Passover 2026 / 5786

WashU Hillel Community Seder
Wednesday, April 1 | 7pm | Hillel
Join us for a meaningful Seder with your friends and Hillel Community! RSVP here by 7am Wednesday, 3/18. If you'd like to reserve a table at Seder for your student group, sorority, fraternity, or friend group, please contact us at hillelpassover@gmail.com. 

Do Your Own Seder
Create your own Seder traditions with friends, suitemates, your club or group, or your fraternity or sorority with Hillel's Do Your Own Seder offering!  Sign up to host First Night, Second Night, or another night during Passover. We provide matzah, filled Seder plates, ritual Seder food items, haggadot of your choosing, grape juice, paper goods and utensils, along with your choice of:
     * a kosher, fully catered Passover meal OR
     * an $10 per person subsidy to make your own meal

Catered DYO Seder signup closes Wednesday, March 18 at 7am. Subsidized DYO Seder sign up closes Wednesday, March 25 at 11:59pm. Sign up for either here! Questions? Please reach out to us at hillelpassover@gmail.com.
Instructions for pickup and requirements to receive your meal/subsidy (such as the dates of DYO Question and Info Sessions) can be found on the sign up form, and will be emailed to you after sign up.

Free Passover Meals for Students
Hillel proudly offers Kosher for Passover lunches and dinners throughout the holiday, FREE for all area college students!
     * Lunches: Thursday through Thursday, April 2-9, 11:30am-1:30pm
     * Dinners: Friday through Tuesday, April 3-7, 6-8pm
Menus for each meal listed below.
RSVP here by Wednesday, March 18 at 7am. 

Community Members and Prospective Students
Passover is a special time at WashU Hillel! Community members and prospective students & families are warmly invited to experience the energy and vibrancy of Jewish campus life at WashU over delicious Kosher for Passover meals with our student community! All lunches and dinners are catered by Zelda’s from Skokie, IL. Dine inside or in our beautiful outdoor courtyard.  Hope you and your friends and family can join us! 
For more information and to RSVP by Sunday, 3/22 at 9am, click here.

Menus

4/1 First Night Seder: soup, brisket, roasted potatoes, carrot tzimmes (stuffed eggplant)
DYO Seder: chicken schnitzel, roasted potatoes, seasonal vegetables (eggplant schnitzel)

4/2 Lunch: salmon, quinoa salad, pesto cauliflower, salad bar (vegetarian option*)

4/3 Lunch: chicken marsala, butternut squash souffle, seasonal vegetables (vegetarian option*)
4/3 Shabbat Dinner: soup, honey apricot chicken, roasted potatoes, Moroccan spice carrots (vegetarian option*)

4/4 Lunch: chicken piccata, roasted cauliflower and sweet onion kugel, carrot tzimmes (vegetarian option*)
4/4 Dinner: brisket, old-fashioned potato kugel, herb roasted pesto cauliflower (vegetarian option*)

4/5 Lunch: home-made matzah brei, roasted cauliflower and sweet onion kugel
4/5 Dinner: chicken schnitzel, butternut squash souffle, roasted vegetables (eggplant schnitzel)

4/6 Lunch: brisket, roasted potatoes, carrot tzimmes (vegetarian option*)
4/6 Dinner: salmon, quinoa salad, herb roasted cauliflower, salad bar (vegetarian option*)

4/7 Lunch: chicken marsala, roasted cauliflower and sweet onion kugel, rainbow carrots (vegetarian option*)
4/7 Dinner: chicken piccata, potato kugel, carrot tzimmes (vegetarian option*)

4/8 Lunch: chicken schnitzel, butternut squash souffle, seasonal vegetables, salad bar (eggplant schnitzel)

4/9 Lunch: honey apricot chicken, roasted potatoes, carrot tzimmes (vegetarian option*)

*vegetarian menu TBD