Kitchen Passover
the story of all stories
Kitchen Social Club
2nd Night Seder
Greens Restaurant
Tuesday, April 23rd
6:30-9:00 PM
$68 per person
For Kitchen members & one guest
Join us for our 3rd annual dynamic KSC 2nd Night Seder to explore the questions of constriction, freedom, and order in our lives and our world.
Following the brutal constriction of slavery, the Israelites are faced with a new challenge – freedom. Freedom, in many ways a gift, presents its own difficulties. Thus, enters order. Order – something in between complete enslavement and complete freedom. Order comes in many forms – stories, symbols, family, community, work, God, seder. Seder is order. (Literally, seder means order in Hebrew.)
Space is limited, and we will sell out!
Exclusively for Kitchen members in their 20s & 30s and one guest. If you aren’t a member yet, check out our membership options here or email Spencer Weiss for more information.
As always, we want The Kitchen to be a place for everyone. Let us know if you have financial barriers and we’ll make sure you have a spot at the seder table.
Kitchen Playground Passover Experience
Glen Canyon Park
Sunday, April 21st
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
For families with kids ages 0-5
Prepare for Passover by traveling back in time to the Exodus with acting, music, stories, movement, food, and more. We’ll re-enact the Exodus with music, stories, movement, scavenger hunts, sensory experiences, and of course – eating. We’ll provide the ritual nosh – matzah, maror, charoset, karpas – and bring your own picnic blanket and lunch to enjoy.
Prepare for Passover
Stories of Freedom
with Rabbi Noa Kushner
The CJM
Wednesday, April 3rd + April 10th
7:00 - 8:30 PM
Rabbi Noa Kushner is opening up her 18 Stories of Jewish Thought class for all those seeking a little (or big) refresher on all the stories that will open up real discussion at your tables. Here's what you can expect:
Rabbi K’s approach to telling our story of all stories
“Top 10 List” for Seder Do’s and Don’ts
Spencer Weiss’ wine flight recommendations for the 4 cups
Top Secret Revealed: R. Michael Lezak’s Kosher for Passover Ahi recipe (just say no to gefilte fish)
Open Q + A with Rabbi Noa for your Seder quandaries
Seder Run of Show
with Rabbi Noa Kushner
The CJM
Wednesday, April 17
7:00 - 8:30 PM
Have you ever just wanted someone to stop the seder so you could ask any question at all (we mean, beyond the traditional four questions!)? Want to understand more of what's going on in real time?
Well, now you can. Rabbi Kushner is opening up 18 Stories for a special session: Our newly inaugurated Kitchen Seder Run of Show. It will be a teaching seder, run in real-time with all questions encouraged, so you will be ready to host your own.
Maleh Shira: Songs of Passover
with Hazzan Asher Shasho Levy
The Firehouse
Thursday, April 18
7:00 - 8:30 PM
If you thought Maleh Shira was epic before, prepare for the Passover edition Hazzan Asher Levy is serving up. Through an interactive workshop, you will explore musical Passover traditions from across the world – Morroco, Poland, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Uzbekistan to name a few – that you can bring home to your own seder table.
We’ll be using rousing melodies to tell the story of Passover for the key seder moments in a range of Jewish traditions and Hallel melodies that express the joy of liberation. Join us and lift up your seder with the beauty, energy, and joy of music.
Learn more about the ongoing interactive workshop led by Kitchen Hazzan, Asher Levy, here.
Passover Resources
Hazzan Asher Shasho Levy’s Passover Playlists
Prepare for Passover with two playlists curated by Asher – one to immerse oneself in the text & music of Passover, and another that’s pure vibes to set the mood for the seder prep.
Spencer Weiss’s Passover Wine Flight
The Kitchen's Executive Director crafted a Passover wine flight with options for each of the 4 cups of wine. Download the wine flight here. All available at D & M Wines.
Cup 1
Famille Peillot Bugey Montagnieu Sparkling
Region – Bugey, France
Available at D & M Wines – $21.99
We start with sparkling wine whenever possible! The Bugey is a small viticultural area not well-known beyond the city of Lyon, where its sparkling Montagnieu has long been a bistro staple. Using methods champenoise, fourth-generation vintner Franck Peillot makes this wine with 50% Mondeuse/50% Altesse and Chardonnay grapes.
A clean profile with moderate acid, mountain mineral and citrus with a floral lift. A great aperitif and companion for your hors d’oeuvres.
Cup 3
2022 Jolie Laide Glou d'Etat Red Wine
Region – California
Available at D & M Wines – $24.99
The name Jolie-Laide translates to Pretty-Ugly, a French term of endearment to describe something that is unconventionally beautiful. Scott Schultz began his transition into the winemaking world after running the beverage program at Thomas Keller’s Bouchon. Based out of Sonoma, Scott and his wife Jenny source fruit from various sites throughout California. Glou d’ Etat is a gulp-able red inspired by many of their European favorites.
Made with 38% Valdiguie, 33% Mourvedre, 17% Grenache, 12% other (Cab Franc, Syrah, Carignan, Petite Verdot), the grapes go through carbonic maceration before being foot-crushed and left to whole cluster fermentation. Creating a lighter drinking style with fresh aromatics and lower tannins. Even better with a chill!
