WILKES-BARRE -- Passover began at sundown on Friday and in Wilkes-Barre people gathered for a traditional Seder dinner.
The dinner was held at the Jewish Community Center on South River Street.
Passover is an eight day festival which marks the end of Israelite slavery in ancient Egypt.
"What was happening to our ancestor is obviously not happening to us. We're not out there building pyramid and stuff like that," said Rabbi Larry Kaplan, Temple Israel. "We though are ourselves slaves to all kind of nasty things, different habits and addictions and stuff like that."
More than a hundred people attended the Seder dinner in Wilkes-Barre Friday night.