eSefarad Noticias del Mundo Sefaradi
In April Jews celebrate Pesah, and Christians celebrate Easter. While the coinciding dates might change for those who celebrate the Catholic or Protestant Easter, for Greek Orthodox Christians, the dates always coincide because on the Greek Orthodox calendar, Easter is set on the first full moon after both the Spring Equinox and the beginning of Passover. In Greece, Jews and Christians share many of the same customs and foods for the holidays of Pesah and Easter. We both eat lamb and while Christians dye their eggs red and Jews eat Huevos Haminados colored brown during the cooking process, both have the custom of hitting the eggs together to see who has good luck. Finally, in Greece, the expression Kalo Pascha means both Happy Easter and Happy Pesah (Passover).
Attached below is this month’s April 2019 E-Newsletter, along with our Holiday Calendar for Passover, Shavuoth, and Tisha B’Av services. If you would like to sponsor a KKJ E-Newsletter in Honor or in Memory of someone, please reach out to us at museum@kkjsm.org. We hope you enjoy this month’s E-Newsletter!
