Passover

This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.

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Is The Mueller Report Being Hidden Like An Afikoman? MSNBC’s Ari Melber Thinks So

Attorney General Bill Barr has announced that he will release Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report — albeit redacted — on Thursday, the day before both Passover and Good Friday. While musing on Tuesday over whether the White House is deliberately trying to stifle awareness of the report’s contents by releasing before major holidays, MSNBC anchor Ari Melber…

By Alyssa Fisher Apr 16, 2019 | < 1 min read
Food
WATCH: How To Prepare A Delicious Passover Breakfast

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts.

By Eve Jochnowitz and Rukhl Schaechter Apr 16, 2019 | < 1 min read
Life
Of Sacred Items And Gorgeous Tchotchkes: The Seder Plate

This is the first installment in a new monthly series, “Of Sacred Items And Gorgeous Tchotchkes,” looking closely at the Judaica items that fill our homes. Growing up, Passover was always my favorite Jewish holiday. Sure, on Hanukkah you got presents and [Rosh Hashanah](https://forward.com/schmooze/320610/rosh-hashana/ “Rosh Hashanah”) meals boasted most of the best food, but there…

By Rachel Klein Apr 16, 2019 | 4 min read
News
Immigrants Make Exodus, Then Find Struggle And New Start In Passover Cleaning

For twenty years, two very different communities have been meeting on the corner of Marcy and Division avenues in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Ultra-Orthodox Jews go there to find cleaning ladies; Latina immigrants to find work. Gloria Puma, 35, is one of the latter, an undocumented immigrant from Ecuador. One morning almost exactly four years ago, her…

By Ari Feldman Apr 16, 2019 | 8 min read
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Amid Grocery Store Worker Strike, Jews Question If Buying Food There Is Kosher

As Passover approaches, the Jewish community in New Haven, Connecticut is debating whether they should still do their pre-holiday shopping in the local grocery store with the most kosher options – but which is also subject to a strike by workers, the New Haven Register reported. Employees at more than 200 Stop & Shop stores…

By Alyssa Fisher Apr 15, 2019 | < 1 min read
Life
Hiring Passover Cleaning Help Woke Me Up To My Own Privilege

Passover is around the corner. This year, as I begin to prepare in Jerusalem, where cleaning products went on sale the morning after Purim and municipal posters wishing everyone a happy spring holiday decorate the streets, I think back to preparing for Passover four years ago, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was still winter and…

By Ilana Blumberg Apr 15, 2019 | 9 min read
The Schmooze
For The Wise Child, A New Graphic Novel Haggadah

If there’s any story from Jewish history that deserves to be made into a graphic novel, it’s the Exodus story. Plagues? A magic staff-wielding superhero-figure? The splitting of the Red Sea? It’s practically begging for it. And lucky for us, someone has found a way to do that – just in time for Passover. Cartoonist…

By Adrianna Chaviva Freedman Apr 11, 2019 | 2 min read
The Schmooze
Maxwell House Is Selling A ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Haggadah

Welcome to America, where the streets are paved with gold, and major coffee brands develop gimmicks around ancient Hebraic texts to court Jewish customers! Maxwell House, the American coffee brand, is distributing limited edition Passover Haggadot designed for fans of the Amazon show, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Once we were slaves, and now we are…

By Jenny Singer Apr 2, 2019 | 2 min read

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Is The Mueller Report Being Hidden Like An Afikoman? MSNBC’s Ari Melber Thinks So

WATCH: How To Prepare A Delicious Passover Breakfast

Of Sacred Items And Gorgeous Tchotchkes: The Seder Plate

Immigrants Make Exodus, Then Find Struggle And New Start In Passover Cleaning

Amid Grocery Store Worker Strike, Jews Question If Buying Food There Is Kosher

Hiring Passover Cleaning Help Woke Me Up To My Own Privilege

For The Wise Child, A New Graphic Novel Haggadah

Maxwell House Is Selling A ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Haggadah

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Is The Mueller Report Being Hidden Like An Afikoman? MSNBC’s Ari Melber Thinks So

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Amid Grocery Store Worker Strike, Jews Question If Buying Food There Is Kosher

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