Happy Passover from UTJ (5785/2025)

Dear Friends of UTJ,

UTJ wishes everyone a happy, healthy, and Kosher Passover.

We are happy to share with you that as always Rabbi Jeffrey Rappoport, editor of The Kosher Nexus has been hard at work providing updated Passover guidance for this year. New or updated this year are:

• The Kosher For Passover Kosher Nexus Newsletter with helpful tips for preparing and kashering for Passover including information on some products that do not require Passover certification.
• Passover FAQ
• Kosher Myths And Facts Pertaining To Passover
• Passover recipes galore including:
  • Meat Potato Latkes for Pesach
  • Charoset London Broil
  • Fudge Chocolate Walnut Cookies for Passover
  • Raisin Farfel Kugel
  • and more!

Other popular past posts include

• Translation Of The Peanut Teshuva (R. Moshe Feinstein’s teshuvah)
• Passover Seder Songs In Transliteration
• Our stance on Kitniyot

For all Passover-related Kosher nexus posts, including all recipes posts see https://www.koshernexus.org/holidays/passover/

In addition to Passover related content on our Kosher Nexus website, please visit the UTJ Viewpoints website where you can find many articles and videos on Passover. There are many ways to explore the content of UTJ Viewpoints including going to the “Passover” section found under “Holidays” or searching for “Passover or other key words. Here is a selection of UTJ Viewpoints items related to Passover:

• Haggadat Uvalaylah Shiro Immi (And At Night May His Song Be With Me) by Rabbi Steven Golden in close collaboration with our teacher Rabbi Isaac S.D. Sassoon.
• Seder Thoughts by Rabbi Alan J. Yuter.
• (Video) The Taboo Against “Next Year in Jerusalem” in the American Haggadah with Professor Jonathan D. Sarna
• The Night of the Watch, A Modern Midrash by Rabbi Moshe P. Weisblum
• What Does the Word Pesach (פסח) Mean? Rabbi Noah Gradofsky
• Four Questions Every Feminist Should Ask Herself At The Passover Seder by Dr. Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
• May China Be Kashered, a responsum of the UTJ Panel of Halakhic Inquriy
• HaChodesh – Those Were the Days by Rabbi Jeffrey Miller
• (Video) UTJ Rabbis Share Divrei Torah as Passover Approaches (5781/2021)

Please Support UTJ’s Mission

As always, UTJ can only bring you these important resources – our perspective on Torah and Halakhah rooted in classical religious sources and informed by modern scholarship – with your generous support. Please make your Passover donation to UTJ and/or join UTJ for 5785 if you haven’t already done so at http://www.utj.org/join-utj-donate.

Once again, we offer you our best wishes for a happy, healthy, and safe Passover.

b’Shalom,

The Union For Traditional Judaism
Rabbi David Novak, President
Rabbi Gerald Sussman, Executive Vice President
Rabbi Andrew Schultz, Executive Administrator