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Rabbi Albert Slomovitz, the executive director of the Jewish Christian Discovery Center (JCDC), will lead a model Passover Seder Supper at the Catholic Church of St. Ann in Marietta on Thursday, April 10 at 6:30 pm. This year Passover and Easter share a date on the calendar with Passover beginning at sundown Saturday, April 12 and ending on Easter Sunday, April 20.
Passover is the Jewish holiday that commemorates the ancient Israelites’ liberation from slavery in Egypt. Jews around the world sit with friends and family for the Seder meal to retell the Exodus story of Moses leading the Israelites to freedom.
Each spring as Jews observe Passover, Christians celebrate Easter. They believe that Jesus’s last supper was a Passover Seder.
“Both Passover and Easter have a lot of shared meaning,” Rabbi Slomovitz said. “Jesus would have celebrated Passover as the Jews of his era did. His Seder would retell the story of freedom from slavery in ancient Egypt.”
The Passover and Easter holidays are times when both faiths celebrate freedom and religious renewal.
“As a practicing Jew, Jesus led his Seder with his apostles. Christians and Jews can come together for Passover to celebrate shared religious meaning,” Rabbi Slomovitz said.
JCDC is a non-profit educational foundation whose mission is to reduce antisemitism and other forms of intolerance. It publishes children’s books in English and Spanish about Judaism and Jesus’ Jewish life. It produced the award-winning film, “The Magical Encounter.” In December 2024, it sponsored the Let There Be Light campaign with billboards and public service announcements across the country commemorating shared meaning for Hannukah and Christmas. In 2023 it worked with several Atlanta area churches on the Breaking Badness Choosing Goodness Easter and Passover interfaith prayer service.
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