Chag Pesach Sameach!

Below are links to all our information about Passover. If you have any questions please call the office. We hope you can join us at the second seder.

Rabbi Arnow's Message
Important Passover 2025 Dates/times
RSVP for Kol Rinah Second Seder April 13 (RSVP by April 7th)
Young Families Passover Play Date & Craft (April 6th, contact Karen Kern for info)
Sale of Chametz PDF or Online (return by 9am Friday morning, April 11)
Donate to Maot Hittim PDF or Online (Pesach food for the needy)
Rabbinical Assembly Pesach Guide
10 Tips for a Memorable Seder
Community Assistance

If you are in need of Passover food, or have any Passover-related questions, please be in touch with us.

Next year, we will be free.

L'shalom,

Rabbi Noah Arnow

March 2025 / Adar 5785

Dear Kol Rinah Family,

“On all other nights we eat sitting or reclining. Tonight, we all recline.” -The Third Question

Many of us have been feeling on edge, whether about America or Israel, for ourselves or for others, or for all of it. This may not feel like the time to sit back at the Seder and recline.

For much of Jewish history, Passover seders were celebrated in places and times where Jews lacked power, agency, security and stability. Reclining amidst and despite poverty and powerlessness was an insistence on and reaffirmation of our spiritual riches: “In this world, today, we may be struggling, but this one night a year, we will recline like royalty.”

This year, let’s “lean into” reclining, both to remind ourselves of who we are, and to get a respite from how we have to be so many other days, and nights.

Kol Rinah is offering a congregational second seder again this year, at which we’ll recline, debate, celebrate, sing, and of course, eat. Everyone who wants to come (who RSVPs by April 7th) is welcome. Call the office or go to our website to sign up, and please contact me if cost is a concern.

Join me on Tuesday, March 25 at 7:30pm (in person) as we think together about how to shape this year’s seders for what our souls, our guests and our world need.

Enclosed are some important materials for preparing for Passover. Included in this mailing are:

Kol Rinah’s Passover Schedule
Sale of Chametz Form-return no later than Friday, April 11 at 9am (also available to do online)
Maot Hittim (Pesach food for the needy) Donation Form (especially important this year)
2025/5785 Rabbinical Assembly Pesach Guide

If you are in need of Passover food, or have any Passover-related questions, please be in touch with me. Additionally, if you are looking for a seder to attend, please call the office.

Wishing you a zissen Pesach—a sweet Passover!

L'shalom,

Rabbi Noah Arnow

Community Assistance

The Harvey Kornblum Food Pantry has food available, kosher and non-kosher food, as well as Passover food.  Details are here.

JFS has mental health services available at this anxiety-provoking time including free and low-cost counseling.  More information is here.

The JCC is offering prepared kosher meals, as well as prepared kosher for Passover meals. They are available for anyone who needs them, regardless of ability to pay, and also for purchase at full price. Meals can also be gifted.  The Passover menu and info is here.  The regular menu and general info is here.

If you're interested in volunteering at the Harvey Kornblum Food Pantry, they could use help.

Mon, April 28 2025
30 Nisan 5785

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