{"id":91599,"date":"2021-04-26T11:04:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T18:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599///wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599//www.yesmagazine.org/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599//?post_type=article&p=91599"},"modified":"2021-04-26T13:04:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T20:04:51","slug":"ramadan-celebrations-covid-new-traditions","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599///wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599//www.yesmagazine.org/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599//opinion/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599//2021/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599//04/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599//26/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599//ramadan-celebrations-covid-new-traditions","title":{"rendered":"Traditions New and Old Come to Life for Ramadan Celebrations Amid COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/n

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When I think of Ramadan in Michigan before COVID-19, I remember thousands of people filling the streets of Dearborn Heights during the Ramadan Suhoor Festival. The festival hosted street vendors offering halal food and Quran recitations during the wee hours before fasting begins for the day. In Hamtramck, just outside of Detroit, people would go to local restaurants to pick up iftar boxes filled with Bangladeshi foods before going to their factory jobs or enjoy family-style meals at Bangladeshi restaurants. /wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/n

Across Detroit, you/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/u2019d see long lines of people waiting for fresh, hot, crispy red-orange jalebis (also called zulafis in Bangla), freshly handmade mishti (sweets), and nimki (savory) snacks. During the nights, people would walk to the mosques under the streetlights. In Canton, some people even have a tradition of going to IHOP to have pancakes for their pre-dawn meal. /wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/n

Ramadan is the Islamic month of fasting, charity, prayer, and reflecting for Muslims around the world. This year, it is from April 12 to May 12. But with high coronavirus infection rates in Michigan, my family is celebrating Ramadan cautiously/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/u2014for a second time./wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/n

The pandemic has changed our pre-dawn and iftar traditions. Instead of attending festivals and restaurants, we/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/u2019re looking at food pickup services and limited capacity dine-ins. Mosques will be open for the Tarawih night prayers with limited capacity (some less than half full) following CDC guidelines. Many mosques recommend children and people over 65 not attend at all. People must wear masks, bring their own prayer mats, and social distance. Prayers in congregation will be shortened from 20 to 8 rakats, or iterations. In Canton, some mosques have indoor and outdoor prayer options, while others, such as the Muslim Unity Center in Bloomfield Township, are creating vaccinated-only spaces, but still requiring everyone to wear masks./wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/91599/n

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