Guests eat a traditional Seder dinner in 2014. The BYU Seder Service is a long-standing tradition of celebrating Passover by learning more about Jewish history and culture. (Jeffrey Chadwick)
The public can join BYU students and faculty in celebrating Passover this March and April. The Department of Religious Education will host several Seder Services dinners, an educational evening and catered meal featuring the ritual foods of the Passover.
Professor of religious education Jeffrey Chadwick will host the ceremonial Seder dinner, which is traditionally held at the beginning of the week-long festival, using unleavened bread and bitter herbs to symbolize elements of ancient Israelite history.
'It's a cultural event to enhance the knowledge of BYU students and the general public about the Jewish festival of Passover,' Chadwick said. 'The Passover Seder essentially consists of two things: eating a meal that is a festival and a remembrance, and the telling of the story of the exodus.'
(Whitney Hales)