Passover Information

Seder Matching | Service Times | Selling Chametz | Passover Links

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Need a Seder? Need a Seder Guest?
Matchmaker, matchmaker. . .

Please contact Laurie Krieger at lekrieger@aol.com or leave a message at
(301) 942-9718.

For seder host/esses: please state your name, which night(s), number ofguests you can accomodate, starting time, close to which public transport (if any), type of seder (traditional, feminist, etc.), type of food and level of pesach-keeping (will vegans find enough to eat? will meat-eating guests eagerly anticipating chicken soup and matzoh balls be disappointed?), and finally--your phone number.
For seder guests: please state your name, phone number, which night(s) you'd like to attend, any preference for kind of seder, level of pesach observance, any food restrictions/requirements, and transportation needs.
Fabrangen always tries to match everyone. Should there be a shortage of host/esses (never happened so far), Fabrangen members take precedence.

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Fabrangen Service Schedule
Passover 5764

• Saturday, April 3 - Shabbat HaGadol Services: 9:30 AM at WES Torah Portion: Tzav, Kiddush: Hosted by Rose Berstein and Anna-Leah Berstein-Simpson, Havadalah: 7:46 PM
• Monday, April 5 - Ta'anit Bechorot - Fast of the Firstborn, First Seder, Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Candle Lighting: 7:18 PM
• Tuesday, April 6 - First Day Pesach Services: 9:30 AM at WES, Second Seder, Begin Counting Omer
• Wednesday, April 7 - Second Day Pesach, Havdalah: 8:50 PM
• Thursday, April 8 - Third Day Pesach - Chol Hamoed
• Friday, April 9 - Fourth Day Pesach - Chol Hamoed Shabbat, Candle Lighting: 7:22 PM
• Saturday, April 10 - Fifth Day Pesach Shabbat Services: 9:30 AM at WES Shabbat Chol Hamoed Pesach, Set-Up: Doris Hamburg and Gerry Garfinkel
• Sunday, April 11 - Sixth Day Pesach - Chol Hamoed, Candle Lighting: 7:23 PM
• Monday, April 12 - Seventh Day Pesach Services, including Yizkor: 9:30 am at WES
• Tuesday April 13 - Eighth Day Pesach, Havdalah: 8:55 PM

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Selling Your Chametz
Thanks to David Schneyer

If you haven't already made arrangements, David Shneyer will be pleased to make arrangements for purchase of your chametz for Pesach. Contact him today or Sunday, preferably today, at Am Kolel (15 W Montgomery Avenue, Rockville, MD.) Either call (301 309-2310) and leave a message, or
email him directly (amkolel@aol.com) Feel free to use the authorization, below, if you cut, paste and email your request. Please be sure to reach him, however. He may take another approach.

Selling Your Chametz: 5764
Jewish law requires that we own no chametz at all during Pesach. To insure compliance with this halacha, we may transfer title of whatever chametz we have to a person who is not Jewish. Thus, legally, the chametz is not ours during Pesach. (This applies to people going out of town as well. If you will be away from your home 30 days or more before Pesach and including Pesach, there's no need to do Bedikat Chametz, just sell the contents.) As he did last year, David will perform the transfer ceremony, called
Mechirat Chametz, literally the Selling of Chametz. He will collect all the authorizations and transfer the chametz to a non-Jew. Following Pesach, the non-Jew will return the authorizations to him so that possession reverts back to the owner. Everyone must arrange for the sale of chametz and vessels used for chametz before Pesach for his or her own household. In connection with the sale, fill in the form below authorizing Reb David to sell your chametz. The sale must be completed by 8:00 a.m. on the morning before the first Seder; therefore the form needs to be no later than Sunday, April 4.

This year we again invite you to contribute some amount, any amount (no amount is too small) to buy back your chametz. This money will go to Am Kolel. This, too, is a mitzvah! If you submit a form, your chametz will be included in the sale whether or not you send an amount for re-purchasing.

Send your forms and checks or cash directly to David Shneyer. If writing a check, please make it payable to Am Kolel. Write "Chametz Tzedakah" in the memo section of your check.

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APPOINTMENT OF AGENT FOR THE SALE OF CHAMETZ
I, ___________________________________, hereby authorize David Shneyer to
act as my agent to sell any chametz that may be in my possession wherever it
may be; at my home, place of business, car, vacation home or elsewhere, in
accordance with Jewish law.
Name________________________________________________________________
Street Address_______________________________________________________
City, State, ZIP_______________________________________________________
Signature_________________________________________Date_________________

 

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Passover Links
Courtesy of Clare Feinson & Rachel Braun

Annotated list of approved brand-name Pesach foods - http://www.kashrut.org/pesach/

Pesach foods not needing Pesach supervision - http://ou.org/pdf/5764/passdir04/PD04-Gray.pdf

Pesach Journal, Yeshivat Har Etzion - http://www.vbm-torah.org/pesach.htm

Jacob Richmond’s hot Pesach sites- http://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/j-hdaypa.htm

Uncle Eli’s Hagaddah - www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Uncle_Eli/Eli_Intro.html - with music!

Portal - http://www.machers.com/directory/Holidays_and_Observances/Passover/index.html

Multilevel Pesach IQ quiz (with prizes) - http://www.ou.org/jewishiq/pesach/enter.htm

Online Pesach games for tots - http://www.torahtots.com/holidays/pesach/pesgames.htm

From Pesach to Shavuot - http://www.bus.ualberta.ca/yreshef/pesach/index.html

100s of great Passover recipes - http://www.cyber-kitchen.com/holidays/passover/foodlinks.htm

Jewish national sound archives - http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/music/passover/

Craig Taubman’s multi-artist Pesach song fest - http://www.celebrateseries.com/indexp.html

Portal to Much, Much Passover Music - http://www.kosher4passover.com/songs.htm

Alan Eder’s Reggae Pesach - http://www.reggaepassover.com/songs.html

Kashrut.com - http://www.kashrut.com/ - "a highly entertaining website--the one that, this side of the Atlantic, broke the joyous news about kosher-for-Passover quinoa to a variety-starved Jewish nation"