Students from Boys Town Jerusalem take part in the annual massive volunteer effort to sort and pack more than 2,500 Passover food parcels for needy Israeli families. Spearheaded by the grassroots organization “Nitzav Rafael,” the campaign is headquartered at Boys Town.
Since its founding in 1948, BTJ has provided disadvantaged Israeli youth with academic, technological, and Torah education from junior high through college. Boys Town’s 18-acre campus hosts more than 800 students. (courtesy boys town)
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.
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.
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