Passover Guide

Updated 4.10.23

Dear friends,

We’re so glad to share our Passover Guide with you, full of resources, information, and events to welcome in this holiday. 

Not sure how you want to celebrate or where to find your people? We’d love to take you to coffee (in-person or virtual!) to chat more about the offerings and where you might find your place.

There’s a teaching in Judaism that we should feel as if we experienced the Passover story ourselves–but how are we supposed to do that in this day and age? If you don’t have plans for the second night yet, we’ll be diving into that question with a GatherBay experience.

Either way, we’d still love to talk with you about how to connect personally to Passover! Drop us a line at info@gatherbay.org or fill out the coffee form linked above 🙂 

Did we miss your event? Take ~2 minutes and submit it to our online calendar, and we’ll get them posted in the guide.

We’ll be continuously updating this guide as we hear about more events in the East Bay and San Francisco, so check back often.

Last thing — want to stay in the loop with all things Jewish in the Bay Area? We send our newsletter usually once every two weeks and you can subscribe here. 

Hope to see you soon! Chag Pesach Sameach, wishing you a meaningful Passover,

The GatherBay team (Lena, R’ Gray, and Caroline)

Monday, April 22

First night of Passover

• 6:00 p.m. Base Bay Seder
  • Outdoors in Rockridge; space is limited so RSVP early!

Tuesday, April 23

Second night of Passover

• 5:30 p.m. Temple Sinai Community Seder
  • All ages in Oakland
• 5:30 p.m. Pomella and Bishulim SF’s Community Seder
  • At Pomella restaurant in Oakland, not-so-traditional and family style, for all ages.
• 6:15 p.m. GatherBay’s More Than Four Questions: A Passover Experience
  • Outdoors in West Berkeley, vegetarian meal
  • Space is limited — please RSVP by April 19!
• 6:30 p.m. Kitchen Social Club 2nd Night Seder
  • Specifically for folks in their 20s and 30s, at Greens Restaurant in San Francisco
  • Space is limited — register early!
• 7:30 p.m. Young Adult Passover Seder at Temple Emanu-El
  • Specifically for folks in their 20s and 30s, indoors
  • Space is limited — register early

Other Seders

• April 27, 4:30 p.m. Community Seder at Kehilla Community Synagogue
  • Mainly vegan meal with fish and gluten-free options, in Oakland
• April 28, 6:30 p.m. End of Passover Seder & Potluck w/ Moho Contra Costa
  • Interactive seder experience specifically for folks in their 20s & 30s

Note: GatherBay highlights experiences and events that will be for/with young(ish) adults. If you’re looking for seders or events for families or young children, J Weekly has an excellent list of more family-friendly experiences.

• April 9, 6:00 p.m. Passover Gift Bag Packing Party with JFCS
• April 14, 1:00 p.m. Passover Kashrut?! Learning & Practice with Base Bay
• April 17, 6:00 p.m. Unity Seder at Temple Sinai
• April 17, 7:00 p.m. Seder Run of Show with The Kitchen’s Rabbi Noa Kushner
• April 18, 7:00 p.m. Maleh Shira: Songs of Passover with Hazzan Asher Shasho Levy with The Kitchen
• April 22, 11:00 a.m. Biur Chametz with BaseBay
• April 24, 7:00 p.m. Chocolate Seder w/MoHo Castro
• April 29, 5:30 p.m. Mimouna w/ Moho Castro
• April 26, 6:00 p.m. Let My People Pho, A Passover Event with Value Culture
• May 2, 7:00 p.m. Mimouna Celebration: post-Passover community festival with JIMENA 

On the Passover table:

• J. Weekly Bay Area Passover Food Guide
• Haroset from around the world
• Tons of Passover recipes from the Nosher

The Haggadah (book describing the order of the Seder) and beyond:

• Passover Resources, Haggadot, and Rituals for This Moment and Beyond from national Jewish nonprofit Avodah
• Matir Asurim, a Jewish Care Network for Incarcerated People, “connects Jewish spiritual, cultural, and communal resources to people who have experienced incarceration,” and has a number of resources for Passover (including a haggadah!). 
• The Jewish Community Library in San Francisco lends out sets of up to ten haggadot in a wide variety of versions at no charge. The haggadot are available on a first come, first served basis, and should be reserved in advance by writing to info@jewishcommunitylibrary.org. They may be picked up from the Library, which is open on Sundays 12-4, and Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays 11-5:30.
• Dancing In-Between (2023 edition) from The Lunar Collective—“Created by a committee of 17 Asian Jews, this new Haggadah is a joyful celebration of being both Asian and Jewish amidst powerful Passover rituals.”
• Find or make your own Haggadah from Haggadot.com (by Recustom)

Are you looking for a haggadah or resource around a specific topic or content area? Odds are, it exists and we’d love to help you find us! Email rabbi.gray@gatherbay.org. 

The views and opinions expressed by the organizations featured on this guide and on this website are solely those of the original organizations. These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of the organization GatherBay, the Gather Inc team, the Gather Inc board, and/or any/all contributors to this site.