Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
Passover
The Latest
-
Opinion ‘Tis the Season: Revisiting Jon Stewart’s Passover
With the Festival of Freedom fast approaching, it’s time to take another look at Jon Stewart’s Passover midrash from Nisan 5772 (April 2012). Think of this a followup to last month’s “War on Purim” segment. This time, though, I’d argue that there’s a serious argument behind the humor. To quote him: “Mishpoche, we gotta take…
-
Recipes Mixing Bowl: Tastes of Israel, DIY Seltzer
Bring a taste of Israel home this weekend with this recipe for baked za’atar eggplant fries with lemon tahini dip. B’tayavon! [The Kitchn] …and this pomelo and arak cocktail courtesy of our friends at the Kubbeh Project. [New York Magazine] Is a pastrami and egg sandwich a good idea? You decide. [Serious Eats] …And what…
-
Food Cooking Classes That Teach You To Cook Like a (Jewish) Pro
With Passover looming ever closer, now might be a good time to brush up on your kitchen skills. Luckily there are classes around the country that focus on Jewish and kosher cooking, many of which are taught by well-known restaurant chefs like Michael Solomonov of Zahav and cookbook authors like Joan Nathan. Here’s a round…
-
Food 5 Essential Jewish Cookbooks
The post originally appeared on What Is Your Food Worth. I am not a hoarder. I am constantly trying to simplify, to reduce my house of the “stuff” that has accumulated over my many moves. But the one thing that I keep adding to is my cookbook collection. On a recent trip to Las Vegas,…
-
Life Seder Plate Orange: Now At Pottery Barn
If ever there was proof positive that a once-marginal feminist Jewish ritual is now mainstream, this is it: The latest Pottery Barn catalog touts a new seder plate — holding an orange. The modern, leaf-themed Passover tabletop accouterment has seven compartments. In addition to spaces for the ritual re-telling’s traditional symbols, there’s a leaf meant…
-
News Famed ‘New Hagaddah’ Included Lifted Passages
Jonathan Safran Foer’s best-selling, star-studded New American Haggadah failed to credit original Hebrew text lifted from another prominent Haggadah, the novelist has acknowledged to the Forward. Future printings of the New American Haggadah will credit the older text, Foer said. The lifted Hebrew text came from “The Feast of Freedom,” a Passover Haggadah published in…
-
Life Battling Over Women’s Bodies in Modi’in
This Sukkot, there is a religious battle going on in the city of Modi’in, Israel, and as often happens in such battles, it is being fought over women’s bodies. It actually started this past Passover, when the open, mixed city of Modi’in was inundated with visitors from the neighboring ultra-Orthodox town of Modi’in Illit, also…
-
Life Hamas Chief on ‘Noble’ Women Rabbis
The opportunity to interview the second-highest-ranking official in Hamas came suddenly, unexpectedly and at the very worst possible time: just before Passover. The Forward staff was shorthanded. Worse, at home, we were shifting into full Passover house-cleaning mode. I tried hard to argue for doing this any other week. But Stanley L. Cohen, the attorney…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News What a Secretary of State Marco Rubio would mean for American Jews and Israel
- 2
News Your complete guide to Trump’s Jewish advisers and pro-Israel cabinet
- 3
Fast Forward Trump AG nominee Matt Gaetz has left a trail of antisemitic comments
- 4
Opinion Trump’s first picks are die-hard Israel supporters, mocking the pro-Palestinian protest vote
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Biden administration sanctions Israeli settler group, in move that Trump could reverse
-
Culture Is RFK about to ban goyslop — and what on earth is that?
-
Fast Forward Why Neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the U.S.
-
Yiddish אַ זעלטענע זאַך אין פּאַריז — אַ קאָנפֿערענץ בלויז וועגן די ליטוואַקעסA rare event in Paris — a conference just about the Litvaks
צוליב דעם וואָס ס׳רובֿ פּאַריזער אַשכּנזים שטאַמען פֿון פּוילן, קומט די ליטוויש־ייִדישע קולטור נישט אָפֿט צו רייד
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
