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Cornell Jewish Community Celebrates Purim
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After online and hybrid celebrations during the pandemic, Purim festivities finally took place almost completely in-person on March 16.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/chabad/)
After online and hybrid celebrations during the pandemic, Purim festivities finally took place almost completely in-person on March 16.
The week-long spring festival, which started Wednesday evening, is generally spent with loved ones sharing meals, is being celebrated online this year.
Around 6:30 p.m. on a Friday, if you walk past 102 Willard Way, you’ll see a group of men with thick beards armed with Kippahs and prayer books. At this time, they’re deep in focus, unified in prayer, speaking the Hebrew words that welcome in the Shabbat — the holiest day of the week. Around the world, thousands of synagogues join. Walk past the same building an hour later, and the sights and sounds of 102 Willard Way will be those you can’t find in synagogues anywhere else. Friday night Shabbat dinner is a culinary and cultural spectacle only the Chabad at Cornell can do.