Reciprocity and Mutuality: Crossing the Sea Together
Kehilla's In Person Community Seder 5783 / 2023
Saturday April 8 @ 4:45pm
Location: Kehilla Social Hall at 1300 Grand Avenue in Oakland, California
Registration has been extended but we WILL sell out so get your tickets now!
Join us for an in-person Passover Community Seder continuing to explore the High Holy Day themes of reciprocity and mutuality. We will re-enter the Exodus story through Ashkenazi and Sephardi song, food and ritual. Co-led by Rabbi SAM Luckey, Hazzan Shulamit Wise Fairman, and Oreget Adamah (Earth Weaver) Wren Ganin-Pinto, with a special teaching by our beloved Dee Ward, Kehilla Office Administer and long time member of First African Methodist Episcopal Church. The evening features a mesmerizing Sephardic-inspired and mainly vegan seder meal with fish and gluten-free options, catered by chef Jesse Bloom's Sacred Kitchen SF.
COVID SafetyWe are following Kehilla's Public Health Protocols (read them here). This event is indoors in a ventilated room and mask-optional. Additionally, all attendees must take a COVID-19 rapid antigen test within 2 hours of arriving. If you test positive or exhibit ANY symptoms of potential contagious illness, please stay home (you'll be missed!).
Volunteer OptionVolunteers make this community seder possible and receive a discounted ticket price. If you select a volunteer option, you MUST be available to arrive at Kehilla at 3:00pm on April 8, the day of the seder, for (fun!) set-up and registration tasks in the social hall. General volunteers can register below.
There is additionally one Avodah role available which comes with a full seder ticket, for someone interested in helping coordinate other volunteers from 1:30pm - 5pm on the day of the seder. If interested, please reach out to [email protected].
AccessibilityThe Kehilla Social Hall is wheelchair-accessible from the Grand Avenue entrance, at the door behind the bus stop, and there is disabled parking in the Kehilla parking lot. We ask all attendees to adhere to our no-scent policy. If you have other access needs, please share them in your registration below. Zero-gravity chairs are available upon request. Write to [email protected] with other access questions.
No One Turned Away for Lack of FundsWe want to make sure that the Seder is accessible regardless of financial or volunteer availability. Please email [email protected] with the amount you'd like to pay in order to receive a discount code and instructions to complete your registration.
Are you trying to register for our virtual seder?This ticket page is for our in-person seder only. Click here to register for the virtual seder on Thursday, April 6.
MUST be available and present at Kehilla Social Hall from 3pm on day of the seder.
Children 4 and under are free.
Passover Access Fund
We invite you to donate $5-$10 to the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund to help fund the financial assistance we offer folks who would like to attend but cannot afford the full ticket price:
Accessibility
If you are registering on or after Monday April 3, please also email [email protected] with details on your accessibility needs (in addition to the field below).
Seder
We will serve fish, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options and will provide ingredient lists for each dish. If you have dietary needs beyond these options, please plan to supplement with food brought from home.
If you have severe food allergies and are registering on or after Monday April 3, please also email [email protected] to let us know directly so we can inform the catering team ASAP.
IMPORTANT: After you register, you will be shown a link to a Google form to let us know your group's meal preference (i.e. vegan, vegetarian, fish, etc.). We will also send a link to the Google form in the ticket confirmation email. Please submit that form as soon as possible. Thank you!
