This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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Yiddish World What pre-pesach cleaning was like in the shtetl
The late Mayer Kirshenblatt, from Opatow (Apt), recalls his parents replacing the straw in their mattresses.
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Food This Passover, try a big, glorious spring salad for the karpas
Instead of that sad leaf and salt water, use foraged and home-grown greens
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Yiddish World Children taking part in a Seder while hiding from the Nazis
In Zina Rabinowitz's tale, a teacher keeps the children's fear at bay by appealing to their imagination
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Fast Forward NY attorney general orders car wash to stop ripping off Jews with antisemitic ‘Passover special’
Letitia James’ investigation found that Jews were charged over three times the standard price for the same service
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Books The White House Seder started in a Pennsylvania basement. Its legacy lives on.
A new children’s book tells the story of how three Jewish staffers brought Passover to the White House
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Books Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
Richard Kreitner’s ‘Fear No Pharoah’ takes an unflinching look at how Jews reckoned with America’s founding sin
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Culture In new Passover children’s books include a mystery, Obama’s White House seder and a graphic novel from writer Dara Horn
The springtime holiday inspires stories of family gatherings, from Mt. Everest to an Israeli roadside
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Theater Still in the Passover mood? ‘Exagoge’ is your Seder on steroids
Now at La MaMa, an immersive production draws from the oldest Jewish play
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Opinion A new humanitarian outrage is unfolding in the Middle East. It’s not in Gaza
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Fast Forward A young Jewish organizer takes on Jerry Nadler in a generational challenge
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Yiddish די ווערק פֿון ישׂשׂכר בער ריבאַק מערקן אָפּ, און מאַכן איבער אַ צעשטערטע וועלטThese works by Issachar Ber Ryback commemorate, and transform, a devastated world
אין די אילוסטראַציעס האָט ער אױסגעדריקט זײַן צער נאָך די מוראדיקע פּאָגראָמען פֿון דער רוסישער בירגער־מלחמה.
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Fast Forward Marjorie Taylor Greene may be first Republican lawmaker to call Gaza war a ‘genocide’
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Fast Forward Lithuania scraps years of planning by Jewish groups to convert sports complex into Jewish heritage site
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