Don’t pass over these cocktails for Easter and Passover

Spring has already sprung, making it that time of the year when the planets align and the Earth renews itself. For those who doubt the veracity of that claim, I must point out that Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and the moon all did just align on March 28. But we aren’t really talking science here.

The spring equinox brings with it a variety of religious feast days. The two most prominent, Easter and Passover, are linked in a multitude of ways. Due to the complexities of religious calculations...