Coronavirus Outbreak To Affect Passover Observance In LA

Los Angeles CA

29 March, 2021

6:36 PM

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By CBSLA Staff, CBS Los Angeles: LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – The eight-day celebration of Passover began at sundown Friday, affected by the coronavirus pandemic in multiple ways. Rabbi Ilana Grinblat of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, the vice president of community engagement for the Board of Rabbis of Southern California, said the Seders she will conduct "will reflect on the struggles of the pandemic in the past year and our hopes for a brighter future in the year to come. "The Passover ritual takes on a new and deeper meaning given the struggles that we have faced in the past year and are facing now," Grinblat said. Read more at CBS Los Angeles