This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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The Schmooze Manischewitz Offered Adam Sandler All The Gefilte Fish You Can Eat, In Exchange For A Song
Comedian Adam Sandler, whose oeuvre contains masterworks such as Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and Paul Blart: Mall Cop, followed by its even more masterful sequel Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, has been propositioned by The Manischevitz Company with an indecent proposal he can’t (but probably will) refuse. The Manischevitz Company saw fit to send the…
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Food For The First Time On The Market, Introducing Shmura Matzo Coffee
If you’re observant, everything on Passover — from ketchup to coffee — requires special certification, which is bad news for people who just can’t start their day without that rejuvenating cup of java. In 2007 the Orthodox Union, that eminent Kosher institution tasked with certifying goods as kosher, declared coffee not automatically fit for Passover…
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Community How To Clean For Passover — Without Losing Your Mind
The intent of this guide is to make your life easier, as G-d intended for it to be. It will hopefully allow you to focus more on the spiritual experience of the Passover Seder night and spend less time, money and energy on unnecessary cleaning and on purchasing expensive certified Kosher products. Even if you…
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Life Historic Lower East Side Streit’s Matzo Bakery Has Found A New Home — In Rockland County
For a century, the Streit’s matzo bakery was a Lower East Side landmark, operating inside converted tenements on Rivington Street since 1916. The last family-owned and run matzo company in America, Streit’s recently sacrificed tradition for efficiency and made its exodus to the suburbs – up north to Rockland County. Their once state-of-the-art machinery, paled…
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The Schmooze Where’s The Matzo Emoji Then?
Despite the best efforts of our friends in Chicago, and the folks at emojidex, there is no accepted matzo emoji. That omission is clearly a result of an anti-Semitic tech conspiracy to oppose the Festival of Liberation. There’s a manila folder, which isn’t a bad facsimile of matzo. ? There’s a parchment roll which looks…
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The Schmooze We Tried ‘JoyBox,’ The First Subscription Box For Jewish Holidays
It’s 2018, and if you aren’t regularly mailing adorable gift boxes to yourself, you aren’t living. I’m speaking, of course, about subscription boxes, a fruit-of-the-month-on-steroids trend where one pays to receive monthly or quarterly packages in the mail filled with themed products — Korean face masks, exotic spices, meal kits — if it’s fun and…
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Food Can Matzo Ever Taste Good? An Interview With The Queen Of Passover Prep
Nine million views isn’t too shabby for a website that’s just over a year old. That’s more Kosher.com views than there are Jews in the world! Kosher.com exploded into the digital stratosphere a year ago, quickly wrapping up views and becoming a mainstay of the Jewish community. The website is chock full of recipes, video…
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Life How I Got Enslaved By A Holiday Of Freedom
The holiday of Pesach is a dance, the ritual choreography of the Jewish people reenacting their flight from bondage in ancient Egypt. But for those of us who bear the burden of the holiday preparations, it often feels like we’re dancing in the wrong direction. It is spring here when we tell our slavery-to-freedom story…
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