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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 415695" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>Hi, I'm not Esther but at my seders, I read some in Hebrew, everyone else reads english and the singing is in hebrew. When I was a kid, my mom's aunt used to change the end of the Diaspora seder, which is "Next year in Jerusalem" to "Next year in Miami Beach."</p><p></p><p>About 20 years ago, my H was sponsoring a friend who was converting to Catholicism (she was originally Jewish and Greek Orthodox). They do this on the Saturday night before Easter. Imagine my surprise at the mass when they basically start telling the Exodus story. I thought the service would have been all about the crucifixion. Then I found out that the Last Supper (I actually saw the painting in Italy) referred to a seder. Of course, the "best" parts of the service were when my son, who was 20 months, saw the communion wafers and started screaming for cookies and when the priest said "We must renounce Satan" and my 5 month old daughter started making raspberries so loud that the whole church heard them and started laughing.</p><p></p><p>As for going to a service, it would depend on what kind you went to. Reform is primarily done in English, Conservative can be a mix and Orthodox is in Hebrew and the sexes are separately seated. Wearing a cross would be fine, it's your religious symbol, but waving one around might be a little much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 415695, member: 3493"] Hi, I'm not Esther but at my seders, I read some in Hebrew, everyone else reads english and the singing is in hebrew. When I was a kid, my mom's aunt used to change the end of the Diaspora seder, which is "Next year in Jerusalem" to "Next year in Miami Beach." About 20 years ago, my H was sponsoring a friend who was converting to Catholicism (she was originally Jewish and Greek Orthodox). They do this on the Saturday night before Easter. Imagine my surprise at the mass when they basically start telling the Exodus story. I thought the service would have been all about the crucifixion. Then I found out that the Last Supper (I actually saw the painting in Italy) referred to a seder. Of course, the "best" parts of the service were when my son, who was 20 months, saw the communion wafers and started screaming for cookies and when the priest said "We must renounce Satan" and my 5 month old daughter started making raspberries so loud that the whole church heard them and started laughing. As for going to a service, it would depend on what kind you went to. Reform is primarily done in English, Conservative can be a mix and Orthodox is in Hebrew and the sexes are separately seated. Wearing a cross would be fine, it's your religious symbol, but waving one around might be a little much. [/QUOTE]
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