Amid the evening rush, commuters boarding an uptown 6 train were met with an unusual sight: tables set up inside a subway car, passengers singing Hebrew prayers and sharing matzo ball soup, matzo and grape juice.<\/p>\n
It was a traditional Passover dinner \u2014 a seder \u2014 unfolding in one of the least traditional places imaginable.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s nothing traditional about this,\u201d one rider said.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
A rapper known as Kosha Dillz started hosting pop-up Passover seders on subway trains three years ago
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The moving celebration brings together riders of different backgrounds, including some attending their first seder
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Organizers say the quick, unconventional format is designed for people who might otherwise skip the holiday
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Participants say the experience is both meaningful and uniquely New York<\/p>\n
At a typical seder, participants recline as they eat, retelling the story of the Israelites\u2019 exodus from Egypt. On a moving train, that proved difficult.<\/p>\n
But for some riders, the unconventional setting offered something more important: a chance to take part in a holiday they might otherwise miss.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m too scared to fly home to my parents so this is the next best thing,\u201d one participant said.<\/p>\n
The subway seder also featured a man dressed as Moses. Under the beard was Rami Even-Esh, a rapper known as Kosha Dillz, who started the tradition three years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt started out in Coachella, we started out with \u2018Matzo-Chella.\u2019 We had this thing called a 10-minute seder. We made it for people who are in a rush and not going to do it anyway,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The concept has since made its way to New York City\u2019s transit system, where the seder moves as quickly as the train itself \u2014 this one running from Union Square to Hunts Point.<\/p>\n
Along the way, it brought together people of different backgrounds, many experiencing a seder for the first time.<\/p>\n
For others, the experience carried deeper meaning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it was beautiful, so uplifting. I just thought it was a wonderful experience. It was truly a wonderful experience. I can’t wait to do it again next year,\u201d said Elizabeth Weinstein, a participant.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it was a lot of fun, and it really just felt like a really nice community event,\u201d said Rose Golden, another participant.<\/p>\n
And for some, the subway setting made the celebration uniquely fitting.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is very different from all the other seders I’ve been to. But I feel like it\u2019s a very New York thing,\u201d said David Castro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid the evening rush, commuters boarding an uptown 6 train were met with an unusual sight: tables set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[25,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,7675,298,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-182321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-app-top-stories","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-manhattan-headlines","11":"tag-manhattan-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-religion","17":"tag-samantha-liebman","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}