More than 400 people attended a Passover seder in Russia in what is believed to be the first-ever interfaith celebration of Passover there. Many Muslim and Christian students attended the seder conducted by a Hillel student group in Ufa, the capital of the predominantly Muslim region of Bashkiria.
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