Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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Fast Forward This Year’s Most Heartwarming Seder Story Comes Via Twitter
Samantha Gross, an American intern at the London Evening Standard newspaper, told her heartwarming story on Twitter where she first found her Seder. 1. Today, something incredible happened. And I will tell this story via Twitter, which is fitting for how this incredible thing came to be. — Samantha J. Gross (@samanthajgross) April 10, 2017…
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Opinion A Very Klingon Passover — Starting With The 4 Questions
Michael Burstein kindly provided the Four Questions in Klingon to those of his readers in the Federation of Planets celebrating Pesach (Passover). The Four Questions In Klingon qatlh pImlaw’ ramvam rammey latlh je? qaStaHvIS Hoch rammey “Hametz” “Matza” je DISop, ‘ach qaStaHvIS ramvam’e’, “Matza” neH wISop. qaStaHvIS Hoch rammey, Hoch tI wISop, ‘ach qaStaHvIS ramvam’e’,…
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Food Trumps Skip White House Seder — Ivanka Posts Passover Message
Having posted Sunday that President Donald Trump would be hosting a Seder at the White House Monday evening for the first night of Passover, I was somehow not surprised to read that he was, in fact, a no-show. First daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, who are Jewish, were not in attendance either….
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Food Gorgeous Gefilte From Joan Nathan’s New Book
For centuries, Jewish women schlepped to the fish market, choosing the best fish “by the look in its eyes” before transforming it into the quintessential Sabbath gefilte fish. Using a wooden bowl and a half-moon-shaped chopper, they cut up the fish with onions, crying a little, chopping a little, until the mix was just the…
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Recipes Joan Nathan’s Georgian Beef Stew With Red Peppers (Salyanka)
As I first bit into this delicious Georgian beef stew, I was intrigued by the fact that, as with many early Jewish recipes I have found around the world, the beef, often a tough inexpensive cut, is first boiled in water until it is almost tender and then layered with flavor from onions, spices, and…
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Fast Forward Are San Francisco Jews Heading Back To Egypt For Passover?
Why is Moses heading back to Egypt for Passover? This is the question visitors to the Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties center and webpage are asking after seeing the JCF Passover message with Moses facing toward, not away from, the Egyptian pyramids. Maybe he had…
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Fast Forward Jewish Family Scores $11K Windfall Getting Bumped From Pre-Passover Flights
As airlines overbooked flights before Passover (and for good measure, Easter, too), one Jewish family in New York made off like bandits from the travel chaos – giving up seats on two flights in exchange for $11,000 in compensation. Laura Begley Bloom – along with her husband and daughter – were set to fly Delta…
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Fast Forward The Oldest Active U.S. Aircraft Carrier Is Hosting A Passover Seder
Think organizing a Passover Seder is hard work? Try doing it in the middle of the ocean. Lt. Nicholas Fritzhand, a weapon-systems officer, will be conducting a Passover Seder aboard the U.S.S. Nimitz, the oldest active U.S. aircraft carrier, on April 10. The Seder, conducted 500 miles from shore in the middle of the Arabian…
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