Pesach

Hag Pesach Sameach!  This year's services will be held virtually.  For all Passover festival and Shabbat services during Pesach, there is a new page with all the special additional prayers and readings for the holiday including hallel, yizkor and musaf. Please download from this new webpage the additional holiday material. We are using Siddur Lev Shalem for all festival and Shabbat services and Siddur Sim Shalom for shaharit and weekday afternoon services.  Click here to access Shir HaShirim for 7th day.
Scroll down to see our Pesach service schedule & programming!

Memorial Plaques and/or a listing in the Golden Book of Remembrance is a beautiful way to remember a loved one. Orders may be placed anytime during the year, but are dedicated twice yearly, at Yizkor Pesach and Yom Kippur. The deadline for orders for Pesach is Wednesday, March 10, 2021. Contact Diane Dronzek to place an order or to learn more.

Pesach Service Schedule 5781

Tuesday, March 9
at 8:00 pm;
Thursdays, March 11 & 18 at 7:00 pm

Join Murray Berkowitz, Tova Cohen and Zoom Master Chad Cohen for cooking fun. For Tuesday’s class, we will join the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs and we will be broadcast nationally and in Canada! Please note the Zoom link for this session is different than usual and there is no password.  Read the recipes in advance so you can have all the ingredients set up and ready: Cream of Asparagus Soup, Chicken Marbella, Smashed Potatoes, Healthy Homemade Microwave Potato Chips, Parve Chocolate Mousse. 

For the Thursday sessions, the link is our usual:  Zoom, Meeting ID:  86468670994. March 11 will feature mushroom bourguignon, coconut chicken cutlets with almond butter sauce, broccoli souffle and chocolate chip meringues. Our cooks will be Tova Cohen, Stephanie Berkowitz and Jana Rossman Lazarus. Also listed here are past recipes that can be used on Passover. View past recipes here.

Thursday, March 11
at 8:00 pm

Jordan B. “Gorf” Gorfinkel, creator of the Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel, joins us to discuss the lessons and hidden secrets of the Haggadah to make this year’s Passover Seder new and different. Learn how the principles of superhero storytelling helped Gorf turn our ancient 2000-year-old Haggadah into the universally exciting and inspiring top selling graphic novel of the year. Learn more about Gorf here and watch a trailer here. Order a discount copy here or get an autographed copy with a drawing inside at here.    Zoom, Meeting ID: 96610498629.

Thursday, March 18
at 4:30 pm

For our next Holiday Chavaya program, Passover in 3D, create your own table-scape: a scene from the Passover story to add to your seder table! Pick up a curated kit for use at the program. Learn more and register for a kit here.
Zoom, Meeting ID:  98592008942

We gratefully acknowledge the Retreat Institute (RI) and Congregational Enrichment Funds (CEF) of the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland (JEC) for
financial and programmatic assistance. The JEC’s RI and CEF are supported by the Fund for the Jewish Future of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland.

Sunday, March 21
at 11:00 am

Brianna Caplan Sayres is the author of Asteroid Goldberg:  Passover in Outer Space, among other modern Jewish children's classics.  She looks forward to blasting off with our kids for an Intergalactic Passover Adventure which will include a reading of her out-of-this-world Passover fantasy!  Learn more about her here.  Publisher Intergalactic Afikoman is offering an 18% discount on all their books (including preorders) purchased through Monday, April 5. Discount Code: BnaiJeshurun.  Zoom, Meeting ID: 984 009 2086.  

Thursday, March 25
6:30 pm for Young Families 8:00 pm Congregational

On the night before Passover, Jews are obligated to search their homes for hametz. Due to Passover beginning on Shabbat this year, this ritual will take place earlier. We want our BJC family to experience this tradition together. Therefore, we are providing
our members with a “bedikat hametz kit” containing all
the supplies necessary for the search.

You can pick up your kit anytime during synagogue hours where they will be located inside B'nai Jeshurun on our front table. They will also be available for pick up outside the synagogue on March 21 between 9:15-10:15 am (while supplies last.) Then, join us to take part in this mitzvah. We will search our homes and prepare for Passover together. Please Zoom with a portable device so you can walk around your home with your device. The Zoom link is the same for both sessions:  
Zoom, Meeting ID: 993 4343 6818.

Saturday, April 3
at 10:30 am

Join us on the 7th Day of Passover for a special in-person outdoor program as we celebrate the day the Red Sea split and our ancestors became free people! Attendance capped at 40 people, please e-mail  rabbifoster@bnaijeshurun.org  to RSVP.