A series of Passover observances for the aged, the ill and the indigent and for children with handicaps was announced today by the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and its 130 affiliated agencies. Traditional holiday observances for children will be held at the Federation’s Pleasantville Cottage School of the Jewish Child Care Association which will be attended this year by about 400 boys and girls, the Federation announced. The Federation’s Joint Passover Association will also make it possible for thousands of needy families to enjoy the Passover festival in their homes. Federation hospitals have planned for the holiday, the announcement said. Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx and the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn will hold seders. The Federation’s community centers and YM-YWHAs have been busy with pre-holiday preparations which included instructions in cooking Passover foods. Public events are also scheduled in cities across the country to celebrate Passover. The coincidence this year of Passover and Easter prompted the Catholics and Jews in Philadelphia to share the Passover seder as a means of furthering inter-religious understanding. The Jewish-Catholic Relations Committee of the Cardinal’s Committee on Human Relations proposed that Jewish families invite Catholic neighbors for either the first or second seders in their homes or to community seders in synagogues. Catholic youth groups will be invited to participate in model seders or third seders held by synagogue youth groups. The National Jewish Welfare Board announced that traditional seders will be held for Jewish members of the armed services in Vietnam and in 600 other overseas and domestic military installations. The Jewish Association for Services for the Aged is sponsoring a number of community seders for lonely, poverty stricken elderly men and women in various sections of NYC and on Long Island. The 39th annual Third Seder of the Greater New York Histadrut Council will be held Sunday evening.
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