Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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Fast Forward Trump Calls America ‘A Nation Of Believers’ In Passover And Easter Messages
(JTA) — President Donald Trump offered Passover and Easter greetings. Trump called this a “season of great hope” and the United States “a nation of believers” during his weekly address, released on Friday, in the middle of the Passover holiday. “As families gather in houses of worship across the nation, we are grateful for the…
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Breaking News Jews And Muslims Hold Pro-Immigrant ‘Seder In The Streets’
Hundreds of Jewish and Muslim activists converged on the steps of New York’s City Hall on Wednesday for a Passover “seder in the streets,” pushing Mayor Bill de Blasio and other local authorities to make concrete steps to protect immigrant and people of color communities from President Trump’s policies. Organized by Jews for Racial and…
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Food The Mystery And Fascinating History Of Charoset
The Passover Seder includes a series of symbolic foods placed on a Seder plate, most of which are explained over the course of the meal: the matzo, the spring greens, the bitter herbs, the shankbone… But one element is left unexplained: the charoset, a paste-like mixture of fruit, nuts and spices, with recipes differing wildly…
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Opinion Could Temple Mount Feud Unleash Netanyahu’s Worst Crisis Ever?
Passover came early to Jerusalem this year when a group of Jewish religious nationalists gathered in the Old City of Jerusalem on April 6 for a live re-enactment of the original, biblical holiday ritual: sacrificing a lamb. Hundreds gathered in the Jewish Quarter to watch barefoot, white-robed priests slaughter, skin and roast a lamb on…
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Fast Forward Activists Use Passover To Criticize Israel At Canadian University
Palestinian activists at Canada’s Concordia University are facing charges of cultural appropriation after organizing a “Passover Against Apartheid” event that included a discussion about an anti-Zionist revision to the holiday’s traditional “next year in Jerusalem” blessing. “This is more than Israel bashing. It’s an antisemitic slap in the face to every Jew and I think…
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Opinion Spicer’s Holocaust Insult Just Trump’s Latest Jab At Jews
Earlier this week, Jews throughout the world gathered around dining room tables with family and friends to celebrate Passover. At the Seder meal, participants are made to feel they were slaves in Egypt by recalling one of humanity’s fundamental stories about freedom from oppression. The ancient Exodus story serves to remind us of the ongoing…
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Fast Forward If Ivanka’s Doing Passover At A Ski Resort, Why The Fancy Family Portrait?
If the Kushner-Trump clan are spending the Passover holiday at a Canadian ski resort, what’s the deal with the Twitter photo that Trump posted hour before Passover began of her family at the White House? CNN’s Betsy Klein appears to have cracked the case. That Instagram photo appears to have been taken two months ago,…
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Opinion How Trump Served Us An Extra Helping Of Fear This Passover
Rosa spent five years of her young life being hunted by the Nazis and their accomplices in Eastern Europe. When Nazi troops entered her native town of Lublin, Poland, in 1939, she escaped to Ukraine. Along with her sister and an in-law, she then fled the Kolomiia ghetto in south-western Ukraine in 1941. Many others…
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