In Odesa, Ukraine, celebrating Passover during wartime requires gathering at the local Chabad synagogue for Seder ahead of the citywide 9 p.m. curfew.
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They traveled to the historic hotel along the Black Sea through checkpoints and a darkened side entrance. Inside, the opulent lobby lights are off, and drapes are drawn. On a small entry table sit four stacks of matzah.
Welcome to Passover during wartime in this Ukrainian port city, where the city’s remaining Jewish population celebrates freedom over tyranny even as their community has been scattered by war across Europe and the world, for the second time in the past century.
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