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Are you ready for the most Matzoh-tastic time of the year? Passover is THIS WEEKEND, and we know you are all ready to dust off those Haggadahs and carbo-load on Matzoh and Matzoh balls! But where to go? And what to do??? Kehilat Shanghai has got you covered!
Please join Kehilat Shanghai for our Annual 2nd Night Community Seder! We will be continuing the tradition of holding it on the second night of Passover, which this year falls on Saturday, April 20th. This year we are excited to welcome Zachary Wiener from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
*Please note that due to Chinese regulations, Kehilat Shanghai events and activities are available only for foreign passport holders and their families. Thank you for your understanding.
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WHEN
Saturday, April 20th, 2019
Doors open at 5:00pm
Seder starts promptly at 6:00pm
WHERE
The Millennium Hongqiao Hotel／上海千禧海鸥大酒店( 2588 Yan'an Xi Lu 延安西路2588号、近水城路)
Where we were for last passover, and the High Holidays!
Directions:
By Metro: Take line 10 to ShuiCheng Lu stop, get off towards the Shanghai Dance Exhibition exit, walk down ShuiCheng Lu and cross the street towards Carreforre, turn left on YanAn Xi Lu and the hotel entrance will be on your right. )
Agenda
- Open doors
- Kids Activity
- Seder
Zachary Wiener
Zachary Wiener
Zachary Wiener is an American rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, a progressive Jewish seminary in Philadelphia. An avid traveler, Zack has lived, studied, and worked in five countries in the last eight years—including graduate studies in Canada, undergraduate fieldwork in Mongolia, and limmud torah in Jerusalem. He comes to Shanghai excited to serve an East Asian WUPJ community, after experiencing Yom Kippur services at UHC in Singapore and working with emerging Jewish communities
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in Indonesia with Rabbi David Kunin of the Jewish Community of Japan.
In his years training for the rabbinate, Zack has focused his rabbinic work in the field of hospital and campus chaplaincy, providing pastoral care on a traumatic injuries unit and enriching Jewish life and learning at a local university. In Jerusalem, he served as an educator and spiritual mentor for recovering addicts living in a men’s sober house. Academically, Zack is a passionate student of Zohar, Maimonidean thought, and hasidic mysticism. He is a fluent speaker of Yiddish, and will begin teaching Yiddish language
courses in Philadelphia next year.
Zack anticipates ordination in the spring of 2020. He is grateful to return to East Asia to celebrate z’man cheruteinu (the Season of our Liberation) with Kehilat Shanghai!
