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Making Matzo in a Chametz-Free Zone

Bread of Affliction: No more than 18 minutes can pass from the time water and flour are mixed to the matzos get baked. Image by getty images

By Jon Kalish April 9, 2012

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From the Kalish archives: In a story that originally aired on WNYC, Jon Kalish takes us inside a Shmura matzo bakery in Boro Park, Brooklyn.

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Jon Kalish is a Manhattan-based writer and radio journalist.

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