SEDERS, SERVICES PLANNED IN CELEBRATION OF PASSOVER.

Byline: Daily News

LANCASTER - Antelope Valley's Jewish congregations will hold Seders and services for Passover.

Commemorating the exodus from Egypt and the Jewish people's liberation from slavery, Passover - or Pesach, in Hebrew - begins this year on April 19 and continues for eight days.

During the first two nights, Jews conduct or attend a Seder - the Hebrew word for 'order' - a ritualized meal full of symbolic foods over which the story of the Jewish people's freedom is told with prayers, songs and narratives.

Passover services will be conducted at the Chabad Center for Jewish Enrichment, 42741 45th St. W., Suite E, Lancaster. Services are scheduled for 10 a.m. on April 20, 21, 22 and 26. The Yizkor memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. on April 27.

For more information, call [phone].

Beth Knesset Bamidbar will hold its annual community Seder at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at 1611 E. Ave. J. For members, the cost is $18 for adults, $10 for children. For nonmembers, the cost is $28 for adults, $14 for children.

BKB will hold services for the first day of Passover at 10 a.m. Thursday. Yizkor memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. on April 26.

For information on the BKB community Seder, contact Connie Moise at [phone]. For other information, call the synagogue at [phone].

The main commandments of the Seder are to eat matzo, unleavened bread; to tell the story of the Exodus by reciting the main parts of the Haggadah; to drink four cups of wine or grape juice; to eat bitter herbs called maror; and to praise the Creator by reciting the hallel, a set of psalms.