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Passover Dear Readers,

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assover is in the air. The kinda light, kinda panic feeling arrives each year along

with the blossoms and warmer temps. The sense that something good, some-

thing unifying, uplifting, and yes, even that something happy is about to take place, comes with Passover—even, and maybe especially, for those who host Seders—those are the people who also experience the panic.

For weeks now, the new Haggadot that have been appearing (pages 18 and 26) in my mail—both traditional and digital—are additional clear signs that the holiday is approaching.

The Passover sections that are up in the markets, the new recipes being shared, and the plans to kasher homes are still more indications that yes, it’s almost time for the most observed of Jewish holidays.

In a new twist on the once very traditional Jewish festival, an array of ‘matzah clothing’ is now available. Bibs, dog bandanas, socks, dresses, and t-shirts can be found on sites such as Etsy and Amazon. One of my favorites is a reversible kippah… bagels on one side and matzah on the other. Who knew the holiday about the Exodus would inspire such merchandising opportunities? What would my grandfather think?

At United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, we really know it is time for Passover when someone from Chabad, this year, Rabbi Levi Brashevitsy, delivers a gift of a box of handmade Shmurah Matzah. The round, usually burnt matzah doesn’t taste like much, but it certainly adds a dimension of authenticity to the Seder. My family always loves it.

Every Passover Elijah has a standing invitation. No matter what. We open our door. Set a place at our table. And fill his cup. This year, let’s do the same for those in need. No matter what.

Please give to United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, you’ll be helping your Jewish community at home and around the world. And you’ll be opening up our Jewish future too.

No matter your approach to Passover, all of us at Jewish News hope that it is mostly on the light, peaceful side…and that any panic is over by the time you sit down for the first night’s Seder on Friday, April 19.

Chag Sameach,

Terri Denison Editor

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rowing up, my family used either a Haggadah from Maxwell House or one published by Barton’s Candy. It wasn’t until I was a young adult did I realize that other options even existed. In recent years, at the Jewish Museum in Paris and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, I’ve seen Haggadot dating to the 14th century and earlier…reminding me that yes, there were Haggadot before Maxwell House arrived on the scene.

Today, the options for selecting a Haggadah feel nearly endless, ranging from the most traditional and ornate to the silly. Plus, they are available at every possible price point.

Enter once again, Maxwell House, which is offering a ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Haggadah this year.

The coffee company’s pink l i m i t e d - e d i t io n version of its Haggadah features illustrations and other shtick based on the wildly successful Amazon show about an aspiring Jewish comedian and her family of Jewish relatives in late 1950s New York City.

The “Maisel” Haggadah is a throwback to the earlier edition of the Haggadah that the company has offered as a holiday giveaway since 1932.

Illustrations of Midge Maisel and other characters are scattered throughout, which also has handwritten notations by Rachel Brosnahan’s character, as well as faux wine stains.

The limited-run Haggadot are available to those who order Maxwell House coffee via, where else, but Amazon.com.

Also, via Amazon, Dave Cowen sent me his two latest Haggadahs. Last year’s

The Trump Passover Haggadah and this season’s Yada Yada Haggadah.

Depending on which side of the table you’re on, so to speak, The Trump Passover Haggadah is either hysterical or horrible. I can’t imagine wanting that much politics—funny or not—at my Passover table, but that’s personal preference, for sure. It does include some prayers and as The Forward noted, it is “some (what) SNL-worthy.”

Written as a parody of the Seinfeld television show, the Yada Yada Haggadah, is mainly ridiculous — though with enough of the blessings, it could be an option— especially for a Jerry, Elaine, Kramer, and George adoring crowd who don’t want to take the evening too seriously.

I guess when it comes to Haggadot, at least to date, there’s no dayenu!

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Passover The ultimate Passover dessert is made with Peeps Lisa Keys

(Kveller via JTA)—Yes, I’m Jewish. And I love it. But I also have some serious Easter candy envy.

I still remember one glorious Passover seder as a kid, when as a prize for finding

the afikomen, my grandfather gave my sister, my cousins and me a Cadbury Creme Egg. In my childhood mind, this was infinitely cooler than the silver dollars he usually gave us.

The years (um, make that decades…) ticked by. My love of candy continued

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unabated. Meanwhile, I grew up and started hosting Passover seders of my own. Scarfing down Easter candy and having a seder happened every spring, without fail. But they happened independently of one another.

Enter the amazing internet phenomenon of the Peeps Skillet S’mores, circa 2016. I somehow found it online, and my sister—once a member of a Peeps fan club—had the brilliant idea to serve it for the seder. Passover dessert has never been the same.

For the uninitiated, Peeps Skillet S’mores are pretty much exactly what they sound like: They are the sticky, sweet

least some of our dreams come true.

(Fun fact: Peeps are made by Just Born, the makers of one of my all-time favorites, Hot Tamales, a family-owned company in Pennsylvania with deep Jewish roots.)

