Northfield News features Passover Seder hosted at Carleton
The Passover Seder was hosted in Carleton’s Great Hall.
Northfield News featured the community Passover Seder hosted at Carleton this month in a piece titled, “Faith, Feast, and Freedom: Northfield Jews celebrate Passover in community Seder.”
Stacy Beckwith, W.I. and Hulda F. Daniell Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Rav Michaela Brown, associate chaplain for Jewish and interfaith life, were quoted and pictured in the article, along with a few Carleton students.
Jews around the world are currently celebrating Passover, one of the most important holidays of the Jewish faith.
On Wednesday evening, Northfield’s Jewish community gathered in the Great Hall on Carleton College’s campus for a community Seder that welcomed Jews and non-Jews alike on the first of the eight holy nights. Wine and grape juice stained their teeth, smells of kosher chicken and matzah-ball soup filled the air and their fingers were adorned with small puppets representing ten different plagues from Biblical times.
Passover is widely considered among the oldest continuously observed traditions of any faith, dating back more than 3,000 years.