This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
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Food How To Host an Elegant Vegetarian Seder
Whether it’s eating a fish head on Rosh Hashanah or mom’s turkey on Thanksgiving, traditional holiday foods are often not vegetarian friendly. Meat consumption on holidays is deeply embedded in Jewish tradition, where Maimonides and others propagate the idea that one cannot properly observe a holiday or celebration without consuming meat. Even the seder plate…
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Food At This Seder, It’s All About the Chocolate
Rabbi Adam Schaffer, who’s been leading chocolate seders since he edited a chocolate seder haggadah in 1996, acknowledges that “people often do feel ill” from all the chocolate. Still, Schaffer, the religious school director at Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills, Calif., says he was motivated to “experiment outside the box and engage college students who…
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Recipes Tamar Adler’s Fried Jewish Artichokes
I believe there are certain things to which we are each driven, like lemmings to their cliff. Probably the most curious of mine is a tenacious pull to cook unrealistic dishes I’ve never cooked before, at bad times. These attacks are particularly acute at holidays, when all the cousins -nth removed are coming and there…
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Food Gefilte Fish With a Human Face
Occupying a prominent place in the dustbin of Jewish history is the Pittsburgh Platform of 1885, the founding document of Reform Judaism — the one that abolished the kosher laws, kippot, tallitot and bar mitzvahs, and renounced Zionism. The reaction against the Pittsburgh Platform was fierce and immediate — the nearly instantaneous founding of Conservative…
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Food Passover Dessert Staple Won’t Appear on the Shelves
Months after super storm Sandy, the full extent of the damage is still coming to light. This year, customers around the country scouring local grocery stores for their favorite Passover sweets will be sorely disappointed. Shabtai Gourmet, a company that provided gluten-free kosher for Passover cakes and cookies — including favorites like rainbow cookies, cupcakes,…
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Food A Virtually Nosh and Stroll Tour of New York
On Sunday morning, a crew of folks who were bundled up and ready to learn (and eat) gathered for the Eldridge Museum’s Passover Nosh and Stroll. Amy Steinmilford and Hanna Griff-Sleven co-led the tour, which included stops at historical Jewish buildings and favorite food artisans around New York’s Lower East Side. Scroll over the pictures…
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The Schmooze Passover, "Les Mis" Style
“Les Miserables” is an epic tale of suffering, oppression, and one man’s quest to find himself. Is it just me, or have we heard that story before? No, sadly, Victor Hugo was not a secret Jew. But Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, who wrote the lyrics of the famous musical, are. Schönberg was born in…
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Food The Great (Passover) Dessert Challenge
French-trained pastry chef Francois Payard thought he had done his homework when he opened his first patisserie in New York in 1997, but he soon realized that the learning curve might be a bit steeper than he’d anticipated. That year he stocked the display cases with a surplus of Easter-friendly confections, anticipating a rush of…
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