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RESOURCES FOR VIRTUAL SEDERS

Are you intending to have a Virtual Seder? You can plan a Zoom with family and friends or attend streaming Temple services. Here are some resources to help you plan a Seder this year that will certainly be different from all other years.

How to Do a Pre-Seder Zoom Gathering
https://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/4699650/jewish/How-to-Do-a-Pre-Seder-Zoom-Gathering.htm

Guide to Hosting (or Attending) a Virtual Passover Seder – Jewish Forward
https://forward.com/life/443056/you-can-do-it-your-guide-to-hosting-or-attending-a-virtual-passover-seder/

How to Make Your Virtual Seder Lively, Engaging, and Meaningful
https://reformjudaism.org/how-make-your-virtual-seder-lively-engaging-and-meaningful

Resources from UJA Federation of New York
https://www.centralsynagogue.org/worship/holidays_and_festivals/passover

The Coronavirus Seder Planner
http://haggadahsrus.com/

Useful Tips from the Jewish Federation of Philadelphia (including Downloadable Haggadot)
https://blog.jewishphilly.org/need-a-downloadable-haggadah-we-got-ya

Make your own Haggadah
https://www.haggadot.com

Join NCJW Inc.’s Passover Webinar on April 7 at 4:30 pm: Resistance Lessons from the Heroines of the Passover Story. To register, visit
https://www.ncjw.org/ncjwebinars/

My Seder Menu – Adaptable Dishes from the New York Times (note you can login without a password)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/dining/alison-roman-passover.html

More Passover Recipes from The New York Times
https://cooking.nytimes.com/topics/passover

Attend a Seder Online
Check to see if your Temple is streaming a Seder – or consider ‘attending’ one of these.

Central Synagogue, New York https://www.centralsynagogue.org/worship/holidays_and_festivals/passover

Kol Dorot in Bergen County is holding an online Seder for the Second Night of Passover, Thursday, April 9th. Sign up at Kol Dorot Online Seder.

AND LASTLY …

Let us hope and pray that by next year the planes will be flying and once more Next Year in Jerusalem will be a reality.

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