Mark Your Calendars for Etz Chaim’s 2nd Night Zoom Seder!

Sunday March 28 at 6:00 PM, Zoom room opens at 5:30 PM.

Our Passover Zoom seder is open to all members (and feel free to invite your extended family, even if they are non-members.)

The Sisterhood will be collecting all of your chametz for their Passover Food Drive.

Traditionally, during Passover, one cannot hold chametz (leavened food products) inside a Jewish household. But what happens during Passover in Israel when there is food on the shelves of the grocery store? Enter, the legal fiction, or ‘trick’ that Israel uses to get around this issue.  They ‘sell’ all of its leavened products to Palestinian citizen, Hussein Jabar. This symbolic ‘purchase’ mutually helps both communities. Every year, Mr. Jabar gives the Prime Minister a check as a down payment for millions of dollars worth of food. He ‘owns’ that food for one week, and then at the end of Passover, he ‘returns’ the food and the check is returned to him. In this way, Israelis don’t have to actually rid their stores and bakeries of leavening.

To honor the tradition of ‘selling’ chametz to the Muslim community, the Sisterhood is holding a food drive and its proceeds will benefit the Islamic Center.