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Celebrating Passover: Making Your Seder Meaningful  
Article Wandering the Wilderness in the Sunshine of Sedona
Reflections from Sedona as We Prepare for Pesach OR Oy, Why Did We Have to Wander for Forty Years?
Document Ancient Rituals, Contemporary Perspectives on Passover (DOC 33.28 KB)
Enjoy these new-old rituals which will enhance your Passover Seder experience
Article Can We Eat Beans, Rice, Corn and Peas on Passover?
A contemporary rabbinic answer, based on Jewish law, which allows the eating of these "kitniyot."
Document Creative Ideas for Your Passover Seder Table, 2004 (DOC 32.77 KB)
Make your seder engaging and meaningful this year!
Document For the Adult Seder: 4 Ideas from the Rabbi's Tisch (Table) (DOC 30.72 KB)
Article Make it a Multi-Media, Multi-Sensory, Musical Seder Experience
Rabbi Kipnes' 8 Ways to Make Your Family Seder Engaging
Document Or Ami Passover Booklet (DOC 1.02 MB)
Almost everything you wanted to know about Passover: Preparing for Passover, Hunting for Hametz, How to make your Seder meaningful, How to capture the attention of the kids,The Story of Passover in 6 (short) Scenes, For the Adult Seder: Four Ideas from the Rabbi’s Tisch (table)
Document Passover Songsheet (DOC 54.27 KB)
New and old Passover favorites to sing at your Seder table.
Document Seder in the Wilderness 6 Information Letter (DOC 99.33 KB)
Every thing you need to know if you are joining our Seder in the Wilderness
Document Shake Up Your Seder - New Ideas for Passover (PDF 133.09 KB)
Learn how to make a fun Seder using these new ideas!
Celebrating Chanukah: Increase the Light While Deepening the Meaning  
8 Candles, 8 Rituals: Expanding Your Hanukkah Repertoire (DOC 37.89 KB)
Eight wonderful ways to make Hanukkah even more meaningful.
8 Ways to Turn Chanukah into a Festival of Giving
8 Ways to Turn Chanukah into a Festival of Giving (DOC 144.38 KB)
In addition to giving gifts, why not make each night a night for helping others!
Chanukah as a Second Sukkot, the True Story of Chanukah (DOC 37.89 KB)
The miracle of oil teaches an important lesson. But Chanukah may have originally been celebrated with lulav and etrog!
Chanukah Songsheet by Cantor Cotler (DOC 165.89 KB)
Download this songsheet, print up copies, and sing your way through the eight nights of Chanukah.
Keeping Jewish Eyes Focused During the "Holiday Season" (DOC 31.74 KB)
Rabbi Kipnes offers suggestions for how to deal with the unique stresses of being Jewish (or part of an interfaith family) during December.
Making Thanksgiving Spiritually Meaningful  
Document 10 Ideas for Making Thanksgiving Spiritually Meaningful (DOC 94.72 KB)
From blessings, to Shehecheyanu moments, to yahrzeit candles to learning, Thanksgiving can be a time of Jewish spiritual inspiration.
Document Blessings for Your Thanksgiving Table (DOC 92.16 KB)
From Traditional Brachot (blessings) to Navajo words to official proclamations.
High Holy Days at Or Ami  
Document High Holy Days Divray Or Ami (PDF 2.57 MB)
This issue of Divray Or Ami is dedicated to all of the events connected with our High Holy Day Services.
Document These High Holy Days Don't Sweat the Small Stuff by Rabbi Kipnes and Michelle November (DOC 321.54 KB)
Our prayerbooks ask “who shall live and who shall die in the coming year?” Many of us are more concerned with how to make it through this hectic Holy Day season! Where is the payoff for the energy we exert and the exhaustion we endure?
Celebrating Sukkot and Simchat Torah  
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Celebrating Purim  
Article Cantor Cotler's Purim Rap
A creative retelling of the Purim story, written as a "rap song"
Document Megillat Esther: The Story of Purim (DOC 31.74 KB)
A family-friendly play about Purim, Queen Esther and Mordechai.

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