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Travel Blogger: Simon Gelfand
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Pessach in Queenstown

Posted on Apr. 18, 2006 at 09:50 (Subscribe)
Tonight is the Pesach Seder, he night we planned and hope to come to since we left Israel, there is nothing like being half way across the world and enjoying a Jewish Chag with a few hundred Jews from all the world. We arrived at the prestigious Rydges Hotel around 18:00 and got settled in to our seats. Soon after the place started to fill up, tons of Israelis and other Jewish travels from all of the world in the same room. Our table friends were 3 guys traveling together for the lost six months. One of them we spent a lot of time with later in the trip , going by the name of Hezi. The Rabbi conducted the Seder was a young rabbi who we believe was his first time doing one. He came from bet chabad in Thailand all the way just to be with us. By the end of the evening he was drunk, all the participants were drunk all from the tons of wine that they gave us. The waiters we had didn't know what hit them, it was there first time witnessing a Seder dinner, they found it pretty weird.

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