A Time for Healing at Passover Seder

By Natasha Rotstein
Special to The Moscow Times

Elaborately decorated tables greeted the guests arriving for Passover Seder at Moscow's Chabad Synagogue last week. Parishioners attending the ritual family dinner on the first evening of Passover warmly embraced friends before settling into their seats.

Standing among the clusters of smiling people, it was difficult to imagine that this was the synagogue where in January a man armed with a hunting knife had walked in and stabbed nine people before being wrestled to the floor and held until police arrived.