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Passover in the time of a pandemic

Tim Woodcock writes: Today is the start of Passover. Here is a fascinating news article about what Passover looks like locally this year, given the current situation with coronavirus. https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/a-pandemic-passover-st-louis-area-jewish-faithful-mark-holiday-in-a-year-different-from/article_a6225cd9-460e-5057-9ef9-714dd44a0d65.html This line in the Post-Dispatch article particularly jumped out at me: “We sing ‘Next year in Jerusalem’ during the Seder, meaning next year there will be freedom. But this year it also, to me, means next year we will be together again, next year I will get to see you, next year this will be over.” Nancy Quigley adds : In an article by Alana Newhouse (NYTimes, April 5) titled “The Power of Passover During a Plague,” she describes this religious observance as “an agglomeration of a long and global inheritance,” a story which must be told to the children. The Haggadah is a sort of narrative for Passover and i...

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