This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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Life On Passover, Rethinking Liberation
Passover always makes me wonder whether life is meant to be hard. This thought starts rearing its head often before Purim, when those who take seriously the mission of spring cleaning are already on schedules of windows, curtain, light fixtures, and the drawers in the corner of the closet that have not been touched since…
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Food Shabbat Meals: An Artist’s Take on Bubby’s Egg and Onion Spread
I have a complicated relationship with egg salad. As a child I consumed it the way other kids inhaled fruit roll-ups. A creature of consistency, I demanded egg salad on challah every day for lunch. Then I went to the doctor, who determined I had the cholesterol of a 97 year-old Kentucky Fried Chicken employee….
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Food Taking a Note From Those With Food Allergies This Passover
When I first went gluten-free two years ago, people regularly asked me: “What on Earth do you eat?” In general, the diets of most people I know are centered around items like bread and pasta, so they couldn’t fathom how I could eat enough to stay alive without eating those staples. The funny thing is…
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Food The Sipping Seder — 6 Cocktails Inspired by the Seder Plate
At first glance one might assume that a Sipping Seder, made up of six potent cocktails inspired by the Seder plate, is simply the grown up equivalent of the primary school’s set’s chocolate Seder — an excuse to over indulge, or a means to induce an alcoholic haze to counter the stress of a family…
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The Schmooze More Israeli Employers Forgo Gifts at Passover and Rosh Hashanah
Bah, humbug! Ebenezer Scrooge seems to have come to Israel this Passover. The big talking point among Israelis during this time of year is what their company gave them. Employers are expected by convention to give employees a gift twice a year, at Passover and at Rosh Hashanah. It’s a longstanding tradition that dates from…
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Books Swimming in the Sea of Haggadot
Image courtesy of Sanford Kearns Crossposted From Under the Fig Tree This year, or so it seems to me, the American Jewish community is awash in new editions of the haggadah, the age-old ritual text that structures the Passover seder. At one end of the spectrum, there’s the stunning Washington Haggadah, a facsimile edition of…
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The Schmooze This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
Jay Michaelson pays a visit to John Zorn’s Masada Marathon at the New York City Opera, and re-interprets the four sons of the Haggadah as characters from “Glee.” Eli Valley re-interprets the four sons in light of the Egyptian Revolution. Philologos has difficulties and questions, both. Meredith Ganzman looks back on the career of Rochelle…
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Life Putting To Bed the Debate Over the Origin of the Seder Plate Orange
Many homes will have oranges on their Seder plates come the first two nights of Passover, starting Monday evening. And there will also be lots of different versions of the story explaining why we put it there. Now Rabbi Andrew Sacks, head of the Conservative movement’s Israeli branch of the Rabbinical Assembly, has laid the…
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