This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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Opinion This Passover, We’re Joining Simone Zimmerman To Fight for Freedom for All
When the American Jewish establishment went after Simone Zimmerman, Bernie Sanders’s recent pick as his liaison to the Jewish community and a longtime social justice activist and organizer, it made a clear statement to an entire generation of young Jews: If you dare to depart from our position on Israel, you are not welcome in…
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Food Last-Minute Seder Options and All the Dish
If you’re like some of us, you can be, um, spontaneous about Passover dining decisions. Luckily, you can still dash into two NYC locations for flourless items like macaroons, chocolate chip cookies, matzo quiche and salads. And if you’re truly indecisive, kosher-restaurant group Prime Hospitality is hosting Seders at two of its NYC eateries. Prime…
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The Schmooze Get Pumped for Passover With These Song Parodies
With Passover right around the corner, a few clever Jews have come up with some song parodies to get everyone into the holiday spirit. We’ve collected a few of our favorite parodies from the past few years that are a little heavy on the cheese factor, but still hit the nail on the head when…
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Food Almond Flour Pancakes for Passover Breakfast
The glorious holiday when (almost) everything is gluten-free
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Opinion When Ashkenazi Jews Eat Kitniyot on Passover, Is It Cultural Appropriation — from Sephardim?
How do millions of Ashkenazi Jews react when, after hundreds of years, they finally get permission to eat kitniyot on Passover? We’re about to find out. Last December, the Conservative movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards approved a teshuvah, a Jewish legal ruling, permitting the consumption of kitniyot on Passover. Kitniyot — foods like…
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The Schmooze 11 Quirky Haggadot for Everyone at Your Seder Table
Worried about your guests being bored on the first night of Passover? We’ve found the perfect Haggadot to make sure everyone at the Seder table — even the pothead, romance addict and Buddhism-loving Jew — stays engaged and awake until the Afikomen has been found. For the pothead: How has cannabis shaped the Jewish experience?…
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Opinion How To Talk Politics at Your Family Seder Without Killing Each Other
An estimated 70% of American Jews participate in a Passover Seder — in any Jewish religious observance. This year, as we recount the story of the Exodus and symbolically taste the bitterness of slavery, we also must ask what, in 2016, makes this Passover different? At my Seder table this year, as we remember how…
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Culture We Were Aliens in Egypt — and I Still Am Today
The first time I felt a pressing need to visit a synagogue after officially discarding religious observance was less than a year later, in September 2008, while passing through Nashville, Tennessee. My friend Mordy and I had set out on a road trip several days earlier, in anticipation of the first High Holy Day season…
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