This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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Community Half Of Our Readers Hate Matzo And They’re Not Wrong
Let’s face it: matzo sucks. It’s dry. It’s flavorless. It’s often served stale. It pales in comparison to garlic za’atar challah. But alas, for 8 days a year, we Jews must suffer through meals devoid of bread, pasta and buttery and flakey croissants. Clearly, Forward readers aren’t happy about it — a full 56 percent…
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Community What Kind Of Wine Are You Having At The Passover Seder?
Of all of the Passover traditions, the obligation to have four cups of wine (or grape juice) at the Passover seder might be the most controversial. Yes, even more hotly debated than sinkers vs. floaters. More essential than whether or not matzo is to be suffered or savored. While there are many varieties of kosher…
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Community The Great Matzo Ball Debate: Do You Prefer Floaters Or Sinkers?
We’re less than a month away from Passover, and many of us are already dreaming of fluffy matzo balls in our soup. But like most Jewish traditions, there’s a great debate surrounding matzo balls: That of floaters vs. sinkers. Last year, our food editor Liza Schoenfien took to Twitter and found that 60 percent of…
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Life A Very Forward Passover Guide To All Things Wine And Booze
There’s so much more to Pesach alcohol than your grandfather’s Silvovitz (or Arak if you’re Sephardi) and the four cups of wine during the Seder. First, some ground rules: Jews are biblically prohibited from consuming chometz, products that contain even a speck of wheat, barley, rye, oats or spelt, during the 8 days of Passover….
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Neighbors Rally Against Hasidic Matzo Factory
(JTA) — The residents of a Brooklyn neighborhood demonstrated against the smoke coming from a local matzah factory. Dozens of members of the South 5th Street Block Association in Williamsburg protested Sunday against the Congregation Satmar’s factory. The residents told WPIX-TV that the factory spews what they described as toxic coal smoke, which is so bad…
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Food The One And Only Kosher For Passover, Fairly Traded Chocolate
The only formally certified fair trade and kosher for Passover chocolate of recent years, no longer exists, exactly. In 2013 some of the chocolate bars made by the fair trade Equal Exchange Chocolate were certified kosher for Passover. This first-ever Passover kosher/fair trade certified chocolate combo resulted from a project initiated by Ilana Schatz, Founding…
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Food Speedy, Spicy Seder
Whenever I attempt to put a fresh twist on a Passover Seder — eschewing brisket for something lighter, faster and more modern — I watch the faces of my children fall. Brisket is their favorite; brisket, apparently, is forever. I’ve never attempted to host a Seder without matzo ball soup, but it’s no secret that…
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Food 4 Kosher Wines — And One Tequila — You Have To Try This Year
The 2,500 attendees of the 2018 Kosher Food and Wine Experience in New York City collectively guzzled more than 1,000 bottles of wine over the course of an afternoon and evening. While I didn’t personally sample quite that many, I made it my mission to discover the best-of-the-best and underrated wines in order to help…
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