Passover
Please find on this page information on services for Passover, 2024.
Celebrate Passover with Hillel at Stanford!
We have a variety of ways for you to celebrate the holiday, including community seders on the first and second night, seder plates to help host your own experience, and more. All our events are free and open to all students.
Celebrate Passover with Chabad at Stanford
We offer a warm, interactive Passover Seder that is family style, English friendly, and alive with humor and insights. Enjoy fine wines, an elegant dinner, and crispy hand-made Matzot. Celebrate the Holiday of Freedom at a Seder experience you will remember for a lifetime!
Passover at Hillel: List of Services
Stanford Seder
Monday, April 22, 7:00 - 9:30 pm
Celebrate our freedom with a large communal first night seder at Hillel, with delicious kosher dinner, amplified live music, lively table discussions, and lots of Passover traditions.
Seder After Dark
Tuesday, April 23, 7:30 - 10:00 pm
Delve deeper into Passover traditions, songs, and questions with this second night seder.
Traditional halachic seders
(Monday and Tuesday): Time will be determined by seder leaders and will take place on or near campus.
Hillel Open House
Friday, April 26, 3:00 - 5:00 pm, Taube Hillel House front lawn (565 Mayfield Ave)
For admitted students and their families! Welcome to Stanford! We are so excited you'll be joining us for Passover. Stanford has committed to providing Kosher for Passover food for visiting admits and their families. If you have any questions about Jewish life at Stanford or Passover/Shabbat needs while you're visiting, please reach out to hillelatstanford@stanford.edu.
Passover Shabbat
Friday April 26, 6:00 pm - Services, 7:00 pm - Dinner
Prince of Egypt movie watch party!
Thursday, April 25, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Join us for this annual sing-a-long and study break, plus Kosher for Passover snacks!
RSVP Here for all Passover and admit weekend meals and events!
Eating Kosher for Passover at Hillel
In partnership with Stanford Dining, there will be kosher for Passover meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner served out of Hillel throughout the entire holiday, so stop by and enjoy a meal with us! All our events are free and open to all students.
If you have questions about kosher dining at Stanford, contact Leah Newman.
About Seders:
Every year, Jewish people tell and re-tell the miraculous story of the enslaved Israelites exodus from Egypt during a festive meal called a Seder (Say-der). In Hebrew, Seder means order. In other words, a Seder is a structured, home-based ritual that combines a series of choreographed rituals with education, food, singing and storytelling, all in a particular order of stage directions, intentionally designed to engage people of all ages, Seders are held on the first and second night of Passover.