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Practical-ly Pesach Resources 2009/5769

Last updated April 16, 2009


First Seder, Wednesday evening, April 8, 2009




Multi-level Passover Guided Learning
(MyJewishLearning.com)




Shopping: Kosher Product Directories and Guides
Visit Kosher4Passover.com

The Ten Commandments for the Prudent Passover Consumer

Chicago Rabbinic Council (CRC) Passover Guides 2009

Detroit Council of Orthodox Rabbis Koshergram-Pesach 2009

K'hal Adath Jeshurun (KAJ) Pesach List 5769

Star-K Passover Directory 2009

Kof K Passover List 2009

KosherQuest.org website and 2009 Passover Guide (Eliezer Eidlitz)

OK Passover Products Guide 2009

OU Passover Guide 2009/5769

OU's Food and Non-Food Items that May be Used
Without Pesach Certification 2009

Rabbinical Council of New England Passover List 2009

Sephardic Recommended Passover Product List 2009 (JSOR)

Vaad Hoir of St. Louis 2009 Pesach Guide

Passover Kashrut Alerts and Updates (Kashrut.com)

Jewish Diabetes Association Pesach Guide-English

Jewish Diabetes Association Pesach Guide-Hebrew
(The above JDA guides are from 2004--the most recent ones available. For updated information on Passover and diabetes, the Jewish Diabetes Assoc. requires website registration.)

COR - Kashrut Council of Canada Passover Guide 2009

Montreal Kashrut 2009 Passover Guide (English and French editions)

London Beth Din 2009 Kosher for Pesach listings
and UK Sale of Chametz forms (deadline April 8, 2009, 11:56 a.m.)

Kosher Australia 2009 Pesach Guide
and Mechirat Chametz Forms

Union of Orthodox Synagogues of South Africa 2009
Pesach Kashrut Guide and Sale of Chametz forms



Observance: Issues and Advice

"But What Could be the Problem with...?" (Tzvi Rosen)

All About Kitniyot (Aish.com)

Jerusalem Institute Questions Post-Diaspora Kitniyot Abstinence (Arutz Sheva)

Why Legume Oils are Permitted (Ohr Somayach)

Masorti Responsa in Israel: Eating Kitniyot on Pesach (Shechter Institute of Jewish Studies)

Kitniyot Revealed (Richard J. Israel)

Is Marijuana Kosher for Pessah? (Jerusalem Post)

Medicines and Cosmetics on Pesach (Doniel Neustadt)

What Kosher Wine Is and Isn't

Quinoa - The Grain that isn't a Grain (Tzvi Rosen)

Pet Food for Passover (Aish.com)




Preparation


Commonly Asked Questions About Pesach Observance

Pesach at OU.org

Passover.net-Chabad-Lubavitch in Cyberspace

Rabbinical Assembly Pesach Guide




Pesach Cleaning Made Easy (Yitzchak Berkowitz)

Kashering for Pesach

Preparing a Kitchen for Pesach

Pesach Pointers

Sell Your Chametz Online (Chabad)
(deadline April 8, 2009, 9:00 a.m. EST)

The Busiest Day of the Year: Laws of Erev Pesach (Dovid Heber)

Women and the Fast of the Firstborn (JOFA)

Eruv Tavshilin (Tzvi Rosen)



Pesach Recipes

Pesach Recipe Substitutes (Eileen Goltz)

Haroset Recipes from Around the World (Claudia Roden)

Passover Festive Cooking (Phyllis Glazer)

Gourmet Passover Cookbook (Aish.com)

Vegetarian Pesach Recipes (RFCJ Archives)

Sephardic Style Vegetarian Pesach Recipes (Nava Atlas)

Vegetarian Fat Free Passover Recipes (Zahava Koren)




The Seder


The Traditional Egalitarian Passover Haggadah by Leona S. Green


Preparations for the Seder

Seder Table Checklist

Passover Jewish Freeware (Barry Dov Lerner)
A treasure trove of downloadable resources, traditional and creative seder ideas,
printable pages for creating your own haggadah, song books. and games for all ages

Sephardic Passover Customs and Traditions (Elimelech David Ha-Levi)

10 Ways to Enjoy the Seder (Yaakov Palatnik)


How to Conduct a Seder (Barry Dov Lerner)

Making a Memorable Seder (Ron Wolfson)

How Modern Scholarship Can Enhance the Seder (Joshua Kulp)

A Place at the Table:
An Orthodox Feminist Exploration of the Seder (JOFA)

"Important Women" and Leaning: A Socio-Halakhic Perspective
(Yehudit Engelberg Cohen)

Miriam's Cup: A New Ritual for the Passover Seder

Insights into the Haggadah (Aish.com)

Haggadah How-To's and downloadable Haggadot (Chabad.org)

Chassidic and Israeli Pesach Songs and Melodies (Arutz 7)
(Windows Media Player required)

Pesach Songs and Music (HebrewSongs.com)

Chava Alberstein's (year round) "Chad Gadya for our Time," accompanied by illustrated powerpoint or with translated and transliterated lyrics sung by Juliet Spitzer

Passover on the Net
(traditional seder melodies and downloadable haggadot, recipes, songs and stories)

Downloadable Valley Beth Shalom Haggadah

Downloadable Red Sea Haggadah (Laurance Wieder)

Downloadable All-Hebrew Haggadah (Zooloo)

Downloadable "Love and Justice in Times of War" Haggadah
(Micah Bazant and Dara Silverman)

Downloadable Pesach Seder Supplement: "Next Year May We Be Free" (RHR NA)

Downloadable Ecological Pesach Haggadah, (COEJL)

The Shpieling Downloadable Haggadah (Sanity Patrol)

Jewish Australia
(downloadable Australian family haggadot, printable seder song sheets, recipes, links to educational resources)



A Wicked Passover (Jewish Crossroads)

YU Pesach to Go (Yeshiva Univ.)

Divrei Torah on Pesach (Project Genesis)

Nisan (Jewish Heritage Online Magazine)

Alone or on your own? Find a Seder - 382 cities worldwide

Counting the Omer(Project Genesis)
What it is, how to do it, and optional registration for free daily e-mail reminders.

The Homer Calendar 2009 and Sefira Resources (jvibe)




Just for Fun

Moses is Departing Egypt: A Facebook Haggadah (Carl Elkin)

The Two Minute Haggadah: A Passover Service for the Impatient
(Michael Rubiner, Slate.com)

Manischewitzville (Music video by billraysheet)

Zen and the Art of Matza Breaking (You tube)

"Time to Find the Afikomin" Video (K4P)

Matzo Man (You tube)

Who Let the Jews Out? (You tube)

The Four Questions in Klingon

Uncle Eli's "Dr. Seuss" Haggadah Four Questions

Pesach Games for Kids, Songs, Movie clips, Humor, and more...(Kosher4Passover)

Family Activities--stories, songs, games, arts and crafts.(Aish HaTorah)


Send free Passover greeting cards! (Free Web)





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