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Every year we go to the home of one of the families in our Havurah (”group”) from the temple for a seder. We have been getting together for most Jewish holidays with these five other families for about 11 years now. Last year at Passover we were amazed at how we “suddenly” had all of [...]

She-bkhol ha-layloht anu okhlin chameytz u-matzah, chameytz u-matzah. She-bkhol ha-layloht anu okhlin bayn yoshbin uvayn msoobin, bayn yoshbin uvayn msoobin. Ha-lahylah ha-zeh, ha-lahylah ha-zeh, koolanu msoobin? Why is this night different from all other nights? Why is it that on all other nights during the year we eat either bread or matzoh, but on this [...]

Monday will hit before anyone can make it to Seattle’s Jewish bookstore (yes, singular) and the Haggadot will probably be picked-over, anyway, and we really don’t want to buy something we don’t like very much. If anyone here has a link to a complete, fairly traditional, but not too complicated, Haggadah with both English and [...]

Because corn syrup is made from one of the five no-no grains, it’s considered chametz and is therefore forbidden during Passover (along with anything made from wheat, oats, barley, rye, and spelt). While Georgetown’s food columnist, she investigated the cafeteria’s omelet station, Hoya coffeeshop’s cultish pumpkin muffins, and what exactly the basketball players ate. They [...]

The most widely celebrated Jewish festival, Passover (which begins at sundown April 19), also known by its Hebrew name Pesach, commemorates the ancient Israelites’ liberation from Egyptian slavery. At a Passover Seder, a celebratory meal, the story of the exodus is retold through readings, rituals and symbolic foods. While some foods, such as matzo and [...]