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Passover

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

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Recipes
Crunchy Quinoa With Sweet Potatoes

Photograph by Michael Bennett Kress Quinoa is the greatest new addition to the Passover pantry. It finally received definitive rabbinic approval for Passover in 2014, after a rabbi was dispatched to Peru and Bolivia to see how quinoa is grown. He learned that quinoa grows at very high altitudes, while the grains that are prohibited…

By Paula Shoyer Apr 1, 2015 | 2 min read
Recipes
Sephardic Poached Fish in Pepper Sauce

Photograph by Michael Bennett Kress This recipe is versatile and can be made with any type of white fish or salmon. You can really kick up the spice factor by adding a tablespoon of store-bought harissa or some more chili powder, hot paprika or red pepper flakes. This dish also can be served as a…

By Paula Shoyer Apr 1, 2015 | 2 min read
Life
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Problematic Passover Reading

Getty images In the Passover story, as in most of the Bible, men usually get the acclaim. So when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt recently published an article highlighting the role of Moses’s sister Miriam, Pharoah’s daughter Batya, and other women in the biblical narrative, it was hailed as a feminist perspective….

By Sarah Brodsky Mar 31, 2015 | 3 min read
Food
The Weekly Dish

Breads Bakery’s new coconut chocolate chip cake. Photograph courtesy of Breads Bakery Breads is rising. The Israeli-owned Union Square bakery, beloved by New Yorkers for artisanal loaves and luscious pastries, will take over one of the Bryant Park food kiosks relinquished by sandwich maker ’wichcraft, The New York Times reports. Chains like Le Pain Quotidien…

By Michael Kaminer Mar 31, 2015 | 5 min read
Israel News
When Israel’s Sephardic Black Panthers Used Passover To Decry Jewish ‘Racism’

It was the spring of 1971, and the 1960’s spirit of revolution still throbbed in the streets of America and Europe. On the streets of Jerusalem, knots of young Sephardi Jews could be seen protesting, too — calling for the overthrow of Prime Minister Golda Meir and for their own liberation in Israel as an…

By Asaf Shalev Mar 31, 2015 | 4 min read
Opinion
The Black Panthers Haggadah

The following is a translation of the Israeli Black Panthers Haggadah With a strong hand, two. And with an outstretched arm, two more. With great terror, two more. With protests, two more. With banners raised, two more. With hunger strikes, two more. These, then, are 10 plagues that the Black Panthers from Musrara brought upon…

By Asaf Shalev Mar 31, 2015 | 2 min read
Breaking News
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Compares President Obama to Haman

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, a prominent American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi, compared President Barack Obama to Haman, the villain of the Purim story. Riskin, the longtime chief rabbi of Efrat, a West Bank settlement in the Gush Etzion bloc, made the comparison during a speech at the Jerusalem Great Synagogue, The Jerusalem Post reported. “The president of the…

By JTA Mar 30, 2015 | < 1 min read
Life
Remembering Infertility on Passover

Photograph by Michal Solomon (JTA) — I recently attended the bris of my friend’s son and it was the first such occasion at which I was not crying tears of sadness for myself. Two years ago I was at her older son’s bris, and I remember pretending my copious tears were of joy. In reality,…

By Amy Klein Mar 30, 2015 | 3 min read

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