Source: Beliefnet/Religion News Service
https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/news/2010/03/for-uprooted-yemeni-jews-a-new
Three thousand years after their enslaved ancestors escaped Egypt, a small band of Jews who fled Yemen last summer have a new perspective on the Passover story, along with everything else in their uprooted lives.
Aided by the State Department and a mix of faith-based and social service agencies, 62 refugees -- more than half of them children -- have safely resettled in this thriving Jewish enclave about 30 miles north of New York City.
Daily struggles range from learning to read -- something most could not do in their native Arabic, let alone English -- to bundling up in donated jackets and boots against the winter cold. Constant concerns about friends and family left behind make them hesitant to share last names and other personal information.
This Passover, a weeklong holiday that starts at sunset on March 29 this year, they will sit down to their Seder meals on chairs instead of cushions, drinking bottled kosher wine instead of homemade concoctions, and munching on square matzo from boxes rather than the flatbread they ground and baked at home.