This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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Opinion A frat Seder on a party boat taught me the true meaning of Passover
“I hate religion,” the college student told my brother-in-law, Shlomo. “Such chutzpah,” I fumed silently. I had flown down to Nashville to help my sister, Nechama, as she and her husband ran Passover services for the throngs of Jewish students who came to their nonprofit organization for Jewish students on Vanderbilt’s campus, the Rohr Chabad…
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Watch us prepare violinist Itzhak Perlman’s favorite Passover recipe
Many of you know about the Forverts cooking show “Est Gezunterheyt”, which I’ve been co-hosting with Yiddish gourmet chef Eve Jochnowitz for almost 12 years. But we also produced another series, Timeless Delicacies, in which we asked people with Jewish roots in Eastern Europe to share their favorite recipes growing up and then we went…
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Fast Forward White House monitoring political situation in Israel ‘very, very closely,’ senior official says
President Joe Biden is closely watching the volatile political situation in Israel as the government led by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett lost its majority in the Knesset on Wednesday. “We are certainly watching that very, very closely,” Yael Lempert, acting assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs, said in a pre-Passover Zoom call…
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Opinion Matzo at 18,000 feet — what it’s like to lead a Seder on Mount Everest
The 40 years of wandering in the desert were full of unknowns, and like my ancestors, I was in the wilderness
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News Blue and yellow macaroons? Jews find ways to add Ukraine to their Seders
Suzy Appelbaum sees her Passover Seders as teaching moments. This year, even though the Manhattan community activist is not making her own, she was determined to find ways to remember the war in Ukraine in her friends’ and family’s holiday celebration. “Doing nothing is not an option,” said Appelbaum. She was moved by the Hamantaschen…
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Fast Forward AG Letitia James warns Jewish community of discriminatory pricing ahead of Passover
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week) — New York Attorney General Letitia James issued a consumer alert on Friday urging Jews to be mindful of discriminatory pricing practices at car washes in the days leading up to Passover. In previous years, some car wash businesses reportedly raised prices by as much as 50 percent in predominantly…
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Food This old Sephardic recipe will become your go-to chocolate birthday cake
Our all-time favorite family birthday cake is a Sephardi Jewish Passover cake. I got the recipe from my mother’s friend Lucie Ades, whose family came from France and was of Spanish ancestry. I am guessing that they were from Bayonne in Southwest France, where Jews fleeing the Inquisition in the early sixteenth century settled and…
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Community What makes this night different? The story of a hospital room Seder
That the doctor and I washed our hands shortly after arriving in the room wouldn’t seem unusual to the casual observer. Scrupulous hand-washing is common in hospitals. What might have piqued an outsider’s interest was the patient washing his hands. I held a basin over the bed as he carefully poured water from a cup…
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