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Jews in Ukraine celebrate Pesach during the war, in defiance of the Russian invasion

Ukrainian Rabbi Moshe Azman began this year’s Easter, usually a holiday, with a funeral: he buried a member of his flock shot by Russian occupiers on a street near Kyiv.

Rabbi Azman then rushed back to the capital to lead a wartime Seder in the basement of the main synagogue, one of the few that remained open during the Russian invasion.