This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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Food ‘Iron Chef Odessa’ — A Passover Cooking Competition in the Ukraine
At the Hesed Shaarei Tzion social welfare center in Odessa, Ukraine, elderly Jews gathered April 20 to compete in a Passover-themed cooking competition— an Iron Chef-type event with matzo as the main ingredient. Hesed Shaarei Tzion, which is sponsored by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, provides social services and Jewish cultural fare to needy…
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Recipes Indian-Spiced Matzo Fritters
If you’re like me, you have so much matzo in the house that you’ll be snacking on the stuff for at least two weeks after Passover has ended. This year, I wanted to experiment a little bit and find a different way to enjoy the abundance of leftover unleavened bread. These fried balls of matzo…
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Culture How Great Adventure Goes All-In Orthodox for Passover
(JTA) — Pinchas Cohen spent most of Monday wandering around Six Flags Great Adventure under a blazing sun, wearing a knee-length black coat and carrying a big box of shmura matzah under his arm. An imposing, Russian-born Chabad-Lubavitch Hasid who now lives in Brooklyn, Cohen came to this amusement park in New Jersey with his…
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Opinion We’re Celebrating Passover. Where Is Hope for Peace in Israel, Freedom and Progress?
Passover had a certain bittersweet cast to it this year. I don’t think I’m the only one who felt it. It’s always been a joyous time: a family reunion, a festive meal, a chance to catch up with loved ones, to sing together, swap stories and talk about big ideas. Someone at our Seder table…
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Food Matzo Ice Cream and All the Dish
Last week, Dish told you about The Matzo Project, a new artisanal-matzo brand from two Brooklyn pals. Now, the same duo’s behind — wait for it — matzo ice cream. The Land of Milk and Honey is Ample Hills Creamery salted honey ice cream paired with The Matzo Project’s cinnamon-bun matzo buttercrunch, which mixes white…
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Food Most Magnificent Matzo
Only the most beautiful matzo in the world could have compelled me to stop greeting my Passover guests and instead go grab my camera and set up a photo shoot, just as friends and family were arriving for our Seder Friday night. But when Chelsea Miller — dear friend, former babysitter for our boys and…
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Fast Forward Thousands Attend Passover Priestly Blessing Rite at Western Wall
Tens of thousands of people gathered at the Western Wall for the traditional Priestly Blessing. The worshippers – estimated by the office of the rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites in Israel at 50,000 – converged on Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday for the blessing, called Birkat Kohanim in Hebrew, during the second…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Sounds Wistful Note on Final Passover at White House
President Barack Obama sounded a wistful note in his last Passover message as president. “Mah nishtana halailah hazeh?” said the White House statement released Friday, hours before the start of the holiday, using the Haggadah’s phrase, reserved for the youngest child at the seder meal, who asks “Why is this night different from all others?”…
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