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 News from Around Banderas Bay | April 2008 
Passover Family Seder Celebrated Children
 Twila Crawford - PVNN
| | Mel and Barbara Bornstein coordinated the Passover Family Seder at Puerto Vallarta's Coconuts. The restaurant was filled with families celebrating. | | |
Puerto Vallarta's Coconuts Restaurant was filled with families celebrating the Passover Family Seder. Children participated in the readings and singing.
Two rabbis from Brooklyn, NY, led the Seder. The meal was kosher with meat and wine flown in the night before from Mexico City.
Seder means "order." The service includes recitation of the Haggadah in which the story of the Exodus is recounted and reenacted through prayer and ritual.
The Passover Seder table is set with a Seder tray containing a variety of symbolic foods. Six circular indentations hold the symbolic foods: Maror (bitter herbs), Karpas (vegetable) that is dipped in salt water during the Seder, Charoset (food mixture usually of apples, walnuts and cinnamon), Zeroa (bone), usually of chicken, is symbolic of the "mighty arm" of God, Baytza (egg), and Chazeret (vegetable) such as lettuce.
The leaders read:
We have gathered on this festive evening, at this Seder table, to recall, retell, and reenact the early history of our people who, from biblical days onward, were infused with a burning desire to achieve freedom.
We pray, as we sit here assembled in family friendship, and as we relive in words and symbols the ancient quest for liberty, that we shall become infused with renewed spirit and inspiration and understanding.
May the problem of all who are downtrodden be our problem, may the concern of all who are afflicted be our concern, may the struggle of all who strive for liberty and equality be our struggle.
In this spirit we now raise our cups to sanctify Thy Name in the words of the ancient Kiddush, which emphasizes our thankfulness for this holiday of Pesach, the Festival of Freedom, marking the Exodus from Egypt.
As the leaders said, "Passover has a message for the conscience and the heart of all mankind. It commemorates the deliverance of a people from degrading slavery, from cruel and inhuman tyranny."
Mel and Barbara Bornstein coordinated the Passover Family Seder. Mel, at age 80, was praised by those in attendance for his leadership of the community.
 An award-winning journalist, Twila Crawford lives in Puerto Vallarta, where, in addition to contributing articles to BanderasNews, the Vallarta Tribune and other local publications, she writes Out and About in Puerto Vallarta, an informative column that offers inside information about who, what, why, where and when it's happening around Banderas Bay.
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