This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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Yiddish World What pre-pesach cleaning was like in the shtetl
The late Mayer Kirshenblatt, from Opatow (Apt), recalls his parents replacing the straw in their mattresses.
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Food This Passover, try a big, glorious spring salad for the karpas
Instead of that sad leaf and salt water, use foraged and home-grown greens
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Yiddish World Children taking part in a Seder while hiding from the Nazis
In Zina Rabinowitz's tale, a teacher keeps the children's fear at bay by appealing to their imagination
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Fast Forward NY attorney general orders car wash to stop ripping off Jews with antisemitic ‘Passover special’
Letitia James’ investigation found that Jews were charged over three times the standard price for the same service
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Books The White House Seder started in a Pennsylvania basement. Its legacy lives on.
A new children’s book tells the story of how three Jewish staffers brought Passover to the White House
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Books Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
Richard Kreitner’s ‘Fear No Pharoah’ takes an unflinching look at how Jews reckoned with America’s founding sin
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Culture In new Passover children’s books include a mystery, Obama’s White House seder and a graphic novel from writer Dara Horn
The springtime holiday inspires stories of family gatherings, from Mt. Everest to an Israeli roadside
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Theater Still in the Passover mood? ‘Exagoge’ is your Seder on steroids
Now at La MaMa, an immersive production draws from the oldest Jewish play
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Culture Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
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News Who was Horst Wessel, and why are people comparing Charlie Kirk to him?
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Antisemitism Decoded Israel is being blamed for Charlie Kirk’s death. Here’s what that conspiracy theory says about the far right’s divide
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Fast Forward ‘Murdered for speaking truth’: Netanyahu and US Jewish leaders mourn Charlie Kirk
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