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Pesach
In 2026/5786 Pesach begins at sundown April 1 and ends at sundown either April 8 or April 9 depending on practice.
About This Holiday
Learn from: Aish (Orthodox) | Chabad (Orthodox) | Exploring Judaism (Conservative) | My Jewish Learning (non-denominational) | Reform Judaism
Events
Events listed at Central Time and are on Zoom if no location is noted. Submit an event here.
Young Adult Passover (Bet Shalom) 7 PM Tuesday, April 7. Bet Shalom (13613 Orchard Rd, Minnetonka)
Passover Lunch and Learn (Temple Israel) 12 PM Wednesday, April 8. Temple Israel (2323 Fremont Ave S, Minneapolis)
Moshiach Seudah (Chabad Duluth) 7 PM Thursday, April 9. Chabad Duluth (1122 Valley Dr, Duluth)
Makom Chametz-Fest Shabbat Dinner (Adath Jeshurun) 6 PM Friday, April 17. RSVP for location
Further Resources & Reading
Free Passover ritual items/foods, delivery available (JFCS Hag Sameach)
A Table for Eight: Embracing Community and Dietary Needs at Passover (TC Jewfolk)
Bringing Teens to the Seder Table (Exploring Judaism)
Celebrating Passover With Your Family (PJ Library)
A Holiday for Strays: An Insider’s Look at TC Jewfolk’s Holiday Matching Program (TC Jewfolk)
How To Manage The Stress Of Passover Kashrut? (TC Jewfolk)
LGBTQ-affirming articles, rituals, and Torah commentaries (Keshet)
Make A Plan For Passover Preparation (TC Jewfolk)
Parenting By Parsha: Shabbat Pesach (TC Jewfolk)
Passover Articles (Orthodox Union)
Passover Ceremonies, Poems, Songs & more (Ritualwell)
Passover Food Is Weird This Year – How Cost & Availability Is Changing In The TCs (TC Jewfolk)
Passover Source Sheets (Sefaria)
Passover & Sustainability (Hazon)
Passover & Mental Health (Blue Dove Foundation)
Pesach Writing & Videos (The Rabbi Sacks Legacy Trust)
Preparing for Pesach in the Year 5785 (TC Jewfolk)
The Resourceful, Righteous Women Who Helped The Jews From Egypt (TC Jewfolk)
Two Kids, Four Questions: How To Appease Children At The Seder? (TC Jewfolk)
Two Seders, One Spirit: Growing Up Jewish on the Prairie (TC Jewfolk)
What to the Black Jew Is Passover? (Evolve)
What To Do When I Don’t Want To Host Two Seders? (TC Jewfolk)
Haggadot & Haggadah Supplements
Companion to the Haggadah (Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies)
Customize Your Own Haggadah (Haggadot)
Dancing In Between Haggadah (The LUNAR Collective)
The Fifth Child: A Passover Reading (Jewish Democratic Women for Action)
The Four Cups of Consciousness (Shefa)
From Displacement to Rebuilding the World (Nechama)
The Gateways Haggadah (Gateways)
HIAS Haggadah (HIAS)
In Every Generation: A Haggadah Supplement (Shalom Hartman Institute)
Passover Guide / Guia de Passover (Jewtina & Co.)
Global Justice Haggadah (American Jewish World Service)
Hebrew/English Haggadah (Chabad)
In Every Generation: Interactive Family Haggadah (PJ Library)
The Seder’s Call: Moving Beyond the Table (JTS)
Plastover – An Exodus from Plastic Waste (Reboot)
Velveteen Rabbi’s Haggadah for Pesach (Velveteen Rabbi)
The Wandering is Over Haggadah (Jewish Women’s Archive)
Why Is This Night Different? (The iCenter)
Sell Your Chametz
Recipes & Crafts
Almond Macaroons | Andrew Zimmern’s Matzo Ball Soup | Black and White Cookies | Cast-Iron Potato and Carmelized Onion Kugel | Date Charoset | Egyptian Charoset | Flourless Chocolate Cake | Howie Mandell’s Matzo Brei | Light As Air Macaroons | Mexican Charoset & Passover Salsa | Passover Crack(er) | Passover-Friendly Black and White Cookies | Surviving Passover: A College Student’s Guide (TC Jewfolk)
47 Passover Recipes for a Delicious Seder and Beyond (Bon Appetit)
7 Charoset Recipes to Give Passover an International Flair (Be’chol Lashon)
Five Kid Friendly Passover Ideas (TC Jewfolk)
Passover Crafts & Activities (Bible Belt Balabusta)
Passover Crafts & Recipes (Our Happy Tribe)
Passover Food (The Nosher)
Passover Recipes, Crafts, & Inspiration (Rebekah Lowin)
Relish: Vegetarian Passover Seder with Imani Jackson (TPT Originals)
The Omer
We count the Omer for 49 days, starting on the second night of Pesach/Passover and ending with Shavuot. In 2026/5786 the Omer period begins the evening of April 2 and concludes May 21 before sunset.
Lag B’Omer, the 33rd day of the Omer, falls from sundown May 4 – sundown May 5.
About This Holiday
Learn from: Aish (Orthodox) | Chabad (Orthodox) | Exploring Judaism (Conservative) | My Jewish Learning (non-denominational) | Reform Judaism
Events
All events listed at Central Time and are on Zoom if no location is noted. Submit an event here.
