Category Archives: Parenting

Passover 2019

Passover resources

Here are a few of the resources that we’ve been using to get ready for Passover. It includes

Kids Passover Playlist

We’ve been prepping the kids for the Seder with a playlist on Spotify. It features a few versions of Ma Nishtana and some other Seder songs.

Haggdah

PJ Library Haggadah

PJ Library offers free books for Jewish families. If you haven’t signed up for it yet, head over to their site immediately! This year they totally outdid themselves when they sent us 6 copies of In Every Generation: A PJ Library Haggadah. We loved it so much we tried to get hold of more, but they are completely sold out for 2019. You can still download a digital version for your e-reader.

2019 Oded Kids Haggadah

Continuing our decades-old family tradition, I made a Seder supplement with kids songs, contemporary interpretations of tradition and humor. It was very easy to compile the supplement using Haggadot.com.

Download the 2019 Oded Kids Haggadah From Hagaddot

Some of the highlights:

  • Four Questions in French
  • Four Questions in German
  • Four Questions in Italian
  • Four Questions in Yiddish
  • The Four Questions of Mental Health
  • Oh listen Song
  • Frogs Song
  • The Ten Plagues from the Rosenberg Holocaust Haggadah
  • A Graduate Student Haggadah: Ten Plagues
  • Ten Modern Plagues

Final Edited Haggadah for Print

Haggadot was a great starting point, and I love the way you can print up a booklet at the push of a button. Unfortunately, it uses very small fonts, so I had to lay it out again for print. For the final version, I added pictures of cats under the Seder table and the plague of frogs from medieval manuscripts.

Download the final version here.

Cats

Frogs

Remembering Ray


Ray Fishler on March of the Living 2008. 
To the right of Ray is my mother’s cousin, Nina Greenwald, one of four of my relatives who did the March with me that year.

Although I resisted it my whole life, this year, I’m invoking the Holocaust during our Seder. For many people, the Seder is their only point of contact with Jewish history and tradition. That makes it an important educational opportunity. We are using the 10 plagues from the Rosenberg Holocaust Haggadah which mentions the names of Nazi death camps near each plague.

I visited those camps on March of the Living in 2008. My guide was a survivor named Ray Fishler who passed away this year. At our Seder, I will mention Ray and the impact he had on my life and the lives of many others. There are so few survivors left. It’s our responsibility to continue telling their story.

Ray Fishler

Chad Gad Yaw

The Seder isn’t over until we all sing Chad Gad Yaw from the Maxwell House Hagaddah.

passover chad gad yaw

If your children are still toddlers, please check out the Toddler Seder we did in 2015:

Toddler Seder 2015

Make your own meat-stuffed matza balls:

meat stuffed matza balls