Celebrate Passover 2025 with Beth Am
Celebrate Passover 2025 With Beth Am
Passover Begins Saturday Evening, April 12
Check out the information below on Beth Am Passover programming, a downloadable URJ seder supplement (with four questions focused on conversations about Israel), a JFCS mitzvah opportunity, and other Passover resources.
Each year, Passover calls us to remember the Exodus from Egypt as if we, personally, had journeyed from slavery to freedom. As we retell this story, we pray that one day all people who are still enslaved will be free. As the Haggadah teaches us, "In every generation, each of us must see ourselves as if we personally went out from Egypt." We celebrate Pesach not simply to repeat the tale of our enslavement and liberation, but to find new and personal meaning in that narrative each year. As Passover approaches, it’s time to think about how we’ll prepare for the arrival of the Feast of Freedom! As you cleanse your homes of chametz (products with leavening), please consider donating unopened packages to the hungry.
- 2nd Night Congregational Seder, Led By Rabbi Art Nemitoff and Jeremy Ragent
Sunday, April 13, 6:00 PM, Social Hall | Registration is now closed. While registration is now closed, please call the Beth Am office by Friday, April 11 if you need a seder to attend and we will do our best to accommodate you. - Beth Am Women Dessert Seder, Led by Cantor Jaime Shpall, Rabbi Shoshana Nambi, Lisa Rauchwerger
Thursday, April 17, 6:00 PM, Social Hall | REGISTER by 4/13 - The Orchard Passover Shabbat Dinner
Friday, April 18, 7:30 PM, Conference Room | REGISTER - BATY Matzah Pizza Chill Night
Friday, April 18, 7:30 PM, BATY Room | REGISTER - Shabbat Morning Passover Festival and Yizkor Service, With Beth Am Clergy
Saturday, April 19, 10:30 AM, Sanctuary and Livestream; light brunch to follow in the Social Hall
To request that a loved one's name be read at the service, use this form.
Seder Sacks - A Passover Mitzvah Opportunity
Help our partners at Jewish Family and Children's Services (JFCS) provide lovingly packed Seder Sacks of traditional holiday foods and treats to home-bound seniors, adults with disabilities, or local families in crisis. No one should ever feel isolated and abandoned — and especially not on Passover. LEARN MORE
How Is This Passover Different From All Other Passovers?
Download a URJ Seder Supplement with four questions focused on conversations about Israel. The war in Gaza has created a rupture in our Jewish communities, and in some of our families. As we gather for Passover to share the story of our liberation, we pray for the safe return of those held hostage, and our hearts break for all those who suffer. We may worry that conversations around our tables this year will be fraught, or even impossible. But now, more than ever, it is critical to ask questions and to listen to one another. LEARN MORE
Other Passover Resources
- Download the URJ Passover Activities booklet for kids and adults
- The JCRC Bay Area Freedom Seder Haggadah brings the story of the Exodus into a modern, intersectional context and teaches how we overcome challenges most effectively when we are in accord with ourselves and in community with others.
- Check out this bilingual (Spanish-English) seder supplement that raises awareness of inequities within the Latin and Jewish communities.
- Searching for Chametz? Search for Opportunities to improve your climate footprint during your hunt using this handy chart.
- Include in your seder the URJ's The Four Children of Climate Change: A Passover Seder insert about the "four children of climate change".
- A Beth Am Meditation for Passover
- What to Expect at a Passover Seder
- Check out Beth Am member Caryn Huberman's children's book Baby Moses in a Basket (published by Candlewick Press, under her pen name Caryn Yacowitz)
- Beth Am Favorite Passover Recipes & Beth Am Women Favorite Passover Recipes
- Passover Cooking Session Recording with Beth Am Member, Chef Sharon Barkoff
- URJ Passover Resources
- American Jewish World Service has a plethora of Passover resources to enrich your Passover celebration
- 30-Minute Seder
- Check out HIAS' Passover resources including the HIAS Haggadah
- Pour Out Your Wrath, a Keshet Haggadah supplement inspired by conversations with BIPOC LGBTQ+ Jewish youth
- Check out Shalom Bayit's online seder resources, including a domestic violence Haggadah supplement, a Dayenu for ending violence against women, and an alternative reading for the four children
- Support Beth Am and shop for Passover at ModernTribe.com
Thu, April 24 2025
26 Nisan 5785
Upcoming Events

Israel Discussion Gatherings
Friday, Apr 25th 5:15p to 6:15pJoin with other Beth Am members every Friday before the Erev Shabbat service for time to reflect, discuss and listen to one another as we navigate this terribly challenging time for Israel and Jews around the world.

Erev Shabbat Service: Beth Am Welcomes Akselrad Scholar-in-Residence Rabbi Sanford Akselrad
Friday, Apr 25th 6:15p to 7:30pDuring the Erev Shabbat service, Rabbi Akselrad will present “Truths My Father Taught Me: The Life and Times of Rabbi Sidney Akselrad" (as told to Rabbi Sanford Akselrad). He will weave personal memories of his father together with the timeless issues that continue in Jewish life today.

Shabbat Dinner to Support Ukraine
Friday, Apr 25th 7:30p to 8:30pEnjoy a delicious community dinner prepared by the Poltava/Odesa Committee. All proceeds from the dinner will support our sister congregations in Ukraine.

8th and 9th Grade Santa Cruz Day Trip
Shabbat, Apr 26th 8:30a to 7:00pBeth Am's 8th & 9th graders are heading to Santa Cruz for the day - join the fun!

Torah Study, With Guest Teacher Rabbi Sanford Akselrad
Shabbat, Apr 26th 9:00a to 10:00aOn Shabbat morning, come learn with our 2025 Akselrad guest teacher, Rabbi Sanford Akselrad.
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