Karaite Passover

THE KARAITES ARE ALIVE AND WELL and living, inter alia, in California.

Karaites celebrate Passover strictly from Torah

by faith kramer, j. correspondent (jweekly.com)

On the first night of Passover, more than 200 families in the Bay Area will share some ancient seder traditions and foods that would be unfamiliar to Jews raised with the four questions and sweet haroset.

That’s because the Bay Area is home to the largest enclave of Karaite Jews in the United States. A sect with roots that go back to the eighth century, Karaite Judaism derives its practices strictly from what is in the written Torah and not from the Talmud or other rabbinic traditions.

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Some earlier posts on the Karaites are here, here, here, here, here, and here.