This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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Opinion My Hasidic Family Got Into a Passover Fistfight — Over Cake
Lior Zaltzman illustration At the Passover Seder, we read about the four sons of the Haggadah, distinguishing them by the things they say. But the wicked and wise sons say essentially the same thing. Both ask: “What are these practices you keep?” The family of the wise son respects his question, while the family of…
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Opinion A (Third) Seder of Her Own
I ducked the fifth fast by shunning my feminist roots. All firstborn sons are supposed to fast on the eve of Passover to remember that God saved the eldest Jewish boys during the 10th plague; some Jews interpret the mandate to apply to women as well. My mother, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, an un-shy feminist (and…
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Recipes Amaranth, Squash and Herb Salad
This salad is fun, delicious and bursts with genuine Mexican flavors and textures. Photograph by Tami Ganeles-Weiser/The Weiser Kitchen Serves 6-8 For the salad: ½ cup amaranth 2½ cups low-sodium vegetable broth 4 teaspoons salt, divided 4 cups water 3 medium (about 2 ¼ pounds total) frozen or fresh yucca, peeled and cut into ½-inch…
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Recipes Spinach-Matzo Lasagna
Read the interview with Leah. Over the last decade, matzo lasagna has quickly and emphatically entered the Passover mainstream. Its rise has partly to do with the need it fills for a substantive main dish to serve during the holiday’s weeklong bread ban. The other reason for its popularity? It’s delicious, and remarkably so. Softened…
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Recipes Matzo Granola With Walnuts and Coconut
Read the interview with Leah. Breakfast can be tough going during Passover. With toast, bagels, cereal, waffles, muffins, oatmeal and pretty much every other starchy breakfast staple off the menu, the options are seriously limited. Enter this granola. The crumbled matzo that replaces the typical rolled oats gets toasty and crisp in the oven, and…
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Fast Forward Israeli Parkgoers Turned Away — for Chametz
Visitors to a public park in Israel were turned away because they carried food that was not kosher for Passover. The security guard at the entrance to the park in Afula, in northern Israel, was checking visitor’s bags for weapons and for chametz, according to reports. Visitors found to have chametz in their bags were…
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Opinion Jon Stewart’s Right: Easter Is Crushing Passover!
In a Daily Show clip I revisited this weekend, Jon Stewart says that “we Jews are getting our asses kicked” when it comes to holidays. We’ve already lost the Christmas v. Hanukkah competition for kids’ attention. Now Passover v. Easter comes along, and we don’t stand a chance! After all, Jon says, what would you…
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Opinion How an Eritrean Taught Me the True Meaning of Passover
Courtesy of Tekle Tekle journeyed half a year by foot across the Sinai from Eritrea to Israel. He traveled mainly at night, for fear of getting caught during the day. “It was a matter of life and death,” he told me when I asked him to recount his escape. Without a civilian judiciary or democratic…
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