This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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Opinion Should I Die for Passover?
Photo credit: Getty Images This week is prime time for Passover shopping and cleaning. But in Jerusalem, hundreds of people will be engaged in a very different type of preparation for the festival — witnessing the slaughter of a lamb, just like in the olden days. The Seder has its origins in ancient times, when…
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Food Food for Thought: Debating Kosher Ethics
Most Jewish holidays have food as a central component of the celebration-from latkes on Hanukkah to misloach manot on Purim and blintzes on Shavuot. Yet, Passover, through the Seder and the full-scale flip from “chametz” to “matza” (from eating leavened foods to eating foods devoid of all leaven), makes food and eating an essential focus…
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The Schmooze Russian Billionaire Books 111 Hotel Rooms for Israel Passover Bash
Roman Abramovich intends to celebrate Passover in style. For the Jewish Russian billionaire, this involves booking 111 hotel rooms in a Negev desert hotel, to celebrate the holidays with friends and family. Quaint. Understated. Intimate. Abramovich is a repeat Passover bash offender. In 2009, he rented an entire floor of the Royal Beach Hotel in…
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Opinion What I Learned From Passover in Poland
A Passover Seder in prewar Europe. Every other spring, the Zionist-Socialist youth movement Hashomer Hatzair takes its bogrim, the group of usually 16-year-old leaders from around the world, on a weeklong trip to Poland. When it was my turn in 2006, the dates fell on Passover. The nine of us from Vienna boarded a night…
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Recipes Passover Sweets — The Best Recipes on the Web
Food52/James Ransom Making a delectable Passover dessert is a challenge worthy of appearing on Iron Chef — no leavening, no flour, and if your Seder has meat, no butter. Fortunately, our favorite food sites and cookbook authors have suggestions and recipes for sorbets, toffees and an irresistible sweet matzo brei that can double as dessert….
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Food Cook the Book: Let My Children Cook
Don’t worry if you are too tired to cook again after the Seders this Passover. Thanks to a new cookbook by Tamar Ansh, you can let the kids take over the kitchen for the rest of the weeklong holiday. They won’t necessarily prepare fancy dishes made with organic and locally sourced ingredients, but with the…
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Fast Forward Interfaith Group Sends 100 Tons of Passover Matzo to Russia
An interfaith group sent over 100 tons of matzahs from Israel to 100,000 Jews in the former Soviet Union. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews arranged to have the matzahs that were baked in Jerusalem shipped to Jewish communities in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, the head of the…
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Food Fair Trade Chocolate Charoset
SHEHECHIYANU! We can finally eat chocolate on Passover that’s been certified not to have been made with trafficked child labor! Why is this so important? Every Passover we gather as family and community, to celebrate our people’s freedom. We are obligated to tell the story of the Exodus, our journey from slavery to liberation. As…
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