Wesleyan Passover 2012

Passover

From Slavery to Freedom - Otto Geismar, 1927

Passover this year begins on the evening of Friday, April 6th and ends on the evening of  Saturday, April14th. 

What You Need to Know about Pesach at Wesleyan:

1. Seder I: Friday April 6th  

2. Seder II: Saturday April 7th

3. Seder  II:  Saturday  April 7th :Seder To Go

4. Meals During Passover (and special rates at Usdan)

5. Passover Lunch: April 9th 12pm-2pm

6. Shabbat Dinner April 13th

7. Help/Volunteers Needed

8. Passover at Weshop

9. So what is Passover Anyway? Cool Passover Websites

 

1. Passover Seder I

Friday April 6th, 2012 at 6:30 PM

Beckham Hall

The Seder is a community celebration that celebrates the Jewish People’s liberation from Egypt. Join us for singing, great discussions and a whole lot of fun.

Please RSVP by April 1st (by 5:00 PM).

The cost is: $16.95 in points/Middletown Cash or
1 meal and $6.95 in points/Middletown Cash

To RSVP, email Val Pucilowski (vpucilowski@wesleyan.edu)
The email must include: your name, WES ID #, and whether you’re paying with points or with cash.

Help needed!
Interested in making this Seder your Seder?

To sign up, go to this website.

Help with pre-Passover planning!
Want to help lead the Seder?  Or consider bringing to the Wesleyan Seder a short reading, an activity, or an object meaningful to you.
 If you’re interested in planning or participating in the Seder, please email          
Rabbi David (dleipziger@wesleyan.edu).
*No background or Hebrew skills required.

 

2. Passover Seder II: Seders-To-Go

For the second Seder, on Saturday April 7th , we will once again offer “Seders-to-Go”.  You choose your friends and the location, we’ll supply the food, matza, grape juice, Seder plate, and the Haggadot (Passover Manual), all available at Shalom Salaam/ “Kosher”.

If you would like to do this, RSVP to vpucilowski@wesleyan.edu by April 1st. Please provide your name, Wes ID #, and indicate whether or not you are a vegetarian.  You will be charged for a meal or equivalent in points. We will have a veggie and a meat option. Seder-to-Go meals must be picked up at Shalom Salaam/ “Kosher” on Saturday April 7th from 5-6 pm.  Each person has to pick up their own meal.

 

3. Passover Non-Traditional Second Seder 

Maddie Neufeld (mneufeld@wesleyan.edu) is planning the second night Seder. There is an alternative Wesleyan haggadah produced by the students of the Contemporary Radical Jewish Thought student forum from two years ago that we can use, but the second night Seder can really take any form that the we want it to take. Please email her if you are at all interested in being involved in this planning in any capacity, or if you have any ideas/suggestions about how you think the Seder should go.

 

4. Meals During Passover:

Shalom Salaam, located in the Usdan Marketplace, will be open for Passover and will be serving “Kosher for Passover” food for the length of the holiday.  It will be open for lunch and dinner, starting with lunch on the 7th and ending with dinner on the 14th.  

Also, the Bayit, located at 157 Church Street, will have a kosher kitchen that has been kashered for Passover.  Feel free to use it!

For more info contact:  Gideon Levy

(glevy@wesleyan.edu)

Passover Meals at Usdan  

For every Kosher for Passover meal you will eat at Usdan, there will be a $1 surcharge.  Starting on March 26th, you can buy a meal package at the cash register (payable with points or cash): 14 meal tickets for $7.00 & 7 meal tickets for $3.50.  Otherwise, the single ticket will cost $1.00 per meal. We will start selling those packages on Monday April 11th, and it will end the next Monday April 18th.    The individual single ticket will be available for purchase from March 29th until April 6th. For more information or to ask questions, please email John at jkehoe@wesleyan.edu.

 

5. Passover Lunch

Please get your food upstairs at Usdan and join us in Usdan 110 so we can all join together in community.

 

6. Shabbat Dinner, Friday April 13th  

On Friday, April13th, join us for a special Shabbat dinner at the Bayit. Services 6:15pm followed by Shabbat Dinner at 7:45pm.  All are welcome!

 

7. Help/Volunteers Needed

We need help with leading the Passover Seder. If you’re interested in planning or participating in the Seder, please email Rabbi David at dleipziger@wesleyan.edu.

 

8. Passover at Weshop

Weshop will carry a limited number of Kosher for Passover products.  Feel free to check them out.

 

9. Cool Passover Websites

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/Jewish_Holidays/Passover.shtml

http://jrf.org/resources-passover

http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/seder_2009