Unlike complicated Passover desserts like flourless cakes, the Peeps S’mores Skillet couldn’t be easier to make: You basically heat some whipping cream and pour it in a skillet. Add chocolate and decorate with Peeps. Stick the whole pan in a hot oven and, within minutes, you’ve got yourself some toasty spring sweetness.

These Skillet S’mores are designed for dipping: You’re supposed to dip graham crackers into the skillet.

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goodness everyone loves about s’mores, but cooked and served in an indoorfriendly skillet. And instead of boring old marshmallows, the melty mess of chocolate is topped with those pretty, pastel-colored Peeps.

I’ll pause to acknowledge here that, yes, Peeps aren’t kosher for Passover. (In fact, they’re not kosher at all.) But for a not particularly observant family like mine— and one in which a majority of us have sweet teeth—serving the Peeps Skillet S’mores at our Passover seder has made at

But—c’mon, people!—it’s Passover.

Serving graham crackers at a seder would be insanely inappropriate. So instead we use matzah. The bland crunchiness of the bread of affliction is the perfect compliment to the super-sweet, sticky, literal “hot mess” that is the Peeps S’mores Skillet.

Try it—you’ll like it. Chag sameach and Happy Peepster!

Lisa Keys is the editor of Kveller.

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What it means to keep kosher for Passover MJL Staff

(My Jewish Learning via JTA)—Keeping kosher for Passover means abstaining from hametz, the fermented products of five principal grains: wheat, rye, spelt, barley, and oats. Though matzah, the unleavened bread eaten on Passover, is made from grain, it is produced under highly controlled conditions to ensure that it does not ferment.

Ashkenazi Jews who keep kosher for Passover have also traditionally avoided eating kitniyot, a category of foods that includes corn, rice, beans, and lentils, though the Conservative movement’s rabbinic authorities overturned the kitniyot prohibition in 2015.

Sephardic Jews do not abstain from kitniyot. A minority of Jews add an additional stringency by avoiding “gebrochts”—unleavened matzah products that become wet, such as matzah balls or matzah meal.

Among observant Jews, it is common practice to avoid most processed food that is not explicitly labeled kosher for Passover. This is true even for products like cheese or juice that do not contain any hametz, but may have been processed in a plant alongside products containing hametz. Some products that are kosher year-round are modified slightly to be kosher for Passover—most famously Coca-Cola, which substitutes cane sugar for corn syrup in some regions over the holiday and is marked by a distinctive yellow cap.

A guide to kosher-for-Passover foods is published each year by the Orthodox Union, which also maintains a searchable database of Passover foods on its website.

The O.U. also has information on food products that can be used without explicit Passover certification.

There are a range of additional practices common to Jews who keep kosher for Passover. Chief among them is ridding

the home of any hametz products. This is typically done in the days leading up to Passover when homes are cleaned of all hametz. For hametz products that are too valuable or difficult to discard, it is also possible to sell the hametz to a non-Jew. Generally, a rabbi performs this service on behalf of his congregants and then repurchases the hametz for them when the holiday concludes. In these cases, the seller rarely delivers the food to the pur-

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Passover Four hacks to make your Passover seder more fun Emily Aronoff Teck

(Kveller via JTA)—No joke: I love hosting the Passover seder.

I love feeding people—I’m both Jewish and Southern, so this is deeply engrained in me. I love educating people, and I love being Jewish, so the seder is a perfect opportunity to gather the ones I love for a meal—a meal during which they are actually open to me sharing all sorts of fun facts, songs, and stories.

If it were up to me, I’d fill every shared meal with readings and inspired discussions. That’s not realistic, of course. But during a Passover seder, at least, people are much more game. So, I like to take full advantage of the opportunity and go above and beyond the typical readings and tunes that most people expect.

Yes, I’m a mom—but my toddler and

baby weren’t my primary motivation for adding some sass to our seder. (Although one of my all-time favorite seder moments was last year, when our swaddled newborn, placed in a basket, formed a particularly memorable tablescape.) For years I’ve been motivated to find new and different ways to invite my seder guests to see the joy in Judaism that I see every day.

Everyone—kids and adults—loves to play, learn, and connect with one other.

Passover is the perfect time for that. So here are a few of my seder hacks that I’d totally recommend if you’d like to ensure your festive meal is, in fact, festive.

Make-your-own haroset bar Having your guests concoct their own haroset is so much fun. On a side table in our dining room, I set up an array of diced fruits, nuts, and a selection of hon-

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Digital Haggadah Like many families today, I like to make my own Haggadah, or seder guide. But instead of making photocopies, I do it in Powerpoint. We usually drag a big-screen TV into the dining room—though this year we’ve upgraded: We invested in a small projector, so instead we’ll project the Haggadah on a wall. (This is for those who are willing to use electronics on a yom tov.)

I love doing this for several reasons. I can person ali ze the presentation and I can make changes up to the last minute.

