Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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The Schmooze Bottom’s Up: The Forward Presents A Passover Seder Drinking Game
Mud-drenched snow clumps are melting on the sidewalks, drugstores are filled with pastel candy, and the smell of aging hardboiled eggs is already in the air, and that can mean only one thing — it’s time for Passover. The Passover seder is over a dozen specific steps disguised as a festive meal that is no…
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Community A Look Inside My Mormon-Jewish Passover
Passover is surely the most culturally appropriated religious holiday ever to exist. To the chagrin of most Jews, all sorts of groups have rewritten the Haggadah to suit their own niche beliefs and practices. Christians especially love the seder as they imagine the Last Supper. Passover fits nicely into the Easter season for Christians. Not…
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News Harvard Students Walk A Careful Line To Host Anti-Occupation ‘Liberation’ Seder
The Hillel at Harvard University is sponsoring a Seder this Passover that is aligned with a protest movement critical of Israel, a move that required the students to position the event carefully in order to hold it under Hillel’s auspices. Scheduled for the evening of April 5, the seventh night of Passover, the festive meal…
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Life Hiring Passover Cleaning Help Woke Me Up To The Realities Of American Poverty
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…
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The Schmooze How Do You Ask The Four Questions In Swahili?
Over recent years, a curious tradition has cropped up in many traditional Jewish family seders: The recitation of the Four Questions in a variety of languages. “Jewish children have been reciting the Ma Nishtana for about a hundred generations and…in many different countries,” writes Ilana Kurshan in her book, “Why Is This Night Different from…
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Community What’s So Different About A Persian Passover Seder?
There are two times a year that my entire family comes together — Rosh Hashanah and Passover. Although both holidays have their respective traditions, Passover is particularly special. Exhausted mothers and grandmothers have spent the last month before the holiday cleaning their homes with arduous rigor. They have cooked every day, while also having to…
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Community Healthful And Delicious Wheat Flour Alternatives
Aside from not having any bread during Passover, generally all products containing wheat flour (except for matzo) are also off-limits. This restriction can make preparing many of your favorite recipes more difficult — unless you have some great non-wheat alternatives on hand, that is. Most people use regular, enriched wheat flour (or whole wheat flour)…
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Culture My First Pesach In America — In 1883
This story was originally published in the Forward on April 7, 1936 Once upon a long time ago, 53 years ago in late April 1883, I found myself in my new hometown of New York City, about to spend my first Pesach in America. I’d disembarked from my ship ten months prior in June of…
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