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Some local residents said the store likely suffered a business hit when a handful of Jewish families became upset that Mr. Ross chose to remain open on Passover in recent years.

And that's how the saints all ascend to heaven, like a child screaming, Daddy, I want to stay up here, Daddy, don't get me down, Our Father Our King, leave us up here, Our Father Our King! (From "Open Closed Open: Poems") So all the rituals of Passover — what Amichai calls child's play — do not necessarily communicate the notion of freedom they were devised to transmit.

Are Banks Open During Passover?

But the ceremony honoring the first night of Passover in "The Whipping Man," an atmospheric period drama by Matthew Lopez that opened on Tuesday night at City Center's Stage I, surely has few equals in its arresting strangeness.

The Hebrew name for the holiday of Passover.

*As April 26 and 27 are the last two days of Passover, Kosher for Passover food will be available upon request.

This has grown into three nights of Passover menus with traditional melodies played on an iPod, a hidden afikomen (a ritual matzo) with prizes, Haggadot from Seders past, and the door opened for Elijah the prophet.

The Warsaw Ghetto uprising began on the eve of Passover.

Shiva was concluded by the onset of Passover.

Passover once marked the beginning of the barley festival; Easter, linked to the date of Passover, is a spring festival.

She used them only one night a year, the first night of Passover.