I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Monday, March 29th.

To our Jewish listeners, I hope you had a warm and wonderful Passover Seder this weekend.

To our Christian listeners, happy Easter week, to our Muslim listeners, Ramadan begins two weeks

from today.

Did you know that?

Last April on the show, when the pandemic was new and locked down at its most intense,

some of you will remember we did a virtual Seder, a virtual Easter service, and a virtual

Ramadan observance on this show when almost nobody was getting together in groups.

This year we're in a very different, somewhat hybrid, even confusing place, right?

One Jewish family I know had a Seder last night, led by a family elder who had about a dozen family members in

their home, around a big table, and then about five other households from the extended family

in much smaller groups, in each case, joining on Zoom. It's one family, but maybe representative

of the hybrid moment we're in, with different people having different vaccination status and different people having different comfort levels, vaccinated or not.

And here we go into spring religious holiday season.

Later in the week, we'll take your calls on how you and your family are observing Passover or Easter this week,

differently or not from last year.

In two weeks, we'll do it for Ramadan when that begins.

Later in this show, we'll compare the persistence of COVID in New York and New Jersey.

They are not the same right now.

Meanwhile, Jewish listeners enjoy the leftover

gefelta fish, and that sinus clearing horseradish. One thing that's very different from last

year at Passover and Easter and Ramadan time, Joe Biden is president. And Anthony Blinken,

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