Omer Art with Cantor Abrams (Beth El) 10 AM Sundays, April 5 – May 10, 1:30 PM May 17. Studio Inside Out (4827 Minnetonka Blvd, St Louis Park) $150
What Really Happened at Mt. Sinai? (Beth Jacob) 6:30 PM Tuesdays, April 14, 21, 28. Beth Jacob (1179 Victoria Curve, Mendota Heights) $100
Counting the Omer through the Jewish Studio Process (Beth Jacob) 6:30 PM Tuesdays, May 12, 19, & 26. Beth Jacob (1179 Victoria Curve, Mendota Heights) $100
Self-Guided Practices
Immigration Journeys: Counting the Omer 5786 (Temple Israel)
49 Steps (Limmud North America)
My Omer: 49 Steps to Personal Refinement (Meaningful Life Center)
The Omer Workbook: A 49 Day Self-Care Immersion (Gold Herring)
Further Resources & Tools
Lag B’Omer & Sefirat Ha’Omer Source Sheets (Sefaria)
The Omer: What Are We Counting? And Why? (TC Jewfolk)
Omer Ceremonies, Poems, Songs & more (Ritualwell)
What is the Lag BaOmer pilgrimage? (The Conversation)
Writing & Videos on The Omer/Lag B’Omer (The Rabbi Sacks Legacy Trust)
The Israeli Yamim
“The Yamim” (plural of “yom,” or days) are a closely-bunched group of modern spring holidays that fall in the weeks after Passover.
Yom HaShoah — which commemorates approximately six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, and the Jewish resistance in that period — is on 27 Nisan, or sunset April 13 – sunset April 14 in 2026/5786.
Yom HaZikaron — Israel’s official remembrance day, traditionally dedicated to fallen soldiers, also extended to civilian victims of terrorism — is on 4 Iyar, or sunset April 20 – sunset April 21 in 2026/5786.
Yom HaAtzmaut — commemorating the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948 — is on 5 Iyar, corresponding to sunset April 21 – sunset April 22 in 2026/5786.
Yom Yerushalayim — commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem and the establishment of Israeli control over the Old City in the aftermath of the June 1967 Six-Day War — is on 28 Iyar, from sunset May 14 – sunset May 15 in 2026/5786.
About These Holidays
Learn from: Aish (Orthodox) | Exploring Judaism (Conservative) | My Jewish Learning (non-denominational) | Reform Judaism
Events
Events listed at Central Time and are on Zoom if no location is noted. Submit an event here.
Architecture of Light Closing Reception (Minnesota JCC) 2 PM Sunday, April 12. Minnesota JCC Capp Center (1375 St. Paul Ave, St Paul)
Yom HaShoah Special Film Screening: For the Living (Minnesota JCC) 3 PM Sunday, April 12. Minnesota JCC Capp Center (1375 St. Paul Ave, St Paul) $12-14
Minnesota and the Dakotas Yom HaShoah Commemoration (JCRC) 7 PM Monday, April 13. Mount Zion (1300 Summit Ave, St Paul)
Edina Holocaust Remembrance Event (City of Edina) 6:30 PM Tuesday, April 14. Edina Fire Station 2, Parklawn Room (4401 W. 76th St., Edina)
What Did People Talk About in the Warsaw Ghetto? Yiddish Words of the Holocaust (UofM Center for Jewish Studies) 7:30 PM Wednesday, April 15. Minnesota JCC Sabes Center (4330 Cedar Lake Rd S, Minneapolis)
Holocaust Testimony in the Age of AI: History, Memory, and Ethics (U of St Thomas Jay Phillips Center) 12 PM Thursday, April 16. University of St Thomas (2115 Summit Ave, St Paul)
Yom HaZikaron Commemoration: If You Are Reading This… (Minneapolis & St Paul Jewish Federations) 7 PM Monday, April 20. RSVP for location
Taste of Memories (St Paul Jewish Federation) 5 PM Wednesday, April 22. RSVP for location
The Minnesota Hillel Shuk (Minnesota Hillel) 11 AM Friday, April 24. Minnesota Hillel (1521 University Ave SE, Minneapolis)
Israel Shabbat (Minnesota Hillel) 5:15 PM Friday, April 24. Minnesota Hillel (1521 University Ave SE, Minneapolis)
Yom Ha’atzmaut Community Family Celebration (Minnesota JCC) 2 PM Sunday, April 26. RSVP for location
Yom Ha’atzmaut Adult Night with Joel Chasnoff (Minnesota JCC) 7 PM Sunday, April 26. Minnesota JCC Sabes Center (4330 S Cedar Lake Rd, Minneapolis) $25
Violins of Hope Opening Night + Reception (Minnesota JCC) 3 PM Sunday, May 3. Minnesota JCC Sabes Center (4330 S Cedar Lake Rd, Minneapolis)
Yom Yerushalayim Shabbat Service Featuring Violins of Hope (Minnesota JCC) 6 PM Friday, May 15. Adath Jeshurun (10500 Hillside Ln W, Minnetonka)
Breakfast for Israel (JNF) 7:30 AM Thursday, May 22. RSVP for location
Further Resources & Tools
Articles on Yom HaShoah | Yom HaZikaron | Yom HaAtzmaut | Yom Yerushalayim (Orthodox Union)
The Heavy, Sacred Burden of Legacy (TC Jewfolk)
My Child Learned About The Holocaust Before I Was Ready For It (TC Jewfolk)
Ritual Components for Yom HaShoah | Yom HaZikaron | Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Ritualwell)
Writing & Videos on Yom HaShoah | Yom HaZikaron | Yom Ha’atzmaut | Yom Yerushalayim (Rabbi Sacks Legacy Trust)
Articles on Yom Ha-atzmaut (Rabbinical Assembly)
Yom Ha’atzmaut with Children (PJ Library)
Yom HaAtzmaut & Yom Yerushalayim Source Sheets (Sefaria)
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