The Web is Your Passover Oyster (metaphorically speaking)
Dear Jewschool readers,
Below are some links to help you spice up your seder and add meaning to your holiday. From parody songs to social action tips there’s something for everyone - and most of it is available for free on the web. Whether you are planning your own seder or attening one with family and friends, most people will welcome sharing a few words or offering to add either something creative during the seder or the meal.
Most links below are direct links to Passover-related material. All links come to you as suggestions of Jewschool and our readers. In no way are these links officially endorsed by Jewschool.com or Matzat. Further, this list is just a start - there are certainly many other places on the net to find out great things about Passover. If you’ve found any of these links helpful, or would like to suggest further links, please leave a comment to this post. A happy and kosher passover to everyone!!
With love,
-The wiggly squiggily shamir
Overall Passover site/”mega” site (with many outgoing links)
- Chabad
- JewishFreeware.org
- MyJewishLearning.com (pluralistic)
Full Haggadah Downloads (some have a small fee for ebook or pdf download)
- 30 Minutes Seder (via GoogleAds)
- Birthright Israel Haggadah
- Earth Based Haggadah
- Haggadah for Jews and Buddhists
- Jewish Labor Haggadah
- The Liberated Haggadah
- The Love and Justice Haggadah
- Modern Haggadah.com
- Open Source Haggadah
- Shalom Center’s New Freedom Seder and more
- Velveteen Rabbi’s Haggadah
Seder How-To
Haggadaah supplements and readings
- The Amphibian Haggaddah
- Four Cups and Four Winds
- New Israel Fund Passover Haggadah Supplements
- Tikkun Passover Supplement 2006
- Uncle Eli’s (Dr. Seuss style) Haggadah
Passover site with lyrics and/or mp3 to traditional and parody songs for seder
Explanations of modern Passover rituals
Divrei Torah about Passover, Sedarim, or Song of Songs
- An Aramean Destroyed My Father
- Beyond Teshuva’s 15 Steps of the Seder (click on ‘April 2006′ for newest material)
- The Exodus Effect
- Rabbi Shefa Gold onl Song of Songs
Passover humor, greeting cards, and animated cartoons
- Dating the Seder Way
- Dayenu Music Video
- Elijah the Prophet
- Matzoh Man
- Passover in 60 Seconds
- Who Let the Jews Out?
Afikoman prizes and other fun products
Games and activities for kids on Passover
Social action tips related to Passover
- American Anti-Slavery Group: Slavery is not history
- Confronting Poverty
- Jewlicious & the Task Force on Human Trafficking in Israel
- JFEJ’s Oppose the House Bill HR 4437 the “Border Protection, Anti-Terrorism and Illegal Immigration Control Act
- Passover for Vegans
- Religious Action Center
- Save Darfur Readings (AJWS)
Passover recipes
Guides for halakhot (laws) of Kosher L’Pesach
- Conservative guide
- Kehilat Hadar’s guide to Passover (including a list of kosher for Passover restaurants in NYC)
- List of products that are kosher for Pesach that DO NOT require supervision (at least according to the Shulchan Aruch, not according to the companies that profit off of the kashrut industry)
- Young Israel guide to Passover
Misc./no specific category
[...] Also, on Jewschool, Radical Torah’s contributing editor Sarah “Shamir” Chandler has compiled a list of online Passover resources, including some social action related materials. You can view the complete list here. [...]
—Radical Torah » Blog Archive » More Passover Resources for the Social Action Oriented · April 10th, 2006 at 4:49 am
Quite the list! Wow! Thanks for putting this together.
—Carly · April 10th, 2006 at 8:16 am
In your list of links above you have the one to Kashrut.org. in the link you specify that the products on the list do not require supervision to be Kosher for Passover, where is that information? I cannot find that on the Kashrut.org web site, they merely have a link to the list, so I am unclear if an -P is required.
—JKane · April 10th, 2006 at 10:14 am
JKane-
If you click on that link - http://www.kashrut.org/pesach/Pesach06.xls - it should automatically download an excel file. In that file you will see that there are many products that, according to this site, are K for P even though there is not a K for P symbol on their packaging.
Kashrut.org was created specifically so that people can learn the traditional rules for determining if a food is kosher to eat, even if it does not have an authorized heksher. Their logic is that if one knows the halakha (strict jewish law) of kashrut, there are many things that one can eat, even if they have not be prepared with strict rabbinic supervision.
For example, someone will email them and say “here is a list of ingredients of this food i want to buy. even though it doesn’t have a heksher, can i still eat it?” and the people who run the site will write back and either say “yes” or “no” or “no but…” etc. For example, someone asked if they could have “wishbone fat free italian dressing.” One would normally think that one could not have this on passover because A. it doesn’t have a Kosher for Passover symbol on it and B. it is made from vinegar which is often made from malted wheat. However, someone emailed the people at kashrut.org who checked all the ingredients including the vinegar and found out that the vinegar is gluten free distilled vinegar and thus okay to eat.
I find this site very liberating, especially as someone who knows a lot of people who are so strict on hekshers it’s a bit overboard. While they may have been invented to be more helpful to people, i think in the end they can be very constricting and limiting. See Yossi Abramowitz’s latest for more on this topic.
—shamirpower · April 10th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
Wow! This is a great source for links that are very informative and helpful. Great job!
—Passover Haggadah · February 17th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Hey, Thanks! I thought I had found it all but there were some resources here I’ve never seen before. Chag Sameyach!
—Liz Alpern · April 3rd, 2008 at 1:44 pm