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Jews, Muslims share historic seder
Melissa singer

PESACH may still be a week away, but the spirit of religious freedom was alive in Melbourne this week at a historic inter-faith model seder for Jews and Muslims.

As part of the joint B’nai B’rith-Australian Intercultural Society Building Bridges project, around 80 Jews and Muslims gathered at the Prahran Community Centre last Sunday for an abridged version of the ritual Passover meal, led by Temple Beth Israel’s senior rabbi, Fred Morgan.

To accommodate the Muslim participants, grape juice was served instead of wine and the invocation “l’shana haba’ah b’Yerushalayim” was omitted from the edited Haggadah.

“It reminds us that we are required to speak out for freedom for all people,” he said.

Rabbi Morgan told the AJN that the omission was made so as to “be sensitive to the foundations” of the Building Bridges project — and to avoid the event from becoming political.

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