What is Passover? Please click here to read all about it on the Union for Reform Judaism website.
Below you’ll find all our wonderful celebrations for Passover, 2025. We hope to see you there!
10:30 AM | Passover Morning Festival Service
Celebrate this major Jewish holiday with a festival worship service featuring the melodies of Passover and the festivals, as well as a Torah reading. If you can’t join us in person, you are invited to watch online here. Following worship, we will enjoy a Matzah Brei Brunch – see below. (Registration is required for breakfast.)
Following Morning Service | Matzah Brei Brunch
Following our Passover morning service, we will enjoy a Matzah Brei brunch together. Enjoy this Passover favorite, fresh fruit, and other yummy foods. No need to register for worship services but registration is required for brunch. The cost is $10/Temple member adult, $15/non-member, $5/children 12 and under. Click here to register.
5:30 PM | Second Night Seder
TRS offers a congregational second night Seder that is family-friendly, lively, and captivating! We’ll retell the miracle of our liberation from Egypt through story and song while exploring the meaning of the Exodus story in our own time. We will delight in all of the traditional foods of the Seder meal as well. Wine and dessert included. For all the kids and kids-at-heart, don’t forget the hunt for the afikomen! This event is in-person only. Advance registration is required. Please click here to register.
Fri, Apr 18, 6:30 PM
Shabbat and Festival Last Day of Passover Service
Erev Shabbat and Last Day of Passover occur on the same day, so join us as we welcome Shabbat, and add special readings and music to celebrate the end of Passover. The oneg, after the service, will feature Kosher for Passover goodies. Note that Reform and Israeli Jews celebrate 7 days of Passover, while Conservative and Orthodox Jews celebrate an extra day.
Sat, Apr 19, 10:30 AM
Last Day of Passover & Shabbat Parallel Service Welcoming Rabbi Hara Person
Join us for our monthly participatory service in the Mishkan, but this month with a twist! Led by Rabbi Schwartzman, Rabbi Saxe and Rabbi Stein, this monthly alternative guitar-led musical minyan provides an opportunity for members to participate in an informal service and connect in community as it is followed by a kiddish luncheon. Yizkor will be observed for parents, spouses, siblings and children who have passed away. Therefore, the names of all those people who died in the past year will be read.
In addition to prayers celebrating the last day of Passover, we welcome Rabbi Hara Person, CEO of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (the Reform Rabbinic community) who will speak at the service about a new Torah Commentary that the CCAR is launching.
The Temple Rodef Shalom Torah Study Group is sponsoring a few sections of this new commentary. Rabbi Person will study Torah with us beginning at 9:00 AM and worship with us at Parallel Shabbat at 10:30 AM where she will offer a D’var Torah about the new commentary and its importance for congregations like ours.
Table of Togetherness:
A TRS Holiday Meal Matching Program
At Temple Rodef Shalom, we strive to uphold the Jewish values of hospitality (hachnasat orchim) and community (kehillah). Table of Togetherness helps connect members who have an extra seat (or more) at their Seder table with those looking for a welcoming place to celebrate. If you can offer a seat or need one, please use the form below, and we will do our best to make a meaningful match. Together, we can share the warmth and joy of the holidays as one community. Please click here to register.
Fri, Apr 4
5:00 – 7:00 PM
TRSTY Passover Seder
Join TRSTY (Youth Group) for a Decades Theme Passover Seder! All 8th-12th graders are invited to traverse time, enjoy a teen led Seder, and search the temple for the afikomen. Spend the evening at Temple Rodef Shalom with all of your youth group friends! Be sure to dress as up in your decade themed costumes!! Click here for more information and to register.
Wed, Apr 16, 7:30 PM
Rodef 2100 (20s & 30s):
Chocolate Seder
Join Rodef 2100 for a sweet and memorable celebration! 20s & 30s are invited to experience Passover in a whole new way with a Chocolate Seder—a fun, interactive, and delicious twist on tradition! This event takes the themes of the traditional Passover Seder and infuses them with all things chocolate. Please click here to register.
Passover Desserts:
Order by Tues, Apr 1 | Pick up Fri, Apr 11, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM
Celebrate a sweet Passover! For your convenience, you can order some of your favorite Passover desserts from Chantel’s Bakery through TRS! We have many different Passover (kosher-style) desserts to choose from. Please click here to order.
Women of TRS Passover Cookbook
If you don’t have the WoTRS Passover Cookbook,
Celebrating and Creating Traditions: Passover Recipes & Ideas, you can get it now. This user-friendly digital cookbook contains 120+ delicious recipes (that can be used year-round) submitted by TRS clergy, staff, and congregants (with interesting back stories accompanying many of the recipes) to help you spice up your Passover food experience. Please
click here to buy your copy.
Use this song Standing at the Sea – performed by Cantor Sydney Michaeli and written by Ellen Allard – to reflect on Passover and celebrate our freedom. Don’t forget to share it with friends and family!
Not sure what to sing during the Hallel portion of your Passover Seder? Listen to Cantor Shochet sing the psalm that carries the melodic motif of Passover, Hodu L’Adonai. Psalm 118: Praise God, for God is good, God’s steadfast love is eternal; Let Israel declare: “God’s steadfast love is eternal.” Let the House of Aaron declare, “God’s steadfast love is eternal.” Let those who fear God declare, “God’s steadfast love is eternal.” This melody, the same used for the Ashkenazi melody for Adir Hu, that carries the Passover motif, is used in this traditional melody for Hodu L’Adonai, arranged by Abraham Idelsohn.
Make your Seder’s musical! Cantor Shochet has put together a list of songs generally sung in a Seder with recordings and sheet music to help you lead. Click below and enjoy!
Barbara Sarshik’s Passover Parodies
Do you want to make your Seders more participatory and engaging? Visit here to get free, downloadable, and printable song parodies that are clever and easy to sing. There are 80 Passover parodies with lyrics by longtime TRS member Barbara Sarshik and audio and instrumental recordings featuring several other longtime TRS members. See our song index for a list of all the song parodies, including four new ones at numbers 81-84.
