{"id":53525,"date":"2016-03-29T12:11:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T17:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=53525"},"modified":"2016-03-29T12:14:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T17:14:19","slug":"the-worlds-largest-seder-in-nepal-will-go-on-despite-slow-earthquake-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/inspiration\/the-worlds-largest-seder-in-nepal-will-go-on-despite-slow-earthquake-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s largest seder \u2014 in Nepal \u2014 will go on, despite slow earthquake recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the JTA:<\/p>\n<p>When the ground started to shake beneath Rabbi Chezki Lifshitz\u2019s feet, he\u00a0was praying near a doorway at the Chabad House of Kathmandu, where he lives with his wife, Chani, and their six children.<\/p>\n<p>Lifshitz, 42, an energetic redhead who was born in Israel, has served as the\u00a0Chabad-Lubavitch movement\u2019s first permanent envoy to Nepal since 2000, when he and Chani opened the Chabad House in the earthquake-prone nation\u2019s capital. Since then he has lived in\u00a0expectation of tremors.<\/p>\n<p>But nothing could have prepared him for the 30 seconds of violent shaking on April 25 of last year, which was so powerful it shifted the whole of Kathmandu 10 feet southward. The city was devastated and some 9,000 people throughout the small, mountainous country were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2016\/03\/28\/jewish-holidays\/passover\/the-worlds-largest-seder-in-nepal-will-go-on-despite-slow-earthquake-recovery\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the JTA: When the ground started to shake beneath Rabbi Chezki Lifshitz\u2019s feet, he\u00a0was praying near a doorway at the Chabad House of Kathmandu, where he lives with his wife, Chani, and their six children. 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