From drive-in services to online Seders to collaborative egg hunts, here's how to celebrate Easter and Passover this year
If there's anything families around the world are demonstrating as we approach Passover and Easter, it's the English proverb,"Necessity is the mother of invention."
With people under various restrictions on movement, including stay-at-home orders and self-isolation, families are devising alternative ways to observe the spring holidays. They include streaming online Easter church services, hosting virtual Passover Seder dinners, holding family-only egg hunts in the backyard and more.The goal is to comply with social distancing guidelines by celebrating together -- but apart -- to prevent further spread of the coronavirus.
Having a virtual Seder is about more than continuing a tradition, Feldman said. "It's not just maintaining normalcy in a time where people don't have any," Feldman said. "It's sustaining who we are as a people, and this is so important to us, that we recognize the significance of this particular holiday, that we have a stronger obligation to keep it, maintain it, to share it and not forget.
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