Passover Events You Don't Want to Pass Over

Grab some unleaven bread and make the most of the events around town celebrating the holiday

Ah, Passover, with its four questions, matzoh and enough Manischewitz to get you through it all. Instead of schlepping up to Boca to sit on Bubbie’s plastic-covered couch while your nieces and nephews race around looking for the afikoman, try out some of these Passover parties happening around town. Just be sure to leave the door open for Elijah.


PLUNGE INTO PASSOVER: You’ve been good all week, avoiding leven bread like the plague, talking about plagues, unearthing the sedar plate. Give yourself a Passover treat—and we’re not talking about matzoh-smores. Plunge at the Gansevoort South is hosting Passover Ladies Nite tonight with free admission all night. Go, you might even meet a nice Jewish boy to bring home to Ma.

GET YOUR FILL OF FREE GELFITE: What’s better than Passover brunch? Free Passover brunch, that’s what. The Catalina offers up a kinda-sorta free brunch. All you have to do is spring for a room at the hotel. For only $135 a night, renting a room at the Art Deco gem may be even cheaper than taking your whole tribe out to eat. The kosher gratis meal consists of matzo omelets, latkes, fruit and more.  

THE ART OF PASSOVER: The Open Tent brings a little artistic twist to Passover with Seder as Art. The exhibit, which runs Saturday, April 11 from 7 to 10 p.m., features artists reinterpreting Passover traditions. Will there be statues made of gefilte fish and kugel? Well, you’ll just have to wait and see, now won’t you.

A RARE OCCASION: Give your mom the best Passover gift ever: Go out to eat. Rare Steakhouse in Miami Beach is setting up as a Seder central for Passover 2009. The kosher establishment invites you to nosh on traditional foods for both lunch and dinner for all eight days of Passover. Cleaning up after Seder just got easier. Let Rare Steakhouse do it for you.

HIP-HOP GOES KOSHER: Probably the most famous rapper throwing it down Old Testament-style, Matisyahu makes an appearance at LIV’s Matzah Mayhem April 12. Head over to the Fontainebleau at 10 p.m. to hear songs from his new album, “Light.” The mix of reggae, hip-hop and Judaism is enough to make you plotz. 

MATZOH GOES MEXICAN: Add a little ole to your oy vey when Rosa Mexicana dishes up its Mexican Passover menu. From April 8 though 11 you can feast on Mexican Matzoh Ball Soup and Tropical Haroset from Chef David Sloan, who will give a Mexican Passover dish demonstration on Saturday. The event is free if you donate a box of matzoh. Mazel tov, Mexico!   

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