{"id":1731,"date":"2019-04-24T19:44:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T19:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2019-04-24T19:49:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T19:49:50","slug":"statement-by-speaker-corey-johnson-on-passover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2019\/04\/24\/1731\/","title":{"rendered":"Passover Statement by Speaker Corey Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTonight marks the start of the Festival of Passover, a holiday that is all about faith, family, and freedom from oppression.&nbsp; Passover reminds us that the struggle for liberty and justice is never ending.&nbsp; We must be forever vigilant to guard against the rise of hate in speech and in action.&nbsp; People of good conscience must speak out to denounce the evil of anti-Semitism much the same as Moses and Aaron spoke out against the injustices and cruelty of the Egyptian Pharaoh.&nbsp; As Jewish New Yorkers gather around the Seder table tonight to retell the story of their Exodus from Egypt after hundreds of years of slavery, I want to take this opportunity to wish all who celebrate this Festival of Miracles &#8211; <em>a Chag Pesach Kasher Vesame\u2019ach<\/em>. May your holiday be filled with joy and peace.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTonight marks the start of the Festival of Passover, a holiday that is all about faith, family, and freedom from oppression.&nbsp; Passover reminds us that the struggle for liberty and justice is never ending.&nbsp; We must be forever vigilant to guard against the rise of hate in speech and in action.&nbsp; People of good conscience must speak out to denounce the evil of anti-Semitism much the same as Moses and Aaron spoke out against the injustices and cruelty of the Egyptian Pharaoh.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2019\/04\/24\/1731\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}