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This Pesach, Chabad of Cyprus will be organizing four sedorim with hundreds of people in attendance. The main seder will be held at the Chabad House in Larnaka, where a over 250 people have made reservations and even more are expected to attend. The local Jews of Larnaka will be joined by many traveling business people from around the world, as well as Israeli and American tourist. Rabbi Zeevi Raskin will lead the Hebrew seder, while Motti Seligson and Yudi Steiner will run the seder in English.

Another two sedorim will take place on the Turkish-North side of Cyprus, where bochurim have koshered an Israeli owned hotel and are expecting many Israelis who often spend their vacations in Cyprus, to take part in the seder. A number of bochurim have flown into Cyprus from Israel to assist in the Pesach preparations, including Shaykee Farkash, Motti Herzog, Yosi Prag, Menachem Shikevitch and Aharon Ullman.

Cyprus Celebrates Pesach As Never Before!

This Pesach, Chabad of Cyprus will be organizing four sedorim with hundreds of people in attendance. The main seder will be held at the Chabad House in Larnaka, where a over 250 people have made reservations and even more are expected to attend. The local Jews of Larnaka will be joined by many traveling business people from around the world, as well as Israeli and American tourist. Rabbi Zeevi Raskin will lead the Hebrew seder, while Motti Seligson and Yudi Steiner will run the seder in English.

Another two sedorim will take place on the Turkish-North side of Cyprus, where bochurim have koshered an Israeli owned hotel and are expecting many Israelis who often spend their vacations in Cyprus, to take part in the seder. A number of bochurim have flown into Cyprus from Israel to assist in the Pesach preparations, including Shaykee Farkash, Motti Herzog, Yosi Prag, Menachem Shikevitch and Aharon Ullman.

In addition, Chabad of Cyprus has supplied many Jews with hand backed shmurah matzah and wine. The matzah has reached every major city on the island, including Limossol, Pafos and Lafkosia. Chabad has also organized containers of pesach products form Israel to be available in Cyprus.

This year is the first time that Jewish prisoners in Cyprus will be able to receive matzah and grape juice for pesach. This is something that means very much to the Jewish inmates, one has even considered going on a hunger strike if he would be denied the matzah. The prison warden has called the shliach and expressed interest in organizing the same service for other Jewish holidays as well.

The activities in Cyprus have been made possible through a grant from Merkoz Leinyonei Chinuch, organized by Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, who has been helping the Chabad Center of Cyprus since its establishment.

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