South Florida Family Opens Up Home, Commemorates Passover With Ukrainians Displaced By War

By Jacqueline Quynh, CBS Miami

April 16, 2022

Passover begins at sundown, but families have already begun getting together, and this year, it takes on new meaning as local Jews are preparing and helping those in need, including Ukrainian refugees.

“Passover isn’t necessarily a celebration, it’s a commemoration, it’s a commemoration of a process of a movement, from servitude and slavery to liberation and salvation,” Rabbi Adam Watstein said.

Watstein is with Temple B’Nai Aviv in Weston. “When you think about Mitzrayim in Egypt, it’s a narrow confined space where you have spiritual strangulation and no hope,” he explained.

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