Cup 2
2022 Pedralonga Albarino
Region – Galicia, Spain
Available at D & M Wines – $23.99
Pedralonga, which means “big rock” in Gallego, is a reference to the huge chunks of granite sticking out of the soil. Galician vintner, Miguel Alfonso farms biodynamically following the phases of the moon. They plow only when needed to combat erosion caused by the wet climate and promote the vineyard’s natural biodiversity.
Albarino is a light to medium-bodied white wine historically grown along the Atlantic Ocean giving it great salinity and acidity. This particular albarino has gone through malolactic fermentation in steel tanks giving it a bit more weight and stone fruit on the palate. A fun wine to go with veggies and seafood.
Cup 4
Clos De La Roilette 2022 Fleurie Beaujolais
Region – Beaujolais, France
Available at D & M Wines – $23.99
Beaujolais all day! The official wine region of The Kitchen. Considered one of the finest producers in Beaujolais, Clos de la Roilette yields remarkably age-worthy Gamay. Although we’ll drink this one right away. The farming is sustainable, all vineyard work is by hand; the soils are worked only twice per year, to protect the roots of the older vines.
It has a deep blackcurrant color with a hint of purple, a restrained nose of crème de cassis, a rich, full mouth with aromas of cassis, black cherries, and a nutty character, and finishes with zesty acidity. Very versatile but great with richer dishes!
After-Seder Wine
Matthiasson Sweet Vermouth No. 6
Region – Napa, California
Featured in the New York Times and highly allocated but also available at D & M Wines – $47.99
Our favorite local rock star winemaker and viticulturist, Steve Matthiasson, not only makes fantastic dry wines but dabbles in vermouth as well. The Napa Valley Sweet Vermouth No. 6 can be served neat to accompany dessert or mixed into your Manhattan. A non-vintage solera blend (in the style of sherry) over five years where the older wine gives the dried fruit and spicy-nutty flavors, and the younger wine is more vibrant with fresh fruits.
Orange peel hit with flame, cardamom, cinnamon and light clove. Perfect for that flourless chocolate cake!
Joel Abramovitz’s Recommendations
Check out the curated list of music, videos, virtually retelling, and haggadot recommendations from our Senior Family Educator, Joel Abramovitz. Plus, an entire Haggadah created by Joel – The Kitchen Family + Littles Seder Haggadah and a Virtual read-aloud book of Passover story. An important note from Joel – be careful, the music and videos are ear worms.
Haggadot PDF Downloads + Book Purchases
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The downloadable PDF version of the PJ Library Family Haggadah is interactive, filled with videos of songs, blessings & explanations.
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A downloadable PDF coloring book from Haggadot.com, perfect for the 4 children who need to keep their hands busy.
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The Kveller Haggadah is for curious kids (and their grown-ups). This is a phyiscal book you can purchase direct from Kveller.
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A classic haggadah full of commentaries, art, and ideas for bringing people into the discussion.
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A contemporary version of A Different Night with current voices and new commentary, same interactive storytelling.
Kayla Pollak’s
Recommendations
The Kitchen's Youth & Young Adult Program Director, Kayla Pollak, has curated a list of resources with a social justice perspective on Passover.
Learn the true origin story of the orange on the seder plate, in the words of the professor who began the tradition — An Orange on Plate for Women – And Spit Out Seeds of Hate
Passover resources from Jews For Racial & Economic Justice, including a Black Lives Matter supplement.
Avodah has a wonderful directory of Passover resources for This Moment and Beyond, divided into relevant topics you may want to include in your seder.
Israeli Black Panthers Haggadah
The Israeli Black Panthers Haggadah was first written in 1971, at the beginning of their movement. It was written in a dark tin shack in Jerusalem on a stolen typewriter. In the introduction to this 50th Anniversary Edition, Reuven Abergel, one of the founders of the movement, writes that the Haggadah talks "about the pain, discrimination, and oppression that we were subjected to as part of Israel's policy of separation between Jews from Muslim countries and Jews from Eastern Europe."
A year later, a fire destroyed most of the Israeli Black Panthers' archives, including the Haggadah. It was thought lost for some 40 years until a rabbi who collected Haggadot reached out to Abergel with a copy.
In 2019, a second edition of the Haggadah was published in Hebrew as a pamphlet, an effort initiated through The Civil Archive of Social Struggles in Israel, led by Sapir Sluzker Amran. After that, groups came together with the purpose of making the Israeli Black Panthers struggle and the Haggadah story accessible in both Hebrew and English as a way of promoting dialogue about the potential of Mizrahi struggle in Israel/Palestine.
Translator Itamar Haritan worked closely with Abergel to translate the Haggadah into English starting in 2017 and has updated parts of it since then with his help. The Israeli Black Panthers Haggadah is a completely bilingual (Hebrew-English) book and in addition to the new translation from Haritan and introduction from Abergel, there are other new essays that reflect on the Israeli Black Panthers and the Haggadah text. It also includes powerful archival images of the Panthers and their activism.