I’ll assign readings by writing a person’s name, add images of the people who are attending. I can even add photos from previous years’ seders, which is particularly fun since we have little kids who have grown a lot in the last year.

It’s a multimedia presentation: We play this video about The Four Sons instead of reading that passage; we’ll sing along with the Maccabeats’ version of Dayenu.

Plus, no one is ever on the wrong page, and everyone is looking up and around instead of down.

Storybook breaks Though we follow the Haggadah, we frequently pause to share parts of the story using picture books. It doesn’t seem to matter that there are usually more adults than kids at my seder, everyone welcomes the change of pace. We like to say the Four Questions all together, reading from this awesome picture book that’s both

in English and Hebrew, and we read The Longest Night to help us imagine the experiences of the enslaved people. We also have several copies of the Dayenu board book (thanks PJ Library!), so we have multiple people holding onto it as we sing it in English (just before we watch the video mentioned above).

Schtick it up I love schtick. But what I don’t love are some of the more popular ways to work it into the seder. (Take those Ten Plagues finger puppets—the plagues weren’t cute, so let’s drop those, OK?) There are myriad other ways for putting some pep into the seder. For example, we like to put the kids in laundry baskets—we give them a ride around the table when we talk about baby Moses in a basket—we do it while singing Little Taste of Torah.

W e ’ l l use bubble machines and water sprayers when we talk about the parting of the Red Sea, and for babies, we will play afikomen peek-a-boo using scarves or cloth napkins. We use materials like kinetic sand and wax craft sticks, so everyone can craft little avatars of themselves, encouraging each guest to “imagine if you were a slave in Egypt.”

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rust me, with a little creativity, and not a ton of work, you can have a lot of fun at your Passover seder. I hope your seder is meaningful, memorable and enjoyable. Chag Sameach!

Emily Aronoff Teck is a multi-tasking mom, musician, and educator. “Miss” Emily visits Jewish communities to share celebrations and songs with young children and their grownups, and manages JewishLearningMatters. com. She earned her doctorate in education in 2018 at Gratz College.

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There are 1426 names in the Bible.

Only 111 are women.

Passover

Honoring all the women who have made and are making our path, and our children’s paths, easier

Temple Israel’s Women’s Seder WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2019 6:30 pm | $18 Everyone welcome!

RSVP by Monday, April 8th templeisraelva@aol.com or 757-489-4550 7255 Granby Street Norfolk, VA 23505

Yom H ashoah with Holocaust survivor guest speaker

Dr. Roger Loria on

May 1 • 6:45 pm at

Temple Israel Honoring survivors, liberators, and Righteous Gentiles who live in Hampton Roads, as well as the memory of the victims. the holocaust

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Syzk Haggadah

How to choose a Passover Haggadah MJL staff

(My Jewish Learning via JTA)—With thousands of published Haggadahs available for purchase, choosing the one that is best for your seder can be overwhelming. For an overview of the many possibilities, we recommend How Is This Haggadah Different?

Here are some things you might want to consider when selecting a Haggadah:

Cost Remember, you’ll need a copy of the Haggadah for each guest (or every two guests, if people are comfortable sharing).

Unless you plan to buy one copy and then do some extensive photocopying (which, we should note, is illegal for copyrighted publications), you’ll have to multiply the book’s price by the number of guests.

There are also many free downloadable PDF versions online, and you can also choose to make your own.

Length If your guests are expecting the traditional seder, complete with Hebrew, they might be uncomfortable with an abridged Haggadah, an LGBTQ Haggadah, or one that emphasizes contemporary examples of oppression and slavery. On the other hand, if many are first-time seder-goers or lack the patience for a really long seder, something like The 30-Minute Seder or a book that relates the Exodus to modern social issues might be just the thing.

Children Since children generally don’t like sitting still at the table for long, we recommend an

abbreviated or child-oriented Haggadah.

There are many great children’s and “family” Haggadahs that engage adults as well as kids. Be sure to check out Kveller’s list for the best Hagaddahs for kids at kveller.com.

For the older kids, think about acting out skits from the seder.

Technology The first two days of Passover are yom tov, days when, as on Shabbat, traditional Jewish observance forbids activities like writing and using electronics. If this is not an issue for you, however, a number of Haggadahs are now available as e-books and apps, usually at lower prices than printed versions. (With the added advantage that you will not need to find a place to store them after the seder.) While many are just digital versions of printed Haggadahs, others incorporate multimedia features.

Beauty Haggadahs come in an array of designs and styles, with art ranging from contemporary to ancient. The downside of a gorgeous tome, however, is that there’s a good chance one of your guests will spill wine all over it. That can happen with any Haggadah, but you probably won’t mind so much if it’s inexpensive or more about function than aesthetic.

For a beautiful (and modern) Haggadah, check out the New American Haggadah and The Bronfman Haggadah.

The Syzk Haggadah, created in the 1930s, features illustrations in the style of illuminated manuscripts.