Thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch centers across the globe will host communal Passover Seders this Saturday night and Sunday night for anyone who wants to come. All told, hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of Jewish life are expected at the feasts, which commemorate the Jewish people’s Exodus from Egypt 3,321 years ago. A handful of Chabad Houses reported on the special preparations involved this year due to the fact that Shabbat immediately precedes Passover.
Thousands of Jewish Centers Worldwide Gear-Up for Passover
Thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch centers across the globe will host communal Passover Seders this Saturday night and Sunday night for anyone who wants to come. All told, hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of Jewish life are expected at the feasts, which commemorate the Jewish people’s Exodus from Egypt 3,321 years ago. A handful of Chabad Houses reported on the special preparations involved this year due to the fact that Shabbat immediately precedes Passover.
Larnaca, Cyprus: Mapping the Cypriot Island With Seders
Surrounded by the hustle and bustle of people carrying boxes and answering phones, Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin, co-director of the Cyprus Jewish Community Center describes the enormous logistical task of organizing five community Passover celebrations for the tourist destination popular with Israelis.
Besides the communal Seders at the center in Larnaca, feasts are planned in Ayin Napa, where the Chabad House has a permanent branch, Limassol and the capital city of Nicosia.
With a budget of more than $50,000, Raskin, with the assistance of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students, is overseeing food preparation for some 800 people. Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the education arm of Chabad-Lubavitch, provided a grant for the effort. Most of the provisions arrived from Italy and Israel, but the rabbi also arranged for a local boutique winery to produce the island’s first Kosher for Passover wine in hundreds of years.
