"Somerville News Weekly" doesn't understand Jewish holidays

[ron_newman]

This week's print edition of The Somerville News Weekly, a local alleged newspaper, has Happy Easter & Happy Passover as its main above-the-fold headline. Nobody there bothered to learn that Passover starts a month later than Easter this year, on the evening of April 22.

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[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

Holidays always get reused and syncretized. I mean, look at the word "Easter": "From Old English ēastre, apparently from Ēastre, the name of a goddess whose festival was celebrated at the vernal equinox, from Proto-Germanic *Austrǭ."

[ron_newman]

Whereas in many other languages. the word for today's holiday is something similar to "Pasqua" or "Pâques" which derive from "Pesach".