Guests dine on matzoh, gefilte fish, eggs, soup and other symbolic and traditional seder and Passover foods.

Chapter Leader Farrah Alexander (center) of PS 290 in Manhattan spoons horseradish — a symbol of the bitterness of slavery — onto matzoh for UFT staffer Raphael Tomkin. UFT retiree Melvin Greenspan (left) is Alexander’s father.

Yona Adika (left), an occupational therapist at the Academy for Software Engineering, Washington Irving Campus, and teacher Amanda Dutton, the chapter leader at PS 134 in Manhattan, follow the Haggadah program.

Josie Levine, chair of the ESL/Bilingual Committee and an original member of the UFT Jewish Heritage Committee, holds up her timbrel as she speaks of Miriam the prophetess, who led other women as they danced, sang and praised God during the exodus from Egypt.

Dipping celery in salt water, one of the rituals of the Passover seder, are (from left) Lynn Chamberlin, a speech language pathologist at PS 513 in Manhattan; Teri Buch, a special education teacher at PS 226 in Manhattan; and retiree Angela Nahas, who was a payroll secretary at PS 226.

English teacher Marissa Garcia (left), the chapter leader at New Utrecht HS in Brooklyn, and Mindy Rosier, a UFT Teacher Center field liaison, take a selfie wearing yarmulkes they decorated with puffy paint.

As the youngest child at the event, 9-year-old Rebecca Goldberg asks the four questions about why the night of the seder is different from all others as Jason Goldberg, her father and the new chair of the UFT Jewish Heritage Committee, holds the microphone.

Retired teacher Karen Makower “spills the wine” by dipping her finger in the liquid and placing drops of it on her plate as she and others recall the 10 plagues that befell the Egyptian people. They repeat the process as they call out the 10 modern plagues.

Guests dine on matzoh, gefilte fish, eggs, soup and other symbolic and traditional seder and Passover foods.

Chapter Leader Farrah Alexander (center) of PS 290 in Manhattan spoons horseradish — a symbol of the bitterness of slavery — onto matzoh for UFT staffer Raphael Tomkin. UFT retiree Melvin Greenspan (left) is Alexander’s father.

Yona Adika (left), an occupational therapist at the Academy for Software Engineering, Washington Irving Campus, and teacher Amanda Dutton, the chapter leader at PS 134 in Manhattan, follow the Haggadah program.

Josie Levine, chair of the ESL/Bilingual Committee and an original member of the UFT Jewish Heritage Committee, holds up her timbrel as she speaks of Miriam the prophetess, who led other women as they danced, sang and praised God during the exodus from Egypt.

Dipping celery in salt water, one of the rituals of the Passover seder, are (from left) Lynn Chamberlin, a speech language pathologist at PS 513 in Manhattan; Teri Buch, a special education teacher at PS 226 in Manhattan; and retiree Angela Nahas, who was a payroll secretary at PS 226.