Passover

Passover Resources for Your Home

2025 Passover Guide

Pesach is the ultimate home holiday. It takes the most work, but it is also allows us the most wonderful collection of home traditions. Pesach begins the evening of Saturday, April 12. Click here to download our Passover Guide to help you prepare yourself and your home for Passover and walk you through the various rituals of home preparation.

When the first night of Pesach falls on a Saturday night, the usual preparations for the holiday require additional planning and adjustments to accommodate both Shabbat and Yom Tov observances. This unique timing affects everything from the search for chametz (bedikat chametz) and its disposal (biur chametz) to the cooking schedule, candle lighting, and Seder preparations.  To help you prepare, we have prepared a guide to walk you through it all!

Kashering Your Kitchen with Hadar

Kashering your kitchen for Pesach is easy with this step-by-step video guide from Rabbi Ethan Tucker of Hadar.

Haggadah Recommendations and Seder Questions

To help you host a seder, we've compiled a list of recommended Haggadot and questions you can ask at your seder to spark conversation. Click here to download the list.

Passover Recipes

Incorporate new recipes into your seder with recipes from Sisterhood and the USCJ.

Olam Tikvah Sisterhood Passover Recipes

USCJ Community Cookbook

Rabbi Joseph's Passover Menu from Wine Spectator
 

Setting Your Seder Table

Setting the table is a great job for kids, but they can do more than just putting out plates and forks! Click here to see Debra Ackerman's ideas that kids can use to create a table that invites conversation and adds to the experience of the seder.

Maggid Paper Bag Dramatics

Hand over the reins to your kids and charge them with staging the maggid (the story of the Exodus). The beauty of paper bag dramatics is that you fill a bag with props found around the house, so no need to hit the store (click here for a "shopping list" to get you started). Then it's time for the performance. We've got a great script you can use or your kids can write their own. Be sure to encourage them to cast actors of all ages, including those who can't read yet (they can act things out while someone else narrates). And this is another great activity for tables in multiple places-just be sure to share the plan with everyone ahead of time.

PJ Library Passover Resources for Young Families

Click here to view and download PJ Library's Passover materials, which include printables, discussion questions, videos and more.

Moti's Deliveries

We will have two deliveries to help you stock your pantry and feed your Seder guests. A grocery delivery and prepared food delivery on Tuesday, April 8.

Grocery Delivery
Order Deadline: Sunday, April 6, 12:00pm
Pickup: Tuesday, April 8, 4:00-4:30pm
More details here

Olam Tikvah and Moti's make it easy for you to get your Kosher-for-Passover groceries!

1. Order online at motismarket.com. Before placing your order, please ensure that you or a friend will be available to meet the truck for pickup on Tuesday, April 8 at 4:00pm.
2. Register as a new customer or log in as a returning customer.
3. Start shopping!
4. When prompted, select “pick up” at Olam Tikvah on Tuesday, April 8.
5. If you need help placing your order, please call Moti's at 301-468-0400

Prepared Food Delivery

Order Deadline: Monday, March 31, 6:00pm. See their Pesach menu here.
Pickup: Tuesday, April 8, 4:00-4:30pm. 

Your order will be available for pickup in the OT parking lot on Tuesday, April 8, from 4:00-4:30pm. Please pull into line behind the delivery truck, pop your trunk, and be prepared to tell us your name. We will put your order in your trunk.

Shop For Your Pesach Table

Passover Items at Jewish Treasures. The most wonderful time of the year is coming…..Passover. To help you get prepared Jewish Treasures has a variety of seder plates, matzah plates, Haggadot, bags of plagues, hostess gifts, Afikomen gifts and much more to grace your tables. Contact the office or Joanne Stryer to make an appointment. Chag Sameach!

Chametz Food Drive for ECHO

Tuesday, April 1 - Thursday, April 10

Clean out your chametz and donate it to the ECHO Food Pantry. Food donations can be dropped off between April 1-10 in the main lobby donation bench.

ECHO's most-needed chametz items are: spaghetti, crackers, pancake mix, cereal, ramen and tortillas.

See a list of ECHO's most-needed items here

The Chametz Food Drive is part of our Good Deeds Week projects.

Resources for Services

Audio Recordings