Consult with your Rabbi, check Synagogue Bulletins and/or the Va'ad Website to find and confirm times according to your minhag.

1.  Bedikat Chametz (The Search for Chametz) and Biur Chametz (Nullification): Thursday, April 17, 2008:

A final search for Chametz is conducted after nightfall (around 8:48 p.m. this year). Customarily, 10 pieces of bread are placed in various rooms of the house and the search is conducted by candlelight using a feather and/or wooden spoon to gather the Chametz. Prior to beginning the search, we recite the B’racha (blessing): “al bi’ur Chametz”.

This year, we burn the Chametz on Friday. However, if a person intends to continue eating Chametz until Shabbat morning, he should not say the “Bitul” (annulment) of the Chametz (the paragraph following the b’racha noted above) until Shabbat morning.  More info

2. Ta’anit B'chorim(ot) - Fast Of The First Born : Thursday, April 17, 2008:

Ta’anit B’chorim, Fast of First Born Sons, commemorates their deliverance from death during the tenth plague in Egypt. It is customary for first-born sons to participate in the meal served in celebration of a mitzvah, such as a Brit Mila (circumcision) or Siyum (the completion of a tractate of the Talmud). Those attending these events on the eve of Passover celebrate with the partaking of refreshments and are then exempt from this fast.

3.  Kashering may be done all day Friday until candlelighting. Both BCMH and SBH will provide koshering facilities this year. Please check with them for available times.

?. Last Time For Burning Chametz: Friday, April 18, 2008:

Magen Avraham 10:25 a.m. (Minhag of most Seattle Sephardim)
GR”A/GRA”Z 10:49 a.m. (Minhag of most Ashkenazim and the Chabad Community).

ALL CHAMETZ THAT REMAINS IN YOUR POSSESSION AFTER THE BURNING (FOR CONSUMPTION THROUGH SHABBAT MORNING) SHOULD BE CAREFULLY SEGREGATED. PLEASE DISCUSS ANY SPECIFICS WITH YOUR RABBI.

4.  Last Time For Eating Chametz: Saturday, April 19, 2008:

Magen Avraham 10:25 a.m. (Minhag of most Seattle Sephardim)
GR”A/GRA”Z 10:49 a.m. (Minhag of most Ashkenazim and the Chabad Community).

5.  Last time for Annulling Chametz (declaring it no longer in your possession): Saturday, April 19, 2008:

Magen Avraham: 11:46 a.m. (Minhag of most Seattle Sephardim)
GR”A/GRA”Z: 11:58 p.m.. (Minhag of most Ashkenazim and the Chabad Community).
(See your Passover Machzor or other appropriate source for the text.)

Holiday Times:

Check Synagogue Bulletins and Va'ad Website to Confirm and for Times According to Your Minhag

Candle Lighting – Shabbat HaGadol: Friday Night, April 18, 2008: 6:38/7:46 p.m.

Candle Lighting – First Yom Tov: Saturday, April 19, 2008: Not before 8:50 pm.

Note: Special Kiddush for Saturday Night Y”A”K”N”Z” (See your Hagadah).

Afikoman should be eaten by: 1:08 a.m. (Sunday, April 20, 2008).

Candle Lighting – Second Day Yom Tov Rishon: Sunday Night, April 20, 2008, no earlier than 8:52 p.m.

Begin counting Omer.

Afikoman should be eaten by: 1:08 a.m. (Monday, April 21, 2008)

Candle Lighting – Shabbat / Seventh Day Pesach (Friday, April 25, 2008): 6:45/7:56 p.m.

Candle Lighting – Eighth Day Pesach – Second Day (Saturday night, April 26, 2008): Not before 9:00 p.m.

Note: Special Kiddush for Saturday Night Y”A”K”N”Z” (See your Hagadah).

End of Holiday: Sunday night, April 27, 2008, 9:02 p.m. Chametz permitted after 9:30 p.m.