Let’s face it: matzo sucks. It’s dry. It’s flavorless. It’s often served stale. It pales in comparison to garlic za’atar challah. But alas, for 8 days a year, we Jews must suffer through meals devoid of bread, pasta and buttery and flakey croissants. Clearly, Forward readers aren’t happy about it — a full 56 percent…
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. Help us settle the great Passover debate: is matzo an amazing food or a true Jewish tragedy? Vote: How do you feel about matzo? — The Forward (@jdforward) March…
We’re less than a month away from Passover, and many of us are already dreaming of fluffy matzo balls in our soup. But like most Jewish traditions, there’s a great debate surrounding matzo balls: That of floaters vs. sinkers. Last year, our food editor Liza Schoenfien took to Twitter and found that 60 percent of…
Like matzo balls, bagels used to be plain — or sesame if you were lucky. There were no pumpkin, jalapeño or asiago-cheese bagels on which to shmear your cream cheese. Now, it’s the matzo ball’s turn to diversify, and Dr. Susan Sandler, a creative kosher cook in suburban Philadelphia, is doing her part: She’s doctoring…
(JTA) — The Manischewitz Co. said it will close its plant in Newark, New Jersey, cutting the jobs of 169 workers. The kosher food manufacturer’s announcement last week came in the form of a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN notice, that it would be cutting the jobs. According to the notice, which is required…
For the first time in years, the Jerusalem municipality is enforcing the law against public displays of leavened bread during Passover at the Old City’s Jaffa Gate this year. Municipal inspectors confiscated the wares of a bagel vendor at the site on Wednesday and prevented others from selling their goods. The bagels have become one…
Gefilte may be the most ubiquitous fish dish in the Jewish culinary lexicon, whether we’re talking about the mass-produced, jarred versions available at supermarkets or the ready-made kind from kosher-style delis and dairy appetizer stores. But it is also the most celebratory fish dish, closely related to the haute-cuisine triumph quenelles de brochet. Essentially a…
Michael Burstein kindly provided the Four Questions in Klingon to those of his readers in the Federation of Planets celebrating Pesach (Passover). The Four Questions In Klingon qatlh pImlaw’ ramvam rammey latlh je? qaStaHvIS Hoch rammey “Hametz” “Matza” je DISop, ‘ach qaStaHvIS ramvam’e’, “Matza” neH wISop. qaStaHvIS Hoch rammey, Hoch tI wISop, ‘ach qaStaHvIS ramvam’e’,…
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