We’ve put together this guide of resources to support your Passover 2021/5781. We hope that these suggestions help you to have a liberating and creative Passover. Chag Sameach! We hope to see you on Friday night April 2nd for our Shabbat of Passover service.

— The Nefesh Team

Last updated: March 26, 2021. Check back regularly! Contents:

• Seder & Guides: Hosting and more
• Haggadot: Find a Haggadah for your household
• Passover Supplies in LA & online
• Children & Families
• Journeys and Jams: Personal stories and music
• New Art and Installations

• New Find a Seder: herefor.com
• How to Host a Zoom Seder for Families – Kveller

• Haggadot.com Offers Expert Advice as Second Pandemic Passover Approaches,
  Jewish Journal

• New Passover Unbound: Inspiration, podcasts and activities from Judaism Unbound

• Make Your Online Seder Lively, Engaging, and Meaningful – Reform Judaism
• How to Find an Online Passover Seder – My Jewish Learning
• New CDC guidelines could make a family Passover possible, March 8, The Forward
• How to Have a Meaningful Solo Passover Seder, Hey Alma
• Acknowledging and Releasing the Burdens: An Old/ New Ritual for Breaking the Middle Matzah, Moving Traditions
• New Practically Passover: How to Make Your Pandemic Passover Even More Meaningful, Tues March 23, Sandra Caplan Bet Din

Cooking

• PJ Library LA and Culinary Judaics Academy are proud to host a live Zoom Passover workshop on Sunday, March 21st from 4-5 pm PST! $5 per household
• Passover cooking workshops with Nosher, March 14-24: Google Form registration
• New L’Dough V’Dough with NuRoots March 18: connect and bake challah with local Holocaust survivors while hearing their incredible stories of freedom

New PlastOver

Plastover: An Exodus from Plastic Waste: Rabbi Susan Goldberg worked with Reboot on this drive to go without plastic for Pesach this year.

• Plastover video from Reboot & the Big Bold Jewish Climate Fest (video)
• Plastover resources and checklist (Google Drive link), and
• See www.rebooters.net/plastover for full details

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• Human Rights Haggadah, Truah
• The Kveller Haggadah for purchase in English and Spanish
  
• From Haggadot.com:
  • Women’s Seder
  • JQ International GLBT Haggadah
  • Passover Meditation Guide
  • A Haggadah for Justice
    
• JewBelong Passover Haggadah 2021
• A Brief History of Queer Haggadahs, Alma
• New Bend the Arc Liberation Haggadah
• New Passover 2021 at JewishLive.org: Haggadot including social justice supplements, seders, games, and more
• New Nefesh Haggadah Add-On Questions: Community Writing Prompts. These two questions will get you to reflect on the past year and you can share your answers with our community. Nefesh Community

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• Western Kosher: www.westernkosher.com
  Two locations in LA; they deliver to most of Los Angeles area

• Gelson’s: multiple locations
  Decent selection of Kosher for Passover products and Kosher wine

• Haggadahs, seder plates, matzah covers, etc:
  House of David Judaica
  12511 Burbank Blvd, Valley Village, CA 91607
  818/763-2070 Contact: Odelia Gabay
  
• Nuroots Collective Escape: Order your Seder kit with delivery in the LA area New
  
• Modern Tribe has a selection of fun plates, accessories, and gifts
  moderntribe.com/collections/passover
  
• Trader Joe’s has matzah if you get it before it runs out!

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• Passover + Social Justice + Puzzles
  www.escapetheplagues.com
  
• PJ Library Passover for Kids
  Lots of resources for families including music (also see below for kids music)
  
• Days United: Passover Box for Kids
• Virtual Passover Activities for Kids – 18 Doors 
• 11 Ways to Make a Passover Seder Fun for Kids – Parents.com
• A Rugrats Passover: Full cartoon episode – DailyMotion
  
• Activity from Kveller: Craft workshop for kids, making afikomen bags March 23: Google Form to register

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• Comments on: Alone on Passover? Me Too.
  Avi Liberman, Jewish Journal
  
• Rewind: Pesach, Patience, and Seinfeld-Era Memories of Matzah and Maror
  Bobby Apperson, Newish Jewish Nefesh Community
  
• On Passover Night, Let’s Relinquish Our Fear – My Jewish Learning
  
• Exodus 2021: Exodus Walk in Highland Park begins 3/27
• Nefesh Pesach Playlist: Music and podcasts compiled by Bobby Apperson featuring Nefesh Assoc. Music Director, Sally Dworsky! Nefesh Community

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• New DWELLING IN A TIME OF PLAGUES: A JEWISH CREATIVE RESPONSE TO REAL-WORLD PLAGUES OF OUR TIME
  Launches March 26 (virtual event) with installations in 6 cities across North America on COVID, darkness, housing insecurity, single-use plastic, food insecurity, grief and loss, racism, xenophobia, and more

• New Exodus Walk 2021 in Highland Park audio guided tour, Saturday March 27
• New Join Nefesh at “Let My People Go!” a Passover car rally for immigration justice against the expansion of the Adelanto detention facility for immigrants Tuesday Mar 30 at 9AM FB link here: https://www.facebook.com/events/472526427121304/

• New Desert X isn’t specifically Jewish, but it’s an escape to the desert and features social commentary on the First Nations / Native lands and their theft. One of their guiding principles: Promoting cultural exchange and education programs that foster dialogue and understanding among cultures and communities about shared artistic, historical, and societal issues

Chag Sameach!

May your Passover 2021 be the best you can make it during these difficult times.

Join Nefesh for the Shabbat of Passover
Friday April 2nd, 7pm PT Nefesh Community