800 Students Take a ‘Jewish Trip’ to Shanghai, China

Emerson students celebrate Passover with traditional Seder and Shabbat dinner

On April 12, around 35 students gathered in the Beard Room in Piano Row for Emerson Hillel’s Passover Seder, a traditional meal held on the first night of the week-long holiday.  Passover commemorates the Hebrew Exodus from Egypt and the Jewish liberation from slavery. Jewish students gathered to celebrate the holiday that symbolizes freedom, and the birth of a Jewish nation.  Passover is a Jewish holiday celebrated over eight days with traditio…

800 Students Take a ‘Jewish Trip’ to Shanghai, China

800 Jewish students from Russia and other countries in the FSU traveled Shanghai, concluding a year of Jewish studies coordinated by the ‘YAHAD’ organization. Full Story