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A rabbi’s guide to having a virtual seder this Passover

A rabbi’s guide to having a virtual seder this Passover

This particular Passover, smack in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, will undoubtedly be different from all other holidays that friends and families have celebrated in the past. Instead, many social-distancing observers who can’t be with their loved ones in person plan to conduct seders this year over Google Hangouts and Zoom. Among those planning a virtual seder is Judith Hauptman, a rabbi and professor emerita of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary who typically leads massive seders for people in their 20s and 30s for the group Ohel Ayalah.