This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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Culture All The 2014 Haggadah Info You’ll Ever Need
Remember 2011? Back then, I breathlessly wrote in these pages about a new Haggadah that was online. And then, last year, a Haggadah app for your ipad. Remember when that was new? This year, for the first time, the majority of new Passover Haggadot are no longer on paper. And yet, oddly enough, I found…
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Recipes Move Over Elijah! Julia Child Is Coming to Seder
Your bread may be swept away, the table set and macaroons purchased, but it really isn’t Passover until the aroma of brisket fills the house. On a holiday without freshly baked challah, no other scent compares to the nostalgic smell of slow cooked tender meat atop a bed of vegetables or nestled into a thick…
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Food The Seder Plate: Exodus from the Climate Crisis
Why is this night different from all other nights? Because tonight we can choose the destiny for our children, and for ourselves, whereas back in the time of Pharaoh we were oppressed. This year, think about your own enslavement and what you can do to change the course of your life and the world you…
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The Schmooze The JDate Haggadah
Do you want your Seder to be “the talk of the town through the end of 5774?” Of course you do. And JDate has your back (though you may have to cling to the thought that “all publicity is good publicity”). For the second year in a row, the online answer to all Jewish mothers’…
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Food A Complete Seder in a Box — Matzo Balls Included
Why is this box different from all other boxes? Because it contains an entire seder dinner. From Houston, Texas. If you now feel like the son who does not even know how to ask a question, let us explain. Houston’s Kenny & Ziggy’s, which “Save the Deli” author David Sax proclaimed “one of the best…
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Opinion Romemu Bans ‘Email Chametz’ on Passover
We’ve all felt it. That ever-present desire — compulsion, really — to check and then recheck our email. Just one more hit of the refresh button. Just one more scroll. Just one more reply-all. Just one more delete. We love it. And we hate it. Most of the year, we bemoan but ultimately accept the…
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Food Passover Prep: The Best Chametz To Eat in NYC
I’m just going to say it: I love bread. If it were socially acceptable, there’d be a baguette sticking out of my purse at all times. A bagel with cream cheese and nova is on my last meal short list and bread pudding makes my knees go weak. I’m a fan of all of bread’s…
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Food Liberating Message of Raw Passover
What would it be like to live the life you love, and live it powerfully? Sometimes, choosing to incorporate or eliminate certain foods can make all the difference. How does the word “raw” connect to Passover? In the desert we were inexperienced. The weather made our skin raw. We experienced gut wrenching raw fear, and…
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