Lexie Szafranski has been to a lot of Passover seders. But nothing quite prepared her for when Rabbi Berel Goldman, director of Lubavitch Chabad Jewish Student Center at the University of Florida in Gainesville, told her they’d be moving the annual campus seder into a sports arena.
“I thought it was crazy,” said the University of Florida senior from Surfside, Fla., who serves as president of Chabad’s student board. “Sure, it was getting crowded at the Chabad center, and people were spread all over the place, but to rent out the basketball stadium?”
Now she can’’t imagine it any other way.