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Passover

Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.

Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach.

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Americans for Peace Now Calls Illegal Israeli Settlements ‘Plague’

Americans for Peace Now called the expansion of Israeli settlements a “plague” in a Facebook post. On March 30, the group posted a photo to its Facebook page showing the expansion of the West Bank settlement of Modiin Illit between 1997 and 2014. Evoking the upcoming Passover holiday, the photo featured a caption calling the…

By JTA Apr 3, 2015 | < 1 min read
The Schmooze
Who Buys All That Hametz?

(JTA) — Ever wonder how the Israeli government gets rid of its chametz, or leavened foods, at Passover? For the past 15 years it has been symbolically selling all the chametz from state-owned companies, the prison service and Israel’s national emergency supply to Hussein Jabar, an Arab-Israeli resident of Abu Ghosh. It then buys it all…

By Julie Wiener Apr 3, 2015 | < 1 min read
Food
Is Horseradish the Real Bitter Herb?

Thinkstock Only a Jewish plant lover with a penchant for the unusual could get naches from maror, the bitter herbs of Passover. These are the plants never named in the Bible except as merorim (singular, maror), which the Haggadah tells us to eat as a bitter reminder of the embittered lives of our enslaved ancestors…

By Jo Ann Gardner Apr 3, 2015 | 5 min read
Food
Who Still Makes Gefilte Fish?

Whitefish finally in hand, it’s time to make the gefilte fish. Thinkstock Like the fixings needed to make gefilte fish from scratch, I’m feeling like a fish out of water. Question to my fellow balabustas busting a gut to gut our homes of chametz: Does anyone still make their own gefilte fish? Are those of…

By Dorothy Lipovenko Apr 3, 2015 | 3 min read
Recipes
A Seder Meal That Celebrates Its Sources

Sea fish with spinach and green garlic. Photographs by Dan Peretz Ohad Levy’s restaurant sits atop a ridge, above lush green slopes. Below, a narrow, dusty road stretches away past some low houses, olive and banana groves and a few scattered fish ponds. Then comes another road that stretches down to the sea. The restaurant,…

By Hedai Offaim Apr 2, 2015 | 5 min read
Culture
10 Ways to Make a More Modern Seder

The modern American Seder is as varied as the families who gather to celebrate it. There are more than 1,600 Haggadot to choose from, including a hip-hop version for those who want to rap their Seder tunes, an ecological Haggadah that asks us to consider the trees and a 30-Minute Seder that has you nibbling…

By Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic Apr 2, 2015 | 4 min read
Life
A Poet’s Lens Into a Violent Marriage

Photograph courtesy of Jehanne Dubrow The Arranged Marriage is Jehanne Dubrow’s powerful new volume of poetry, and it bears witness to her Jewish Honduran mother Jeannette’s complicated life story. Her family left Germany in the late 1930s for Honduras, and Jeannette was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1946 for medical reasons. Immediately after the…

By Judy Bolton-Fasman Apr 2, 2015 | 4 min read
Opinion
The Elusive Search for the Ideal Seder

Like many American Jews, I attend a Seder each year. And like many American Jews, I often end the evening both in awe of the tradition and with a few ideas on how I could make the next Seder a little bit better. Less salt in the soup. How can I get everyone to sing?…

By Elissa Strauss Apr 2, 2015 | 3 min read

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