Isaac Lieberman, a Mashgiach, or rabbinical supervisor, removes a flawed sheet of unbaked matzo as they travel on the matzo production line at the Manischewitz manufacturing facility on February 4, 2014 in Newark, New Jersey. Under strict rabbinical supervision at all times and in all stages of production, over 1 million sheets of matzo are produced daily during the height of the Passover season. Image by Getty Images

By The Scribe March 7, 2018

Some Jews love it. Some Jews hate it. But no matter how you feel about it, come Passover, we Jews are biblically commanded to eat it.

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