Passover

Jewish families all over the world are turning to communal Passover Seders and Passover retreats as a way to infuse their celebrations with meaningful lessons.

The Aleph Institute is distributing Passover food for those behind bars and organizing communal Seders for family members on the other side.

For recovering addicts, the four cups of the Passover Seder can represent enslavement instead of freedom. A Sober Seder run by a Chabad House in Los Angeles will give them the opportunity to celebrate the holiday without the fear of relapse.

The central Chabad-Lubavitch library in New York posted 1,000 Passover Haggadahs online, some of which are the only copies in the world.

A handful of Chabad-Lubavitch centers across the globe report on last-minute preparations and plans in advance of Passover, which begins Saturday night.

Caterer Linda Bergh, a Santa Fe, N.M., personal chef, is the provider of choice for the city’s Chabad Jewish Center. In the days leading up to Passover, she was busy preparing a gourmet menu for the center’s two Seders on Saturday night and Sunday night.

Although Nepal presents its own special difficulties in coordinating the world’s largest Passover Seders – like a closed border that stalls a shipment of wine and matzah – Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz says such headaches are well worth it.

Every year, thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis and rabbinical students head off for far-flung communities across the globe to lead Passover Seders in small Jewish communities without permanent rabbis. Their families, despite the loss, wouldn’t have it ...

A New Jersey native studying in Santiago, Chile, goes looking for a Passover Seder. Wary of attending a religious event, she ends up at the city’s Chabad House and finds that the experience reminds her of home.

The Jewish Children’s Museum and the Aleph Institute partnered for the project, dubbed Operation: Message in a Matzah. It will kick off on Wednesday, when 500 children will learn about and bake their own matzah at the Brooklyn, N.Y., museum. They will ...