Last Minute Passover List March/April 2018

POSTED BY
Evelyn Kanter

Passover 2018 begins at sundown tonight, Mar. 30, with the First Seder, and lasts for a week, overlapping with Good Friday and Easter. Here’s a last minute Passover week list that includes what you need to know about alternate side of the street parking rules for the week.

Find a Seder – If you are not cooking yourself, or going somewhere for a home-cooked Passover meal, there still are spots left at some community centers and synagogues for seders open to the public, including inter-faith families and friends.

Check this list from the UJA Federation New York for seders in all five NYC boroughs, plus in Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk.

Download a FREE printable Hagaddah from Chabad.

Send a FREE digital Passover card

NYC Parking Regulations for Passover, Good Friday and Easter Sunday

Saturday/Sunday, March 31/April 1

Jewish Museum FREE admission in celebration of Passover

Wed., April 04

Family Passover Celebration at the Museum of the City of New York – A special Passover Story led by Student Rabbi, Devon Spier, plus traditions and songs in honor of the Passover holiday. Explore images from our collections to learn about elements of Jewish culture. Enjoy Passover macaroons and create a seder plate cover tapestry in time for the holiday, geared toward families with children ages 6-12 years old, and include a snack. Activities are designed for adults and children to complete together. FREE with museum admission, at 11am. Registration recommended.

Giants of the Lower East Side – Explore the tall tales of turn-of-last century figures, and the buildings where they lived, worked and prayed, in this Holy Week walking tour. It starts in the historic sanctuary of the Eldridge Street Synagogue, where you will learn about the characters associated with this fabulously restored house of worship, and a small kosher for Passover snack.

The tour includes the building that housed a newspaper edited by a famous Yiddish Socialist, the settlement house founded by a tenacious 26 year old nurse, a yeshiva associated with one of this century’s most famous rabbis, and a former Bank building currently undergoing a major renovation, and ends with a visit to the Magnificent and wildly colorful Bialystoker Synagogue, where you will see the memorial plaque of a noted gangster.