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Passover commemorates the story of Moses and the Exodus in the Old Testament. During the first two nights, there are two large feasts, called the Seder (Hebrew for "Order") where the story is retold from a book called the Haggada.
No food containing yeast (called 'Chometz' or 'Chametz' in Hebrew) is allowed in the house during the holiday of Passover. Only unleavened bread, called Matzah, is permitted. This symbolizes the unleavened bread that the Israelites or Hebrews made in haste, as they were fleeing Egypt. There are other ceremonial foods eaten during Seder to commemorate the Exodus.
As the Jewish Calendar is based on the lunar cycle, it always appears Jewish holidays are "skipping around" because the rest of the world is based on a calendar which is based on the revolutions of the earth around the sun.
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