This is the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.
Passover
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Culture Making Sense of the Holiday Season’s Onslaught of New Haggadahs
● The Bronfman Haggadah By Edgar Bronfman Illustrated by Jan Aronson Rizzoli, 128 pages, $29.95 ● The Artist’s Haggadah By Jane Kessler Petitjean Self-published, 48 pages, $20 ● The Haggadah App David Kraemer, et al Melcher Media, $4.99 on iTunes ● Hakol Baseder By Mitch Heifetz and Michael Toben Gefen Books, 110 pages, $7.95 (Haggadah),…
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Recipes The Forward and Heritage Radio Network’s Passover Special
Passover is almost here and it’s never too early to start your menu planning. The Forward’s Devra Ferst and Heritage Radio Network’s Leah Eden teamed up for this special Passover Food Podcast. Devra sat down with Jeffrey Yoskowitz, Co-owner and Chief Pickler of Gefilteria, to discuss what makes gefilte gefilte. And, Leah chated with Mitchell…
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Fast Forward Moscow Jews Get Emails, Free Matzo for Passover
The Russian Jewish Congress has partnered with one of the country’s leading Internet companies to deliver free matzah to Muscovite Jews. The collaboration with the online marketing giant Vigoda.ru will allow the Jewish organization to send two million emails on Thursday offering the unleavened crackers used on Passover for the cost of delivery – an…
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News Quinoa, Trendy South American Grain, May Not Be Kosher for Passover
On any given day, a wind might blow through the farmlands of South America, pick up an errant grain of barley and deposit it nearby among the vast rows of cultivated quinoa. If that barley manages to make its way into a sifted batch of quinoa, and avoid detection during repackaging, it could wind up…
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Food OU To Certify Kitniot This Passover
The Orthodox Union wants to take the guesswork out of eating kitniyot on Passover. With no kitniyot kosher certification to go by, eaters of legumes and several grains during the holiday—traditionally Sephardi Jews, but now also others—have had to rely on their own judgment that there was no hametz, or leaven, in a food product….
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Fast Forward New Swarm of Locusts Threatens Israel’s South
Swarms of locusts have continued to cross into Israel from Egypt and the Agriculture Ministry is preparing to carry out additional spraying of the insects, which pose a threat to agriculture. Sunday afternoon the ministry reported another large swarm moving toward Ashalim in the northwestern Negev. The ministry staff plans to monitor their movements and…
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Fast Forward Spanish Town Holds First Seder Since Inquisition
A town in northern Spain is preparing to hold its first Passover seder since the areas Jews were forced to flee during the Spanish Inquisition of 1492. The festive dinner will take place in the old center of the town of Ribadavia on March 25 and is being organized by the municipality’s tourism department in…
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Opinion For Those Still Enslaved, Tomato Symbolizes Solidarity
Last year I put a tomato on my Seder plate. I invite you this year to consider doing the same. The retelling of our liberation story at Passover is powerful, but we deepen the sense of the story through tasting it symbolically. We ingest the bitterness of slavery through the maror. The saltiness of the…
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