It’s spring in Bushwick. For many of us that means shoving our winter coats so far under our beds that we forget they exist or it means waiting for the day immediately following Easter so we can buy discounted creme-filled chocolate eggs to gorge on despite not entirely being sure what said “creme” consists of.

For some of us this also means preparing for Passover. The Jewish spring holiday is famous for its themes of renewal, freedom, and its dinner party service that includes a minimum of four glasses of wine before you eat, and its one week ban on the consumption of bread or leavened products, encouraging instead the flat, cracker bread called matzo, ever-so-temptingly dubbed “the bread of affliction.” Passover 2019 will begin in the evening of Friday, April 19 and ends in the evening of Saturday, April 27.

“We all celebrate Passover differently,” Rabbi Menachem Heller of the Chabad of East Williamsburg said. “There are as many ways to celebrate Passover as there are homes.”