JEWS IN ARMENIA CELEBRATE EASTER ACCORDING TO TRADITION

Panorama.am
21:09 02/04/2007

May Pesakh be according to tradition and happy! This is how the Jews
throughout the world congratulate each other with Easter. The Jews
in Armenia are now celebrating the Easter in one of Yerevan hotels.

Before sitting at table, they prayed. Until today, women and men pray
separately according to Jewish tradition.

In the course of one week before Pesakh, Jews do not eat pastry or
bread prepared with yeast. On the day, they do not drink water and
drink only grape juice.

Gersh Burshtein, Jewish community head, told Panorama.am that Jews
eat only matsa (bread prepared only with flour and water). "Bread with
yeast contains a lot of air, whereas matsa is made of only flour. The
truth is one and it is dense like this bread. When we feed ourselves
with air, truth becomes secondary. It hold us back from getting close
to God," the community head said.