with reservations on a first-come basis. What follows is a list of those s’darim of which we are aware.

There are fewer possibilities this year because of the difficulties created by the second seder night falling out at the end of Shabbat.