{"id":532,"date":"2009-04-10T11:24:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T11:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/04\/seen-in-one-city-beautiful-rituals.html"},"modified":"2009-04-10T11:24:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T11:24:15","slug":"seen-in-one-city-beautiful-rituals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/04\/seen-in-one-city-beautiful-rituals.html","title":{"rendered":"Seen in One City: Beautiful Rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Passover Sing-A-Long\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kc6K9fao7Fs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nMy favorite Buddhism-studying, Judaism-propagating, skateboarding, NYC-former-hip-hop kid Evan Rock leads about 60 of his hipster friends through the Passover Seder on 2nd night of Passover. 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