{"id":60,"date":"2026-04-08T12:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chabadnews.al\/?p=60"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:27:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:27:49","slug":"is-this-the-largest-passover-seder-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chabadnews.al\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Is This the Largest Passover Seder in the United States?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lexie Szafranski has been to a lot of\u00a0<span class=\"glossary_item\">Passover<\/span>\u00a0seders. But nothing quite prepared her for when Rabbi\u00a0<span class=\"glossary_item\">Berel<\/span>\u00a0Goldman, director of\u00a0Lubavitch Chabad Jewish Student Center at the University of Florida\u00a0in Gainesville, told her they\u2019d be moving the annual campus\u00a0<span class=\"glossary_item\">seder<\/span>\u00a0into a sports arena.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was crazy,\u201d said the University of Florida senior from Surfside, Fla., who serves as president of\u00a0<span class=\"glossary_item\">Chabad<\/span>\u2019s student board. \u201cSure, it was getting crowded at the\u00a0<span class=\"glossary_item\">Chabad center<\/span>, and people were spread all over the place, but to rent out the basketball stadium?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now she can\u2019&#8217;t imagine it any other way.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container container_left border hide_for_print\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lexie Szafranski has been to a lot of\u00a0Passover\u00a0seders. But nothing quite prepared her for when Rabbi\u00a0Berel\u00a0Goldman, director of\u00a0Lubavitch Chabad Jewish Student Center at the University of Florida\u00a0in Gainesville, told her they\u2019d be moving the annual campus\u00a0seder\u00a0into a sports arena. \u201cI thought it was crazy,\u201d said the University of Florida senior from Surfside, Fla., who serves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,1],"tags":[19,20],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-insights","category-news","tag-community","tag-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chabadnews.al\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chabadnews.al\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chabadnews.al\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chabadnews.al\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chabadnews.al\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chabadnews.al\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/chabadnews.al\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chabadnews.al\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chabadnews.al\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chabadnews.al\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}