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Woodmere Fire Departments hosts 14th annual event
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Burning the chometz — food items not kosher for Passover — outside the Woodmere Fire Department on April 22.
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Woodmere Fire Department Commissioner David Stern tossed a trash can full of burnt items into the dumpster at the chometz burning.
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Jud Berman, a Woodmere Fire Department chaplain, tended to the fire in one of the trash cans last Friday.
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Goldie Cohen, a West Palm Beach resident who visited family for Passover, read the blessing that accompanies burning the chometz.
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Five Towns residents and others from surrounding communities brought their chometz — food items not kosher for Passover — to the 14th annual Woodmere Fire Department chometz burning on April 22.
The eight-day holiday, which commemorates the ancient Hebrews being freed from bondage in Egypt, began last Friday and continues until April 30.
Trash cans were set up and the chometz was placed was them and then emptied into a dumpster that contained a larger fire. A blessing is read after the items are burned.
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