DMV Passover Guide 2021/5781

by GatherDC Staff / March 1, 2021

Dear Jewish DC/NoVA,

Everything you need for your best-ever, second Passover during a pandemic (we got this!) is below. But first, read this Passover message from Rabbi Ilana Zietman. Second, get a quick retelling of the Passover story. Okay, now onto the fun Passover events and stuff.

With love,

The GatherDC Team

P.S. Not sure which of these events is the right fit for you? Want to host your own virtual seder? Check out OneTable or see these helpful FAQs for keeping your seder simple.

P.P.S. Need some human interaction or just want to vent about, ya know, everything? Grab coffee with a Gather team member over Zoom or meet up socially distanced.

Know of a Passover event not listed? Add it here!

DMV Passover Events

Pre-Passover Events

Tuesday, March 9th
- 8:15pm: HerTorah – Passover 2021 Gathering
Thursday, March 11th
- 2:00pm: Pre-Passover Celebration of Female Voices of Freedom for International Women’s Day
Thursdays, March 11th and 18th
- 6:30pm: A Beginner’s Passover Seder Workshop (Apply ASAP)
Saturday, March 13th – Sunday, March 14th
- 7:30pm: Stepping into Liberation: A Pre-Passover Recovery Retreat
Tuesday, March 16th
- 7:00pm: Seder Says with Sixth & I
- 8:00pm: Virtual Passover Cooking Demo with Chef Michael Solomonov
Wednesday, March 17th
- 7:00pm: Jewish Flavor: Passover Prep
Thursday, March 18th
- 8:00pm: Passover Deep-Dive: Jewish Law, Practice, and Custom
Sunday, March 21st
- 3:00pm: Free Your Pesach From Fatphobia w/ Rabbi Minna Bromberg, PhD
- 5:00pm: 13th Annual Virtual National Rainbow Seder with GLOE
Monday, March 22nd
- 8:00pm: The Power to Cultivate Change: Passover Text Study and Discussion
Tuesday, March 23rd
- 6:00pm: Pre-Passover Happy Hour with EntryPointDC and NOVA Tribe
Wednesday, March 24th
- 4:00pm: Matzah Making Workshop with Kveller
- 6:30pm: Virtual Chocolate Seder with Moishe House DC-NoMa
Friday, March 26th
- 10:00am: Burning Hametz with Adas Israel
- 12:00pm: Passover Pick-Me Up at Sixth & I – Passover goodies from Chef Vered Guttman

Passover Events (FYI: Passover is from Saturday, March 27th – Sunday, April 4th):

Saturday, March 27th (1st night seder)
- 6:00pm: Virtual Seder with Washington Hebrew Congregation
- 7:00pm: Burning Manischewitz – JewBelong.com’s Virtual Passover Seder
- 7:00pm: Liberated – A Passover Seder with Sixth & I
- 7:00pm: Seder on Demand with Washington Hebrew Congregation
- 7:45pm: SederStream 2.0: the Den’s Virtual Passover Seder

Sunday, March 28th (2nd night seder)
- 10:30am: Passover Festival Service with Washington Hebrew Congregation
- 12:00pm: Sixth & I Pop-up Food Distribution Sites for Passover – The Farm at Kelly Miller (301 49th St. NE) and DC Fridge Collective (2815 Stanton Rd. SE)
- 5:00pm: Humanistic Passover Seder with Machar
- 5:30pm: Virtual Second Night Seder with Temple Rodef Shalom
- 7:00pm: Second Night Community Seder with Adas Israel
- 7:00pm: Second Night Seder with Chabad
- 7:00pm: One Seder, Second Night with OneTable
- 7:00pm: Burning Manischewitz – JewBelong.com’s Virtual Passover Seder

Monday, March 29th
- 12:00pm: The Passover Daily with Temple Rodef Shalom

Tuesday, March 30th
- 11:00am: Uyghur Freedom Seder

Wednesday, March 31st
- 6:00pm: Jewish Veg Zeder
- 7:00pm: Let My People Flow – A Passover Yoga Class
- 7:30pm: Not Your Average Seder with Rodef 2100

Thursday, April 1st

Friday, April 2nd

Saturday, April 3rd
- 10:00am: Shabbat: Day Off with Sixth & I
- 10:30am: Shabbat, Yizkor, and Passover Festival Service

