Israel – The majority of secular and traditional Israelis celebrate the Passover Seder, figures released last week by the Central Bureau of Statistics show.
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According to a social survey, 82% of seculars conduct the Seder, as do 93% of those who define themselves as “traditional but not so religious” and 98% of those who define themselves as “religious traditional.”
It appears, however, that eating kosher for Passover food is not as popular as celebrating the Seder. Ninety percent of the “religious traditional” are strict about not eating chametz (leavened food) during the holiday, while only 68% of the “traditional but not so religious” and 22% of the secular public do the same.
Full article at Ynet News
Its good that at least they will have a seder and identify with the theme of pesach and geualah. While it would be nice if more would also avoid chometz for yom tov, thats not as important as their identifying with the tzibur for the sedorim. Given that over 80 percent of frei yidden don’t care about eating chometz, it seems a bit bizarre that the Rav form Akko in the article last night was asking the Sheikh of Akko to have muslims not sell chametz to yidden over yom tov.
Why bizarre? He’s a rabbi and he does care about their aveiros even if they don’t.
What’s bizarre to me is people like you who look for any angle to criticize rabbonim.
And equally bizarre that you think ‘identifying’ with geula is more important than avoiding chametz and karess.
As if making a ceremonial Seder means they identify with geula in any case.
Comes to show you that it’s harder to drop the bad than to do the good.
What’s important is that these Jews continue to identify with Jewish tradition.
And some do more than others.
Be happy about that..
These are your brothers and sisters.
Don’t judge them.
It drives me mad that my own sister who has moved far away does not eat matzos on passover. Sad I guess, but thats the reality today. No surprise to you that we were orientated to a reform synagogue in our youth as the real Orthodox are no where near our own city. Thats life in the diaspora. I can not say that she eats alot of chometz though, perhaps thats the topic we will discuss soon.