Seder Companions & Guides
Dwelling Place http://www.hsdm.com/usr/dwelling_place/peisah/ Interactive online games and materials about Seder for kids.
The Family Haggadah http://www.haggadah.btinternet.co.uk/screen.htm 9 screen shots of how to make your own Haggadah, using excerpts and contents page, in English, with 6 excerpts from the Haggadah
This Growing Haggadah http://www.davka.org/what/haggadah/index.html Marks the 14 traditional parts of the Seder, but with contemporary and general commentary and without the intermediate texts; all in English
Elimelech David Halevi http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/passover/ or http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/passover/passoverseder.html Family and leader's guide to Pesach, Seder, different customs (also French)
JTSA http://learn.jtsa.edu/passover/seder/ Leading the Seder: 5 files and a bibliography on how to do each main step of the Seder (with transliteration and vocalised blessings), but not the full text; interesting questions and family activities; additional links in "Together". http://www.passoversite.org/ Gallery of 100 rare illuminated Haggadah texts with descriptions; question guide & historical index suitable for educators and adult education.
My Jewish Learning http://www.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/Passover.htm Total Pesach companion
Rabbi Lawrence Rigal http://www.rigal.freeserve.co.uk/jewish/seder/seder.htm Walk through the Seder
David Rosenthal http://drosenthal.org/teshuvot/pesach.pdf How to lead a Seder and other issues [Conservative]
Torah Org (Project Genesis) http://torah.org/learning/yomtov/pesach/ Articles, analysis, thought
Virtual Jerusalem http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/jewish_holidays/pesach/khag.htm Haggadah & guide for kids.
For more Seder Guides with full text Haggadot, please see our Online Haggadah collection!
The Seder Plate & Related Customs
Aish Hatorah http://www.aish.com/passinsight/passinsightdefault/Seder_Plate_-_15_Steps.asp Clear, brief explanation Dwelling Place http://www.hsdm.com/usr/dwelling_place/peisah/kiara_game/kiara_game.html Interactive Seder plate game
Jewish San Francisco http://www.jewishsf.com/bk000414/uspesachseder.shtml Interesting details of Sephardi customs with the zero'a, beitzah...
Judaism About http://judaism.about.com/library/3_howto/ht_sederplate.htm Maror is only given as horseradish here, but many actually use lettuce; no graphics
Neveh Yerushalayim http://www.neveh.org/pesach/pesblm1.html Order of the Seder Plate in charts; all the Mishnah details for the vegetables, lots of poskim, analysis of different vegetables and poskim for different communities. Lots more about the lettuce and the sources! Rabbi Lawrence Rigal http://www.rigal.freeserve.co.uk/jewish/seder/seder.htm Well-charted and numbered items with explanations behind the titles, mentions N. African custom of spring onions for karpas, inter alia
Yemenite Traditions
Bar Ilan University http://www.biu.ac.il/JH/Parasha/eng/pesah/gav.html Yemenite traditions, mainly following the Rambam; footnotes
Chayas http://www.chayas.com/pesahcont.htm Pesach in Sa'ana'
Shema Yisrael http://chareidi.shemayisrael.com/archives5759/tzav/features2.htm Yemenite karpas, maror
University of Toronto, Women's Studies & Judaism http://www.utoronto.ca/wjudaism/contemporary/articles/negotiating_passover.htm#TheYemenite Yemenite women and customs; dukah, halek and charoset; mentions only walnuts, not almonds - which are a Talmudic reference.
Melodies & Variations from Different Jewish Communities
Ladino Melodies http://www.geocities.com/Paris/6256/ladino.htm Includes lyrics and tunes for Pesach, especially Echad Mi Yodea; Moroccan tradition.
Midrash Ben Ish Hai http://www.midrash.org/halakha/pesah.html Sephardi-Iraqi transliteration of a few popular Haggadah features and Sharh dialect version of Ha Lachma Anya.
Piyut [Avi Chai Foundation/Snunit/academic & community partners] http://www.piyut.org.il/cgi-bin/search.pl?lang=en&YearCicle=9&Tradition=&RulerComponents=yearcycles [English interface] http://www.piyut.org.il/cgi-bin/search.pl?lang=&YearCicle=9&Tradition=&RulerComponents=yearcycles [Hebrew interface] 33 Popular Seder songs from , Yemenite, Italian, Ashkenazi and the range of Sephardi communities, as well as Israel, Chabad &c.
613 http://www.613.org/music/pizmon/piz.html Some Syrian Jewish pizmonim (melodies) for Pesach
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