Passover

Useful resources and forms:

Rabbinical Assembly Passover Guide

Pesach Product List 2025/5785

Hametz Sale Form 2025/5785

How Does Shabbat Affect Our Passover Observance?
The hametz will be out of your possession from 11:45 a.m. on April 11nd until 8:30 p.m. on April 20th.

Passover 2025/5785 Schedule at Temple Israel

Thursday, April 10th
7:00 a.m.: Service and Siyyum for the firstborn
7:45 a.m.: Breakfast sponsored by Mahin Shahnaz Ohebsion and Jack Sassouni in loving memory of Eli Sassouni
Search for hametz this evening setting aside hametz to use through Shabbat morning.

Friday, April 11th
7:30 a.m.: Weekday morning service
11:45 a.m.: All hametz is destroyed or is owned by a non-Jew  Click here for the Hametz Sale Form.
6:30 p.m.: Shabbat evening service

Saturday, April 12th – Erev Passover
9:15 a.m.: Shabbat morning service
No hametz after 10:40 a.m.
7:15 p.m.: Shabbat Mincha followed by Festival Ma’ariv

Sunday, April 13th – First Day of Passover
9:15 a.m.: Festival morning service
7:20 p.m.: Festival Mincha followed by evening service
8:00 p.m.: In person Communal Seder  CLICK HERE TO RSVP.

Monday, April 14th – Second Day of Passover
9:15 a.m.: Festival morning service
7:25 p.m.: Festival Mincha, Ma’ariv and Havdalah

Tuesday, April 15th – Hol Hamoed
7:30 a.m.: Hol Hamoed morning service
8:00 p.m.: Ma’ariv

Wednesday, April 16th – Hol Hamoed
7:30 a.m.: Hol Hamoed morning service
8:00 p.m.: Ma’ariv

Thursday, April 17th – Hol Hamoed
7:30 a.m.: Hol Hamoed morning service
8:00 p.m.: Ma’ariv

Friday, April 18th – Hol Hamoed
7:30 a.m.: Hol Hamoed Morning service
6:30 p.m.: Shabbat and Festival Ma’ariv

Saturday, April 19th – Seventh Day of Passover
9:15 a.m.: Festival and Shabbat Morning service
7:30 p.m.: Festival Mincha and Ma’ariv

Sunday, April 20th – Eighth Day of Passover
9:15 a.m.: Festival Morning service including plaque dedication and Yizkor
7:35 p.m.: Festival Mincha, Ma’ariv and Havdallah
8:15 p.m.: End of holiday
8:30 p.m.: Hametz back in possession

To learn more about Passover, click here.