Sunday, April 4th

Local Passover Food

Anxo: Passover Pack (cider, matzah ball soup, matzah toffee)
Baked by Yael: Matzah
Bread Furst: Seder for four
Call Your Mother Deli: Passover tacos
Carving Room: Matzah ball soup
Celebrity Delly: Turkey, Brisket, Salmon and meal kits
Chabad: Seder kits, wine, matzah, and optional dinner
Char Bar: 3-course seder dinner
Chutzpah Deli: Full holiday menu + desserts
Duke’s Grocery: Holiday meal and drinks
Equal Exchange: Kosher for Passover chocolate (note: not local)
Equinox: Passover in a Box
Founding Farmer’s: Order by March 22nd
Kosher Pastry Oven
Moti’s Market: Passover store
Parkway Deli: Passover party platters
Provisions: Catering
Ridgewell’s: Delivery and pick-up
Shalom Kosher/Signature Caterers: Must order by March 15th
Soupergirl: Passover Menu
Talia’s Cuzina: Order online by March 22nd
Tatte Bakery: Passover gift boxes, cookies, matzo bark
Wagshal’s: Delivery and pick-up
Whole Foods Market: Availability may be limited

Ways to Give Back

Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger
Yad Yehuda of Greater Washington
Masbia Soup Kitchen Network
Hebrew Free Loan Association of Greater Washington
Jewish Federation’s COVID-19 Response Fund
World Jewish Relief
American Jewish World Service
Check out this crowdsourced list of ways to help our DC area neighbors

Passover Recipes

Starters
- Charoset (note: replace wine with grape juice for alcohol-free version)
- Horseradish
- Matzo Ball Soup (try this vegan version)
- Mock Chopped Liver
- Roasted Tzimmies
- Sephardic Charoset Truffles
Entrées
Desserts
- Apple Cake
- Black Bean Brownies
- Caramel Chocolate Matzo Brittle
- Chocolate Cake
- Chocolate Dipped Funfetti Macaroons
  - Or try these Chocolate Caramel Macaroons
  - Or these Dark Chocolate Pistachio Macaroons
- Matzah Toffee
Vegan/Vegetarian
- Vegan Passover Recipes, VegNews
- VIDEO: Vegan Passover Cooking, Jewish Veg
- 9 Vegan Passover Recipes, Live Kindly
- 23 Vegan Passover Seder Recipes, Bustle.com
Recipe Round-Ups
- 18 Minute Matzah, ReformJudaism.org
- 50+ Passover Recipes, What Jew Wanna Eat
- Mizrahi and Sephardic Passover Recipes, Jimena
- Passover Food, The Nosher
- Passover Recipes, Jewish Food Experience
- Passover Recipe Guide, OneTable
- Sample Meal Plan, AlephBeta
- Sephardic Passover Food, NPR.org
- Traditional Passover Recipes, The Spruce Eats

Seder Hosting Resources

Seder Inspiration

Seder Discussion Tops
- 10 Great Discussion Questions for Seder, ReformJudaism.com
- Do We Know How to be Free This Passover? By Amanda Herring, GatherDC
- Holistic Passover Detox, At The Well
- Passover: Healing, Resilience, and Hope, the Den Collective
DIY Seder Ideas
- Nine Tips to a Kick-Ass Seder, JewBelong
- How to Host a Virtual Passover Seder, HeyAlma
- How to Hold Seder in the Year of Coronavirus, ReformJudaism.org
- Keep Seder Simple: FAQs for Your Virtual Passover, GatherDC
- Miriam’s Cup, My Jewish Learning
- Passover Pinterest Board, OneTable
- Passover Shabbat, OneTable
- Passover Songs, JewBelong
Passover Prep
- A Sober Person’s Guide to Jewish Holidays, HeyAlma
- Passover for Interfaith Families, 18 Doors
- The Passover Seder Plate and New Traditions, TheKitchn.com
- Three Essentials for Surviving Passover During a Pandemic, by Joe Levin-Manning, GatherDC
- Popular Passover Resources, T’Ruah
- Seder Distancing: Passover in the Time of COVID-19 by Itay Baley, GatherDC
- Social Action Guide, ReformJudaism.org
Passover Food for Thought
- Cooking My First Passover Seder, Jewish Food Experience
- Free Your Passover from Fatphobia!, Fat Torah
- My Vegetarian Shankbone, My Jewish Learning
- Passover Recipe Cookbook, Temple Rodef Shalom
- Seder Kashering and Food Purchasing, Rabbinical Assembly
- Vegan Guide to Passover Seder, VegNews
- What Is Kosher for Passover?, My Jewish Learning