Passover 2024

Celebrate Passover with The Grad Network and join us for an evening of food, storytelling, questions, and community. The Grad Network Passover Seder will begin 7:15 p.m. Monday, April 22 at The Kraft Center, located at 606 West 115th Street. 

Register here to reserve your seat!

Columbia students are welcome to register one guest for Passover Seder. Please note that all guests must enter the building with a Columbia student and complete The Kraft Center visitor form prior to attending the meal.

Cost should not be a barrier to participate. If you are unable to pay and would like to attend any of The Grad Network experiences, please email Melissa.

This meal is generously subsidized by The Columbia/Barnard Hillel Annual Fund.

The Grad Network Passover Pop-Up Food Pantry is open to all graduate students at Columbia University and Teachers College with the intention of making kosher for Passover food more accessible for those celebrating Passover. If a gift of Kosher for Passover groceries will make it easier for you to observe the holiday this year, you are welcome to come fill a bag! 

The Passover Pop-Up Food Pantry will be open from 4-8 p.m. on Thursday, April 18. The food pantry will include packaged Kosher for Passover food, as well as fresh produce.

We are thrilled to be able to supplement Kosher for Passover meals for graduate students. This initiative is made possible by the Columbia/Barnard Hillel Annual Fund.

To help us properly stock the Passover Pop-Up Food Pantry, please register below.

**We cannot guarantee every grocery item will meet your dietary needs, but aim to have a selection so that people receive the food they need.

No-Cost Kosher For Passover Lunch

Passover lunch will be available on Revson Plaza between 12-2 p.m. on Thursday, April 25.

All graduate students are welcome to enjoy Passover lunch at no-cost. Feel free to drop by or stay to hang out.

This meal is generously subsidized by The Columbia/Barnard Hillel Annual Fund.

The Grad Network Shabbat Dinner (Passover Edition)

End the week with The Grad Network! Dinner will be served at the Kraft Center, located at 606 West 115th Street. Advanced registration required to reserve your seat.

RSVP to attend. Cost should not be a barrier to participate. If you are unable to pay and would like to attend any of the experiences offered, please email Melissa.

This meal is generously subsidized by The Columbia/Barnard Hillel Annual Fund.

OneTable is Nourishing Seders April 22-23 + Shabbat April 26

OneTable wants to help fund your Seder! Hosts can receive nourishment ($10/person, up to $100 per dinner) for one Seder (first or second night — your choice) and for Passover Shabbat.

The deadline to post your Seder is April 16.

Sharing Stories of Hope – Rodeph Sholom Passover Seder
6 p.m. | April 22 | Online

Join Rodeph Sholom in celebrating Passover with CRS’s Online Seder! They’ll provide the Haggadah on their screens as everyone sings, discusses, and tastes their way through the seder experience together. Intended for families and adults, this virtual format will encourage both table talk and chat box sharing, with accompanying songs and discussion materials for those wanting additional elements of meaning.

The seder will be led by Senior Rabbi Ben Spratt and Senior Cantor Shayna De Lowe

92NY Community Passover Seder
5 p.m. | April 23 | Buttenwieser Hall at The Arnhold Center

Join the 92NY for a joyful celebration filled with singing, interactive storytelling, delicious food & wine, and best of all … no cooking or cleaning up!

Whether you’re bringing the whole extended family or flying solo this year; a Passover expert or a Passover newbie, we’d love to have you at our table. Join for a Passover like you’ve never experienced before, surrounded by community!

The community seder with be led by Rebecca Schoffer, 92NY Director of Jewish Family Life

Ansche Chesed Commuity 2nd Seder
6:30 p.m. | Tuesday, April 23 | Ansche Chesed Hirsch Hall

The Ansche Chesed Community Seder will be led by our clergy Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky, Rabbi Yael Hammerman, and Hazzan Natasha Hirschhorn.

Help us fill Hirsch Hall with ruach, friendship, stories and song!

"Let all who are hungry come and eat." -- The seder is open to Ansche Chesed members and non-members, adults and children.

Park Avenue Synagogue Passover Seder
6:30 p.m. | April 23 | 50 E 87th St

At this family-friendly and festive Passover Seder, welcome the holiday with the Park Avenue Synagogue congregational family. The seder is open to non-synagogue members, as well.

Space is limited so reserve your spot early.

Out of the Narrow Place: B’nai Jeshurun Community Seder
7:30 p.m. | April 23 | B’nai Jeshurun Sanctuary

Let us come together in song, ritual, and celebration as we reenact the Passover story and think about how we can move from narrowness to the great expanse in our own lifetimes. Connect with the community as we journey through this seder led by Rabbi Sammy Kanter, and enhanced by BJ’s team of musicians. All are welcome.

BJ’s Community Seder includes a full Pesah meal, elegantly provided by a Kosher caterer.

Fort Tryon Jewish Center Second Night Community Passover Seder
8 p.m. | April 23 | 729 W 181st St

Celebrate with community! FTJC and the Y of Washington Heights & Inwood are cosponsoring a joyful seder led by FTJC's Rabbi Guy Austrian, full of discussion, song, learning, and drama.

Children are warmly welcome to stay as late as they can and can play in a play corner with books and toys provided. 

Dinner by a certified kosher caterer, with meat and vegetarian options, with no kitniyot.

Kehillat Harlem Passover Seders
8:30 p.m. | April 22 & 23| Location to be shared

All are welcome to attend. Please reach out directly to Kehillat Harlem to RSVP.

Manhattan Jewish Experience Social Seder
8:30 p.m. | Tuesday, April 23 | MJE West- 131 W. 86th Street

Join MJE and Aaron and Leora Blustein for an incredible fun-filled second night seder with 100+ YJPs in the heart of the upper west side. Open bar. Catered dinner. Buffet Desserts. Explanatory Seder.

MJE programming is only for Jewish young professionals and graduate students ages 21-39.