JDCC Tenth Community Seder – April 6, 2004

One hundred seventy five participants were at JDCC’s Tenth Annual Community Seder.

A survey was conducted after Passover and the results were gratifying from the input submitted by first-time attendees to these who have attended JDCC Seders in the past. Attendees came from near and as far as New York and Maryland. They all enjoyed the new social hour feature with the vegetable appetizers.

The social hour enabled the Seder to start at 7:00 pm and the evening flowed from therewith the multimedia viewing. It started with Marlee Matlin explaining the purpose of the JDCC Community Seder in a multimedia setting. Rabbi Rebecca Dubowe was next on the video with the candle-lighting blessing and continued with the first cup of wine. DJ Kurs came on next to be the Seder leader and kept us all enjoyable throughout the reading of the multimedia Haggadah. The Four Questions were given by Rachel Soudakoff and Michael Soudakoff. The participants joined Sharon Ann Dror in the Dayeinu song. After the Seder dinner, the program continued with the finding of the Afikomen and the Afikomen finders from each table were given a gift card from either Target, Michaels, or Linen ‘N Things. Joshua Soudakoff gave the Chad-Gad-Yo rendition. The program concluded with all the participants wishing each other “Next Year in Jerusalem.”