This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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Food Julia Turshen on home cooking: ‘Sometimes we don’t feel like it and that’s okay.’
Julia Turshen is the best-selling author of several cookbooks. “Now & Again” was listed as a “Great Read” by NPR and a best cookbook of 2018 by Amazon, while “Small Victories” was named a best cookbook of 2016 by The New York Times and NPR. She is also the host of the “Keep Calm and…
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Community Reigniting charoses traditions
Growing up in Chicago in the 1950s, mine was the only lunch bag that trailed matzo crumbs. On coming to America we lived in a Polish Catholic immigrant neighborhood so I had no friends with whom to compare seder rituals. Despite this, Passover has always been my favorite holiday. No other yontiff rituals compared to…
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Food My grandmother’s brownies make everything better
This Shabbat, we are approaching our second Passover in the pandemic. I feel hollowed out. Empty. I miss my family. I want a large rowdy seder. The unfathomable – holiday without family – has become the routine. I break out an old recipe book, the one my mother gave me at my bridal shower. I…
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Culture Was the Last Supper a ‘Seder?’ And 3 other vital Passover questions, asked and answered.
When we ask at our Seders why this night is different from all other nights, there are the stock responses and the ones we take for granted. We receive explainers on slouching, unleavened bread and why we dip our herbs. We don’t get into what Jesus’ Passover plans were in Jerusalem. In our Haggadot, we…
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Culture How to spend your entire $1,400 stimulus check on Passover food
Your $1,400 stimulus check just dropped in your bank account, and with less than two weeks left until the first Seder, you must be wondering: “How can I spend every single dollar that the government gave me… on Passover essentials?” As much as we love the dryly delectable taste of flour and water and the…
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Culture Artists confront the new plagues of Passover
Jews are uniquely equipped to ruminate on a year of plagues — from time immemorial, plagues have been our dinner conversation. But the pandemic is different. At your Seder, it may not be wise to sprinkle wine for the Makot Mitzrayim (those drips could themselves hold COVID droplets). God’s mighty hand and outstretched arm have…
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Culture Why the new matzah emoji is not kosher for Passover
When you’re typing on an iPhone, the autofill interface tries to guess the next word you mean to type, or finish the word you’re currently typing. This is also how it suggest emojis — type in “fire,” and the flame emoji will pop up, which is very helpful given that there are 3,521 emojis to…
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Food I like Ashkenazi Passover seders, but I love Persian ones
I was in third grade when I experienced my first Hebrew School seder. Of course I had seders every year with my Iranian Jewish family, yet everything about this seder felt so weird to me. Waxy paper cups held what they called haroset— dry chunks of chopped apples and walnuts doused with cinnamon. Haroset is…
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