This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Schmooze There Is An Epic ‘Prince of Egypt’ Live Musical Happening In Utah
Hundreds, if not thousands of miles away from you, a group of determined people is putting the final touches on a massive, musical production of the Exodus story. The biblical story is being given epic treatment — in Utah, of course. Tuacahn Center, an arts complex that includes a nearly-2,000 seat outdoor amphitheater, sits on…
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The Schmooze How To Celebrate Burrito Day and Deep Dish Pizza Day On Passover
There is a short passage in the book of Exodus that has beguiled and befuddled rabbinic scholars throughout the ages. It occurs immediately after the burning bush sequence, as Moses, his wife Zipporah, and their son, leave Zipporah’s homeland and travel to Egypt, where Moses plans to demand freedom for the enslaved Israelites. Suddenly, the…
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Food ‘Gefilte’ Film Tells The Story Of The Quintessential American Passover Seder
When is a fish not a fish? When it’s the emotionally charged cultural totem at the center of Gefilte, a short documentary that debuts online this week. Compressing both family and food history into 12 minutes, the film tracks the months-long preparation of gefilte fish for a massive seder hosted by the Hermelin family of…
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Community Would You Try Pizza Brei?
Like 54 percent of our readers, I hate matzo. Sure, I eat my obligatory portions at the Seder, can be cajoled into eating it if topped with plenty of lox, cream cheese, tomato and avocado, and even begrudgingly can admit that matzo pizza is borderline delicious. But matzo brei, the weird Jewish Passover “treat” of…
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Fast Forward Nothing Says ‘Happy Passover’ Like A Photo Of Challah
A chapter of Canada’s third-largest political party sent out a Passover greeting using a photo of a family baking challah – a food that cannot be eaten during the holiday. The Manitoba caucus of the left-wing New Democratic Party sent out Facebook and Twitter statuses wishing its followers a happy Passover in English and transliterated…
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