This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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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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Community The Mystical Reason Jews Rush To Get Married Before Passover
It is definitely that time of year again. Aside from receiving numerous envelopes which ominously read “Important Tax Document Enclosed,” the typical ultra-Orthodox Jewish mailbox is filed with an equally anxiety-producing sort of correspondence this time of year: A deluge of wedding invitations. Since the beginning of February, my family has received five ivory envelopes…
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Recipes This Passover Survival Guide Is Everything
Passover is a rough time of year. Deep down, all Jews know this. It is when we ask ourselves the four questions: 1.Why do we bother? 2.Why do we bother? 3.Why do we bother? 4.Why do we bother? If this is that time of the year when you begin to contemplate divorce or conversion to…
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