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KINGSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — In Luzerne County, dozens gathered to observe the beginning of Passover with the Seder Dinner, a Jewish ritual celebrated during the first two nights of Passover. On Monday, the JCC in Kingston held the dinner along with the annual reading of the biblical story of the exodus, when the Israelites []
Monday night, as Passover begins, Jews around the world celebrate their ancestors’ liberation from slavery in ancient Egypt. That liberty was hardly cost-free. Participants in the Seder will recount the 10 plagues by symbolically dipping a finger in their glass of wine and removing a drop, one for each debacle. This recalls the destruction that paved the way to freedom. The Hebrew Bible recounts that after the Israelites made it across the Red Sea, God kept the waters parted to lure the Egyptian...
Every single Friday, 100-year-old Ruth Phillips lights candles around her home while her phone rings with friends, family and rabbis wishing her a happy Shabbat. Despite living by herself in the small northern NSW town of Gleniffer, the centenarian has found through constant communication, she is not alone. However, every year she braves the cold and travels 1,300 kilometres from her home in Gleniffer to Melbourne to celebrate the Jewish festival of Passover, or Pesach, with her family. "It's...
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Passover begins Monday night and Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy in Longmeadow gave out Seder-to-go meals to celebrate the Jewish Holiday.
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