Project Category: Seder Portfolio

In the Seder meal, we drink from our cup while we lean to the left.

 Holly Stewart Franz is a Jerusalem alumni and professional piano teacher who recently relocated to the Lehi/Highland area of Utah. She has been working with students for over 30 years, teaching private and group piano lessons, organ lessons, AP Music Theory, and general music classes in California, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Spain. She received her education...

We were delighted to see tables filled with alumni. Some met for the first time and many reunited after many years.

We were fortunate to hear solos by Jamie Baer Peterson. Soprano Jamie Baer Peterson is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and began her operatic career as an apprentice with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Her time with LOC led her to perform leading roles throughout the United States, Canada, and France singing...

Jim and Linda Kearl were present at the Seder. Jim has been the Assistant to the President of the University over the Jerusalem Center for over 30 years. He spoke to us that evening about the things regarding the Jerusalem Center program that have not changed and should not change.

As part of the tradition, we dipped our fingers in the juice then put those drops on the plate.

Four of the fabulous Bonner family members came and sang to us. They sang How Great Thou Art and then Child of God from the movie, Emma and Jane.

  What a joy it was to see some come in costume!

  Krista Kasey from Summer 1994 watches as the Seder rituals are taught.