Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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Life How To Host A Truly Inclusive Passover Seder
At its best, the Passover Seder can model the values it celebrates—freedom from slavery and oppression—by disrupting habitual hierarchies and bolstering inclusivity. Unfortunately, sometimes our attempts to honor this sacred mission fall short. At its worst, the festive meal celebrating freedom can deepen the very divisions it seeks to heal. For those who wish to…
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Culture Every Haggadah You Need For Passover This Year (And Some You Might Not)
Passover reflects America. Over the last two decades, two trends have defined American religious life: disaffiliation and spiritual searching. More Americans than ever are leaving the religious denominations of their childhood: Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish communities alike. Each tradition, in turn, is becoming smaller, more traditional, and more conservative (except Catholics, due to the influx…
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Food How Much Is Too Much? The Crippling Cost Of Shmura Matza
According to Chabad.org, more than 1 million pounds of shmurah matzo, or handmade matzo, will be created and sold this year. In fact, when Barack Obama hosted the first White House seder in 2009, shmurah matzo was present. Demand for this tasteless, complicated-to-digest artisanal cracker continues to rise. This matzo is considered extra-special (and a…
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Community The Benefits of Going Bread-Free — During Passover and Beyond
You know that giving up bread is a Passover tradition, but you may not know that passing the bread basket can also make significant improvement to your health. While only a small percentage of the population suffers from celiac disease, research suggests that many more may suffer from symptoms caused by a gluten intolerance or…
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Community If Cleaning For Passover Is Easy, You’re Doing It Wrong
Passover preparation has always been a heavy-duty task. For thousands of years, Jews throughout the world, in every Sephardic and Ashkenazic community, invested serious amounts of time and effort cleaning their homes, kashering their kitchens and sealing away utensils used for chametz (leavened grain products). The Shulchan Aruch (Code of Jewish Law) devotes approximately 40…
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Life 4 Questions Every Feminist Should Ask Herself At The Passover Seder
Passover is a time for learning, storytelling, and appreciating our freedom in relation to years’ past. Yet, for the most part, the texts we read in the traditional Haggadah are dominated by men — we discuss the leadership of Moses, we compare the four sons, and retell the conversations between ancient Talmudic male rabbis. So…
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Food Patron Tequila Is Going Kosher For Passover
Look, I know everyone and their cousin is an amateur mixologist, but four cups of wine on Passover is no joke. It’s time to get serious about what we’re boozing with. This year all of us high-functioning alcoholics can rejoice because Patron is now kosher for Passover. Shots! Margaritas! Unnecessarily complex and overly expensive cocktails!…
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Life This Passover, Check Out The Exodus Secrets In The Met’s Egyptian Wing
NEW YORK (JTA) — I have roamed the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Egyptian wing many times, marveling at sarcophagi, statues of Horus and Ra, and portraits of young men on ancient panels who gaze back at visitors, looking shockingly familiar and contemporary. But on a Sunday just before Passover, I viewed the artifacts as I’d…
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