What do average Jews do for Passover?

Seder, usually on the first, first and second, or sometimes other nights.

And refraining from chametz for a week.

Christians shouldn't do anything for Passover. It's not a Christian holiday.

Traditions and rituals often follow families...for instance, there's a book, called a haggaddah, that has all the important things in it, but many people have their seders with the same people every year, and there are jokes and such that come up every year and are expanded upon.

There's part of the ceremony where we always have celery...it's the first food after about an hour of service...one of our participants, after everyone crunched into their celery with relish, piped up and said: "This is the noisiest part of the seder". This was repeated for years.

There's a part where the story about the matzah is told. One participant pipes up and says: "Yeah, but did what they made that first time look and taste like corrugated cardboard?" Again, repeated for years.

A friend of mine had a typo in their books...there's a traditional poem about the "song of the turtledove", except their books only said "turtle". One youngster says: "Is that 'kowabunga'?" (referring to the then popular Ninja Turtles) Not only repeated at THEIR seder, this one has spread across the US to any place the brother and sister have gone to a service, and is repeated by many friends of theirs.

Stories like those abound, along with jokes that people make about matzah balls either being bounceable, or falling apart in the soup, and other cooking disasters, often the first or second that anyone made in their lives, as we all get better with practice.

Musts are following the seder as proscribed, and having no chametz. Most Eastern European Jews, and Americans of Eastern European descent, have a long list of forbidden foods. Many people are questioning the need to follow that, since the laws were made based upon the typical market place hundreds of years ago.

Also known as the Feast of Unleavened Bread, This year April 18th -26th, 2011

The Passover Seder is one of the most widely observed of all Jewish customs, and at the center of every observance of Seder lies the Passover Seder Plate(Hebrew: ke'ara), a special plate containing symbolic foods used by Jews during the Passover Seder. The plate is carefully prepared and placed before the head of the household, or the one conducting the Seder, who dispenses the Seder foods to each of the participants. Each of the six items arranged on the plate has special significance to the retelling of the story of the Exodus from Egypt, which is the focus of this ritual meal. The seventh symbolic item used during the meal — a stack of three matzos — is placed on its own plate on the Seder table.

Matzah is a crisp, flat, unleavened bread made of plain white flour, and water. The dough is pricked in several places and not allowed to rise before or during baking, thereby producing a hard, flat bread.Matza is the substitute for bread during the Jewish holiday of Passover, when eating chametz - bread and leavened products - is forbidden. Eating matza on the night of the Seder is considered a positive mitzvah, i.e., a commandment.

Eating Matzah on Passover commemorates the unleavened bread eaten by the Jews when they left Egypt in such haste that there was no time for the dough to rise. (Exodus 12:39). It symbolizes redemption and freedom, but also serves as a reminder to be humble, and to not forget what life was like in servitude.

On the second night we begin to count the Omer = the 50 days to Shavuot = The Feast of First Fruits

So there is NOTHING that every Jew does. However, there are things that all orthodox Jews do. All orthodox Jews clean there houses from bottom to top to get ride of chometz (bread and cookie type things) and most Jew whether Orthodox or not have a seder in which you read from a "book" called Hagadah and talk about Jewish stuff.

The basics of Passover are asking four questions, eating matzoh and bitter herbs, telling the story of the Exodus, and searching for the afikomen.

They have a seder and dont eat bread

for more info on passover go to http://www.jewishanswers.webs.com/festivals.htm