This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
Passover
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Opinion Pesach on My Mind
A friend, knowing how dense my Haggadah is — much of the traditional text, my own interpolations, sundry gems from here and there — asks whether by now I can’t just take for granted that the people at my Seder table know what needs to be known about slavery, about memory, about elements large and…
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News Remember Bitter Herb?
About 30 years ago, when Illinois businessman David Brimm’s son was 2 years old, the family turned off the TV just before guests arrived for Passover dinner. Soon the Four Questions were being asked, and young master Brimm piped in with a fifth: “Why did you turn ‘The Smurfs’ off?” The family still asks that…
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News New E-Haggadah Brings a Fifth Child to the Table
Haggadah for the Fifth Child By Donald B. Susswein Mill City Press, 141 pages Pity the humble Haggadah, the never-quite-good-enough book that Jews seem compelled to improve upon each year. ArtScroll’s general director Rabbi Nosson Scherman guesses there are more than 1,000 versions of the Haggadah in print today. This Passover, families seeking an alternative…
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The Schmooze Secretary Clinton Urged To Press Israel To Remove Israel’s New Barrier — Against Foreign Gefilte Fish
As if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doesn’t already have enough trouble with Israel, now this: Clinton is now expected to put some pressure on the Israelis once again, this time not because of the settlements, but because of gefilte fish. Turns out that Israel has imposed a 120% import duty on processed gefilte fish…
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Life About That ‘Gossip Girl’ Seder
Just because the CW network hit “Gossip Girl” took a two-week break at the beginning of the month, producers were not willing to pass over the opportunity to invite its gorgeous cast to partake in a scandal-ridden Seder. Even though Cyrus (Wallace Shawn) sported a “Schmutz Happens” apron, Elijah’s seat got taken over by dinner-crashers…
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Life Offbeat Israel: Why Passover Cakes Are Still Flying Off Shelves
Israel is back to the grindstone this week, with schools open again and many people returning to work after the Passover holidays. But there’s a silver lining — normal “leavened” food is on the shelves again after a week of only “kosher for Passover” products. You see, Passover here takes its toll on the secular…
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Life Those Passover Pounds
New posts by two of the bloggers I frequently check in on — a young woman whose nom de blog is Material Maidel and Elana Sztokman – focus on food and Pesach. Material Maidel, who writes that she recently moved to New York area from “out of town,” is, I would guess from her posts,…
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Life Offbeat Israel: Happy Passover 3322?
Happy New Year! Yes, it’s a little-known fact that for one of the leading Modern Orthodox rabbis in these parts, the start of Passover is New Year. Rabbi Yaakov Medan, a rosh yeshiva or academy head at Yeshivat Har Etzion in the West Bank — considered the Harvard of modern-Orthodox scholarship — follows an often-overlooked…
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