This Wednesday evening, the Jews of the whole world open by the same domestic ritual the feast of Passover, the Jewish Passover. This celebration will continue until April 16 despite the closings of synagogues now everywhere applied - if not with very rare exceptions - and travel restrictions. The confinement particularly strikes the Jewish community because it is in family, at home, that the celebration of Easter begins, as explained by Mendel Samana, 43, one of the rabbis of the consistory of Bas-Rhin in Strasbourg, a very city affected by the epidemic.
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Affiliated to one of the great families of Judaism, the Lubavitch, he is in charge of the synagogue of Meunau, south of the metropolis. The Lubavitch are reputed to be Orthodox in their approach to religion - not to be confused with the ultra-Orthodox - but that does not prevent them from adapting to the circumstances: "This epidemic pushes us to find the essentials," explains Mendel Samana. We will help the faithful to join
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