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 　　WASHINGTON — Jewish people around theworld are celebrating Passover, acommemoration of their liberation from slaveryin Egypt more than 3,300 years ago. Accordingto scripture, God helped the Jews, led by Moses,escape bondage in Egypt and cross the Red Seainto the desert. The story of the Jewish Exodusresonates with other people trying to escapeslave-like conditions.

　　Preparations for Passover include butchering sheepand baking unleavened bread known as matzah.

　　"It's called the food of faith, just like our forefathers, when they left Egypt into the desert witha lot of faith, and trust in God, they went with these matzahs and we relive it every year whenwe celebrate the holiday of Passover, and we sit at our Passover table eating the matzah," saidRabbi Menachem Glukovsky.

　　Tradition does not allow consumption of products with yeast during the seven-day festival.Many Jewish communities observe the symbolic burning of yeast ahead of Passover.

　　"The symbolic burning of the chametz (leaven)… is a symbol of all the sins of klal yisrael, theJewish people… we pray to Hakodesh Baruch Hu (the Holy One Blessed by He) that all our sinsshould be burnt and we go in to the Pesach Yom-Tov (Passover holiday) fully purified," saidYehoshua Klein, an ultra-Orthodox Jew in Jerusalem.

　　In the neighboring West Bank, a Samaritan community near the city of Nablus performed atraditional butchering of sheep.

　　"This holiday is for seven days, first day is the slaughter day. We eat during this holiday onlystuff without yeast, for example we make the bread at home without yeast," explained HarounSaloum, a Samaritan priest.

　　It is not only Jews who observe Passover. Hundreds of detained African migrants gathered inIsrael's Negev desert on Friday to eat matzah and recall the Passover story, outside the facilitywhere they are being held. Despite efforts to prevent immigration from Egypt, and repatriateillegal African migrants, hundreds cross into Israel every year.

　　"You [Jews] asked to leave Egypt. We also asked to leave our countries because the situationthere is very difficult. The Torah says don't wrong a stranger, don't do those things, becauseyou were also one in Egypt. So I tell them [the Jews] don't forget the Torah," said AnwarSuliman, one of the Africans held in Israel's Holot detention facility.

　　Rabbi Susan Silverman, a pro-migrant activist, said Jews celebrating Passover must recall thereal spirit of Passover.

　　"Every single person in this country who sits down to a Passover seder [meal] has to say tothemselves: am I taking care of the stranger among us right now? Why am I doing this ritual?Is it an empty, meaningless ritual and I do it because my parents did it and my grandparentsdid it and my great-grandparents did it? Or do you do it because it means something?" saidSilverman.

　　Passover dinner is usually celebrated at home with family members and close friends. But inNepal's capital, Kathmandu, hundreds of Jewish travellers joined by local residents attendedwhat organizers claim was the world's biggest Passover celebration on Monday.

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