This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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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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Community A Third Of Israeli Jews Have Had It With The Passover Cleaning
According to a new survey conducted by The Peace Index, 37 percent of Israeli Jews are liberating themselves from cleaning their homes for Passover this year. 63 percent of the Jewish public will clean their homes of all chametz, the survey reports, and 67 percent will eat kosher-for-Passover food both inside and outside the home….
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Community Squaring The Freedom Of Passover With The Struggles Of Life
We talk a lot about freedom at this time of year. Freedom from bondage. Freedom from our narrow places. Freedom from constriction. But what do we do with this talk of freedom if we ourselves feel stuck, if liberation seems impossible? What are the psycho-spiritual implications of that narrow place, the one that feels existential…
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Food Leavened Bread Is Banned In Israeli Hospitals This Week
In Israeli hospitals, visitors were astonished to find their bags rummaged through for contraband upon entry – only in this case contraband was not guns or drugs, but sandwiches and cookies. “The danger is not guns during Pesach, but leavened bread,” said an East Jerusalem doctor. This is certainly proving to be one heck of…
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Food Joan Nathan Will Cook Your Passover Seder – For A Price
No, she won’t cook each meal individually. And yes, it will be part of a mass produced roll-out of Joan-Nathan-branded Whole Foods chow. And no, you won’t have to cook a thing yourself. Nonetheless, for the moderate price of $119.99, you’ll be able to feed yourself and several other loves ones and/or family members things…
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The Schmooze Wall Street Journal Correction: Moses Got Water From ‘The Rock’ Not ‘Iraq’
Filed under: hilarious misunderstandings in the Western Media about Jews, the Torah, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Wall Street Journal has issued the following correction: An absolutely beautiful @WSJ correction today. Happy Passover! pic.twitter.com/U8W2sO6Dus — Amy Spiro (@AmySpiro) March 28, 2018 Though it is amusing to think of a grieving Moses striking the…
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