This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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News Pizzarelle: Rome’s Matzo Fritter
Two years ago, I fell head over heels for a matzo fritter. My husband and I were celebrating our first anniversary in Rome, and through a series of lucky coincidences we landed an invitation to an event hosted by Giovanni Terracina, owner of Le Bon Ton Catering. An upscale kosher catering company in Rome, Le…
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Culture The Passover Cleaning Season Is Upon Us
You know Passover is around the corner when a) you’ve finally finished the last of the chocolate-filled wafers from Purim mishloach manot and b) your friends start kvetching — on Facebook and in person — about the cleaning they have to do. I despise cleaning, and my cleaning lady of several years quit last week…
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Opinion From the Civil War to Our Seders, a Song of Redemption
At every Seder I can remember, our family has sung “Go Down Moses” (“Go down, Moses/Way down in Egypt’s land/Tell ol’ Pharaoh/Let my people go”). As a child I loved it because it was a song in English, and I did not yet know Hebrew. (Most of the fun tunes were in Hebrew.) As an…
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News Passover: The Marketing Miracle
If you were wondering (which, perhaps, you weren?t) how to create the most memorable ad campaign ever ? one that will get stuck in your brain, like the Taco Bell chihuahua; or Coke?s ?I?d Like To Teach the World To Sing? song, or even the E*TRADE baby, except for an extra couple of THOUSAND years…
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Food Jewish Cooking Classes Go Gourmet
Chef Robbie Meltzer of Zola Wine and Kitchen in Washington, DC, is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and a devotee to complex and unabashedly treyf flavors. His infamous “conflict of interest Wednesdays” feature a pork dish paired with spicy matzo ball soup. But once a year his twice-weekly cooking class takes a…
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Food A Different Kind of Smoked Meat
When I grew up in Toronto in the 1980s and early 1990s, a lot of my classmates in day school were the children of recent transplants from Montreal, and they brought with them nostalgia for the Jewish foods of their home city like Montreal bagels and smoked meat. But I longed for a Montreal food…
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Life It’s Still Winter, But I’m Already Cleaning for Passover
Swept into the supermarket on a blast of cold air, my momentary fright is distracted by a tower of sparkling kosher grape and a scarier thought: “What a great price! Better stock up for Pesach.” And this was almost three months ago. Passover casts its shadow chez-nous in the darkest, shortest days of winter. Like…
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Food Kitchen Talk: Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman
There is no shortage of home cooking blogs out there. But Deb Perelman’s Smitten Kitchen, a relate-ably personal, yet eloquent blog, is one of the lucky few to have gained a large and loyal following. In fact, it’s her blog’s popularity — she has about 4 million unique visitors a month — that led Perelman…
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