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04/11/2020 09:00:52 PM

Apr11

Brian Mullahy

Utah’s Jewish community is the middle of Passover, the eight-day celebration of ancient freedom from slavery.

For a second night Seder Supper, two synagogues—Congregation Kol Ami in Salt Lake and Temple Har Shalom near Park City—joined for live-streaming on Zoom Thursday evening, and drew hundreds of people.

Rabbi Sam Spector says: "Whenever there has been something that has perhaps tried to change the course of Jewish ritual and Jewish observance, such as when the temple was burned down, we had to get creative, and we had to get innovative."

Spector added that the most important tenet of Jewish law is the protection of human life.

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