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Passover

A sunflower for Ukraine? A tomato for farmworkers? Here’s why I’m sticking to the basics on my Passover seder plate.

A sunflower for Ukraine? A tomato for farmworkers? Here’s why I’m sticking to the basics on my Passover seder plate.

Published April 8, 2022

(JTA) — Olives. Tomatoes. Oranges. Artichokes. Dates. Cotton balls. And, now, sunflowers. This list might seem like a setup for a logic puzzle or a grocery run. But it is, instead, a (non-exhaustive) list that I have seen of additions to the seder...

(L) Susannah Heschel, who created the ritual of putting on orange on the seder plate in the 1980s. Photo courtesy of Susannah Heschel. (R) Janice Stieber Rous' seder plate. Photo courtesy of Janice Stieber Rous.

The real story behind the orange on the seder plate

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 8, 2022

(JWA) -- Hard-boiled egg—check. Greens—check. Charoset, maror, shank bone—check. These are the traditional seder plate items that represent the themes of Passover. Many people have also adopted the feminist tradition of including an orange... but...

Three generations of Israeli family make a matzah brei you will not want to miss

Three generations of Israeli family make a matzah brei you will not want to miss

Haim Silberstein, Israel21c.orgPublished April 7, 2022

For Passover, ISRAEL21c producer Haim Silberstein begged his mother, Rosie, to share her special family matzah brei recipe with our readers. Haim’s sister, Orna Silberstein, and daughter, Tamar, also joined in the fun. This is nothing like the...

Chickens eating their feed at a poultry plant. Getty Images.

Can’t find poultry for Passover? The kosher chicken shortage, explained

Jackie Hajdenberg, JTAPublished April 7, 2022

(JTA) — The reports are coming fast and furious from the Costcos, butcheries and grocery stores of America: Kosher chicken is hard to come by. Facebook groups offer alerts when shelves are restocked. Some stores are limiting purchases; in others,...

Love in a lunch box: Tips for a new Passover tradition

Love in a lunch box: Tips for a new Passover tradition

SUZANNE EPSTEIN-LANG, Special to the Jewish LightPublished April 6, 2022

Though each of my children has gone through brief phases of packing her own lunch or buying at school, I am, for the most part, our family's lunch packer-in-chief. I estimate that I have packed close to 4,000 so far. It is one of my most dreaded...

Mimi David

Like the Hebrew women of Egypt, focus on the bigger picture

MIMI DAVIDPublished April 6, 2022

How did she know That on this journey There would be Cause to sing — “Ashira Lashem” by Ashira Morgenstern (1983) Sometimes, it’s about seeing the bigger picture. It’s about taking a step back and zooming our focus out, off...

Why so many ways to spell matzah?

Why so many ways to spell matzah?

Menachem Posner, Chabad.orgPublished April 6, 2022

(Chabad.org) -- Matzah, the flat unleavened bread eaten on Passover, is a staple of Jewish observance. Yet, there seems to be little consensus on how the name of this humble but beloved food is to be spelled.In the food industry, it is almost always...

Miriam's Song

Recalling and celebrating the overlooked great women of the Passover story

Rabbi Dr. Neal RosePublished April 5, 2022

The Shabbat before Pesach is known as Shabbat HaGadol, the Great Shabbat. For me, this particular Shabbat HaGadol will be a time to recall and celebrate the all too often overlooked great women mentioned in the Passover story. What these women...

Chabad invites St. Louis Jews to multiple community Passover seders

Chabad invites St. Louis Jews to multiple community Passover seders

Published April 5, 2022

As Passover approaches and the world grapples with the largest humanitarian refugee crisis in decades, the five Chabad affiliate centers in St. Louis region are joining Chabad centers in Europe and around the world in announcing that all are welcome at...

New haggadahs for 2022: politics, pop culture, art, history, QR codes and more

New haggadahs for 2022: politics, pop culture, art, history, QR codes and more

DAVID A.M. WILENSKY, J. WeeklyPublished March 30, 2022

Over the centuries, the Passover seder — and reading from its guidebook, the haggadah — has proven to be among the Jewish people’s most malleable rituals. In the hands of scholars, artists, writers and every kind of Jew in between, the haggadah...

Wednesday's Passover Recipe Spectacular #3

Wednesday’s Passover Recipe Spectacular #3

CHANIE APFELBAUM, The NosherPublished March 29, 2022

This article first appeared on The Nosher. Passover Stuffed Cabbage Rolls There’s nothing like Passover to remind us where we come from. In many Jewish homes, Passover traditions are carried down from father to son, establishing the family’s customs...

Why this Holocaust survivor wears the same hand-knit sweater every Passover

Why this Holocaust survivor wears the same hand-knit sweater every Passover

By Tanya Singer, JTAPublished March 29, 2022

(New York Jewish Week) — Every Passover for the last 75 years, Helena Weinstock Weinrauch, a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor, has worn a vibrant blue hand-knit sweater to the first seder, which she hosts in her Upper West Side apartment building. The...

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