Prepared Passover food sits outside a Seder venue in Nepal.
Prepared Passover food sits outside a Seder venue in Nepal.
A team of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students will be heading out early for a 12 hour drive on a twisty highway from Sofia to the seaside resort of Varna, where they will lead Passover Seders in three different hotels. The plan is for them to arrive with enough time on Friday to prepare for the celebrations.

“In the other cities,” says Rabbi Yosef Salamon, co-director of the Rohr Chabad Jewish Community Center in Sofia, “we will be sending matzahs, wine, Haggadahs and other provisions to the local communities.”

Jewish leaders in those locations, who honed their Seder-conducting techniques under Salamon's tutelage, will lead their community’s ceremonies.

Salamon, who brought one ton of matzah to the country, delivered the special hand-baked unleavened bread to Jewish residents who did not have the necessary Seder ingredient. In Sofia, he says, the Chabad center’s newly completed and expanded kitchen will host a few hundred people for the Seder.