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The most engaging Passover Seder I experienced took place in 2008, during my first year of study at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem. Friends invited me to join them [...]

Who’s coming to your Seder this year? Maybe you’re hosting the family and friends. Maybe even someone new. But the Seder is most complete when we also include others, people who may not otherwise [...]

Ten Ways to Make Your Family Seder Accessible for All Learners Child-friendly ideas for your Passover Seder Passover Seder Tracker

We’ve been doing a lot of thinking over the past couple of months about what the best educational setting is for R. Much like our questions about camps, we’ve wondered if we are doing the right [...]

Why is the fourth child unable to ask a question at the Seder? I want to approach this question by first telling you a story about what took place on a recent Sunday morning at Beth Shalom, when [...]

We are about to celebrate Pesach. In many of our homes, we have been cooking and cleaning and preparing to read the story of the Exodus from Egypt. We will share stories and memories of seders [...]

The Purim costumes are hardly off our children. The smell of cotton candy and popcorn lingers in the air. We can still hear the melodies of favorite songs used in schpiel parodies. And it might [...]

Sometimes the Passover seder can feel a bit long. Here is one activity that will engage children and help make the seder educational for every type of learner.  In the Matan Seder Tracker, [...]

The song “Who Knows One” is very popular at lots of Passover Seders, but for some kids it can be difficult to keep up and remember which number goes with what. Print Matan’s visual version “Who [...]

Passover Bingo is one of our favorite ways to keep kids engaged during the Passover seder. You can give out sheets of stickers for marking the boxes on the bingo boards.  We suggest you make [...]