This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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The Schmooze ‘Ten Commandments’ for the TV Nation
Crossposted From Under the Fig Tree For decades now, Cecil B. DeMille’s cinematic extravaganza, “The Ten Commandments,” has held pride of place on television screens across America, its timing sandwiched between Pesach and Easter. An invented holiday tradition if ever there was one, the annual broadcast of a nearly four hour film given over to…
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Life What To Do With Your Leftover Farfel: Make Mom’s Granola
My personal Jewish holiday observance is usually acknowledged through the cooking of holiday-specific food: Hamantaschen for Purim, latkes for Hanukkah. While chametz abounds in my cupboard, I have a non-traditional Passover recipe for granola that I regularly make at this time of year. It doesn’t have a place on the Seder table; it is a…
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Food Na’an for You: Where is Indian Food in the Kosher Kitchen?
Gearing up for my trip to India in 2009, I was admittedly more excited to eat than sightsee. The curries spooned over rice, the fiery hot condiments, and the intensely sweet desserts made me salivate in nearly catatonic daydreams. I had, however, only experienced Americanized Indian cuisine — in the array of Indian restaurants in…
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Life On Passover’s Role in Fostering Female Friendships
I hadn’t realized how significant Passover has been in forming friendships in my life. Two different friends reminded me this week about how the holiday was significant in the creation of our relationships. They both bave had such big influences on me that I thought it is worth talking about them both. Dr. Chaya Gorsetman…
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Food Homemade Gefilte Fish 2.0: A Grandson’s Turn
As I suspect is the case with many Jewish families, my family has been in a gefilte fish crisis for as long as I can remember. When a family grows up with homemade gefilte fish from the hands of a Jewish bubbe, and then bubbe deems making the holiday treat from scratch “too much work,”…
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The Schmooze National Poetry Month: Robert Pinsky’s ‘Samurai Song’
Today, in honor of National Poetry Month, The Arty Semite is featuring “Samurai Song” by Robert Pinsky. In the spirit of Passover, one can read “Samurai Song” as a kind of inverse “Dayenu.” It is often asked of the latter text, that if God had not given us the Sabbath, the Torah, or brought us…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Passover Edition Part 2, Plus the World’s Best Restaurants and Post-Passover Falafel Ideas
What happens after Farm-to-Table? Bloomberg Businessweek reports on municipal-wide composting, writing “Farm to table is good. Farm to table back to farm is even better.” The Progressive Jewish Alliance in LA has created an innovative infographic, bringing the Seder plate in to the modern context of food deserts — areas with little or no access…
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Food James Beard Pop-Up Seder Mixes Past and Present Deliciously
The sacrificial lamb of the Passover story rarely makes it into the Passover meal other than as a symbol on the Seder plate. But, by serving it as a main course — smoked, smothered in harissa and sprinkled with fresh rosemary — chef Aaron Israel of Mile End Deli enlivened the Passover story for 80…
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