As the eight-day observance of Passover begins for Jews around the world, members of the Central Washington Jewish community will remember their ancestors’ exodus from the slavery of Egypt with food, prayer and traditions. Significantly, they will retell the Exodus story in the present tense, because slavery and escaping from terrors in one’s homeland remain an unfortunate part of today’s world, said Rabbi Jay Shupack of Yakima’s Temple Shalom. “With Ukraine, we still have people in exodus today. And the people are fleeing because they don’t want to be slaves to Russia,” Shupack said. “No matter when (Passover) is, there’s...
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