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What are the requirements for karpas? It needs to be fruit of the earth, not of the tree or vine.Where does it come from? From the Greek word karpos, meaning fresh raw vegetable. Karpas also comes from similar words for the color green in a number of different ancient languages. For example, karpas was the denotation for the color green in Farsi, and was the name for the color green according to Rashi (old French). Karpos was one of the original...

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By Rabbi Alana Suskin During the Passover season, we revisit the story of how the people of Israel, in a reversal of humans searching for the Divine, are pursued and rescued by God. During the process, what has been a family and a tribal story becomes a national story. It is in our leaving Egypt that Israel becomes the Jewish people. One of the key points to our national identity though, happens before we leave Egypt. In the very first chapter...

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Below the Four Questions with a translation into Ladino (Medieval Spanish) Abajo las <<Cuatro Preguntas>> traducidas en Ladino (el judio-espaÃnol medieval) “Kuanto fue demudada la noshada a esta mas ke todas las noshadas? Ke en todas las noshadas non mos entinyentes afilu vez una  la noshada la esta dos vezes. Ke en todas las noshadas mos komientes levdo o sesenya i la noshada la esta todo el sesenya. Ke en todas las nohadas mos komientes resto de vedruras i la noshada...

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By Sarah Spencer Passover is a time for people to gather around tables, share stories food and rituals. It can be joyous and exciting. But like with any communal setting, is can also be complicated to navigate the different needs and agendas people bring to the table. Still, if we follow Jewish tradition, we will find Passover can be a model for how to create positive diverse communal connections. Its rituals and structures teach us to talk across differences and celebrate...

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What happened to the tortoise? The tortoise, the tortoise A breadfruit fell on the tortoise The tortoise, the tortoise What happened to the breadfruit? The tortoise, the tortoise A stake pierced the breadfruit The tortoise, the tortoise What happened to the staff? The tortoise, the tortoise Termite ate up the staff The tortoise, the tortoise What happened to the termite? The tortoise, the tortoise A fowl ate the termite The tortoise, the tortoise What happened to the fowl? The tortoise, the...

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Un Cavritico Un cavritico, que lo merco mi padre por dos levanim, por dos levanim. Y vino el gato y se comio el cavritico, que lo merco mi padre por dos levanim, por dos levanim. Y vino el perro y que mordio el gato, que se comio el cavritico, que lo merco mi padre por dos levanim, por dos levanim. Y vino el palo y aharvo el perro, que mordio el gato, que se comio el cavritico, que lo merco mi...

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In Libya, before Passover, women would grind flour for matzah for 7 days while the men took chalk from the mountains to make whitewash. Then, they would paint their houses inside and out. Until the Seder, everyone slept outside.

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"Passover" By Yehuda Amichai My father was a god and did not know it. He gave me The Ten Commandments neither in thunder nor in furry; neither in fire nor in cloud But rather in gentleness and love. And he added caresses and kind words and he added “I beg You,” and “please.” And he sang “keep” and “remember” the Shabbat In a single melody and he pleaded and cried quietly between one utterance and the next , “Do not take...

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By Maya Kasowky What follows are short descriptions of Seder customs from around the world. For this lesson each custom can be printed out on a separate card or strip. Circling the seder plate over the heads of each participant, while saying “In Haste we left Egypt”.  The response is “We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt” Where it fits in the seder: The very beginning Where it is from: Morocco and Tunisia Putting the shank bone, charoset, maror, karpas, egg,...

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Ma Nishtana in Luganda Tranlated by Gershom Sizomu Compiled by Murray F. Spiegel and Rickey Stein Lwakyi ekyiro kyino kyanjawulo kubiro ebilala byonna? Mubiro ebilala byonna tulya emigati emizimbulukuse oba egitali Mizimbulukuse; mukyiro kyino tulya emigati egitali mizimbulukuse zokka Mubiro ebilala byonna tulya enva zonna zonna; mukyiro kyino tulya enva Ezikawa zokka. Mubiro ebilala byonna tetukoza omulundi nogumu mukyiro kyino tukoza emirundi ebiri. Mubiro ebilala byonna tulya tutudde oba nga tweganzise; mukyiro kyino tulya tweganzise. Why is this night different from...

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By Maya Kasowsky, Rabbinic Intern at Be'chol Lashon Every year at Passover Jews gather round tables to share in the Seder, reliving through custom and ritual, the experience of leaving Egypt and slavery, and emerging into freedom. The words only tell the story. The customs, songs, and foods help create that sense of being there. Around the world, Jews have passed down a variety of traditions that bring the Exodus to life. These global traditions provide wonderful ways to prompt new...

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by Julie Iny     Some Jews prepare for Pesach by getting rid of all their hametz. Last year, I inadvertently created a ritual for a near reenactment of the 40 days and 40 nights our people spent wandering in the desert when I decided to learn how to make halaik, the date syrup that is the critical and divine ingredient of Iraqi charoset.  In years past, my Aunt Rachel, keeper of many Iraqi and Indian-Iraqi culinary and cultural traditions, would, because she...

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During Maggid, Syrian Jews throw sacks of matzah over their shoulders and say a special verse in Hebrew about leaving the Egypt in haste.

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By Marissa Weitzman One of my earliest and endearing memories from my childhood is with my Bubbie, Ruth Gipstein, and mother in the kitchen preparing matzoh ball soup for Passover.  To reach the granite countertop, I would balance on a stepping stool and we would set up in an assembly line.  Scoop the dough up, squish and roll it into a ball, and gently drop the sculpture into a pot of boiling water.  After the balls were cooked, we placed them...

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In America, starting in the early 1980s, some people have the custom to put an orange in the middle of their seder plate to express inclusion of all types of people in Judaism.

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Passover is a holiday to remember the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt. Jews from around the world celebrate this holiday in many interesting ways. This haggadah shows some of the most interesting Passover traditions people have around the world.

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In Yemen, instead of spilling ten drops of wine from their cups when the 10 plagues are mentioned, they pour 10 drops from one glass to another and throw that glass into the garden to cast away the plague.