Passover (Pesach) begins at sundown on Wednesday, April 1 when the First Seder supper takes place, followed by a Second Seder the next night on April 2nd in the Diaspora.The holiday ends at nightfall on Thursday, April 9 …
The timing of Passover is determined by the Hebrew lunar calendar and coincides with the first full moon after the spring equinox. Because a lunar year is shorter than the solar year used by the Gregorian calendar, the holiday appears to always "drift" between late March and mid-April year after year.
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To learn more about the history of Passover from a uniquely inclusive perspective, you should you 📺 CHECK OUT my friend MICHAEL in the NEW four-part PBS series: “Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History 👀 tracing the rich, complex relationship between Black and Jewish Americans. Michael is both Black AND Jewish (and part of the LGBTQIA+ community with other interesting intersectionalities including brilliance from which he shares wisdom on the regular so he’s a wonderful teacher to learn from.
And on the FOOD FRONT:
Since it was filmed on location in my city — NYC — you know yours truly got recruited along with a shortlist of Michael’s other awesome chosen fam and friends to help prepare that amazing meal you’ll see in the scene where folks sit down to break bread together as the food-focused episode culminates. No surprise: I was all up in the mix behind the scenes slicing, dicing… — but before i could do ANY a that, we had all kindsa pots of water coming to rolling boils so that i could FIRST go about the kashering process of (carefully) pouring boiling water over surface areas and such... But that was NOT my first Seder meal prep assistance ‘rodeo ‘ , no sir … in fact i’m feeling like a pro at this point — more on that in due time for any of my Patreon peeps who want that inside scoop.
Let’s just say that by the time the food prep work was done and we were able to relax, and EAT — i was oh so glad i’d also made sure to show up with some upscale kosher wines for “The Help” (myself, et. al) to enjoy with our off camera meals celebrating the holiday … if ya’ll tune in lemme know if you see my name when the credits roll : Tonya Hopkins aka The Food Griot — “TFG” — yup that’d be me!…
Ok, I’m staying tuned….
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