This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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Food Kitniyot Kosher for Pesach, Conservative Movement Rules
Editor’s note: In 2016, the Conservative Movement ruled to overturn an 800-year ban on kitniyot, the legumes, corn and rice that observant Ashkenazi Jews typically remove from their homes before Passover. Some Conservative and Reform Jews had been happily enjoying kitniyot on Passover for years. Some began doing so once restrictions had relaxed. Others continued…
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News Our Passover is not canceled. But it will be different from all other Passovers.
I just invited more than 30 family members to a Passover Seder. The responses are trickling in slowly but surely. The youngest will be about two months old and the oldest 99. No, we won’t be opening our actual door for anyone other than Elijah. This, dear reader, is our first Virtual Seder. This year’s…
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Culture How to choose a haggadah in the time of coronavirus
One must reach to the darkest chapters of Jewish history to think of a Passover as dark as this one. Across the world, families are in lockdown, living in fear or grief, and coping with profound uncertainty about how long this plague will last. In such a moment, the Passover Seder may or may not…
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Fast Forward London Rabbinical Court allowing some not kosher for Passover products due to coronavirus
(JTA) — Why will this Passover be different from all others? This year, the London Beth Din, or religious court, has created a list of permissible products not made under special supervision for Passover due to difficulties caused by the coronavirus crisis. The Kashrut Division of the court developed the list, titled “Product guidelines in…
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Culture Why Is This Passover Different From All Others? In Iceland, It’s Because The Rabbi Lives There.
On the face of it, this year’s Passover in Reykjavik, Iceland resembled last year’s celebration. Both were held in a downtown hotel meeting room set with a dozen long tables. And both had relatively casual atmospheres, featuring bottled water, plastic silverware and bronze and white paper seder plates. But the two holidays couldn’t have been…
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Fast Forward ‘Passover Fyre Fest’ Leaves Hundreds Stranded After Organizer Skips Out On Bills
Hundreds of people hoping for a fun Passover retreat were left stranded in Florida after the organizer failed to pay for more than $75,000 in goods and services, the New York Jewish Week reported Wednesday. Many Jewish families travel throughout the world for all-inclusive kosher-for-Passover stays at resorts. One experience, called “A Different Pesach Program,”…
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Fast Forward Suspected Arson In Moscow Yeshiva Burns Passover Meals
(JTA) — A fire broke out in a yeshiva in Moscow during the Passover seder on Friday night. The fire at the Torat Chaim yeshiva is believed to have been arson, since swastikas also were found drawn on the entrance to the yeshiva building. About 60 students, rabbis and guests reportedly were in the building…
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Fast Forward How Is This Passover Different From All Others? Mueller Jokes.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report was released Thursday, the eve of Passover. While the report, in which almost 12.5% was redacted, was being reviewed and digested, people across the internet couldn’t resist the glaring Passover puns. Maybe we’re loopy from grocery shopping, meal prepping and kashering our homes. Or maybe the news has finally broken…
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