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Detail from medieval Spanish Haggadah (Courtesy University of Manchester)

Priceless 14th-century Spanish Haggadah will be big draw at New York museum

Posted under Arts and Culture, Passover on April 17th, 2012. Leave a Comment »

A fourteenth-century Jewish religious book, preserved by experts at The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library, [was] hand delivered to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where it will be on exhibit through Sept. 30. The masterpiece from Catalonian Spain will feature in a special installation called Rylands Haggadah: Medieval Jewish Art in [...]

It's Seder time in Utah in the Passover in the Desert of Moab program. (Jeff Finkelstein)

On Passover, celebrating the Exodus in the desert — in Moab, Utah

Posted under Passover, Religion & Jewish Life on April 10th, 2012. Leave a Comment »

MOAB, Utah (JTA) — How do you open the door for Elijah when your Seder is outdoors in the middle of the Utah desert? That was one of the challenges facing the 260 people who came from all parts of the country to participate in the fifth annual Adventure Rabbi Passover retreat held last weekend [...]

Op-Ed: Keep the SNAP aid program strong

Posted under Opinion, Opinion, Passover on April 6th, 2012. Leave a Comment »

(JTA) — A well-known D.C. maxim advises that any economic stimulus must be timely, targeted and temporary. So as legislators begin drafting the 2012 Farm Bill, why are some proposing to cut a program that responds in direct relation to need, supports recipients for an average of just nine months, boasts an extremely low payment [...]

Colorful cookbook offers potato-free Passover recipes

Posted under Passover on April 5th, 2012. Leave a Comment »

This Passover — think outside the spud with “The No-Potato Passover” (Brio Books), a new cookbook by artist and personal chef Aviva Kanoff. “The No-Potato Passover” combines full-color travel photographs with recipes that run the gamut from Cabbage Soup with Matzoh Meatballs, to Tuscan Tuna Steak with Mint Yogurt Sauce, to Chocolate Chip Biscotti, [...]

How not to feel like a matzah ball on Passover

Posted under Passover on April 2nd, 2012. Leave a Comment »

MONTCLAIR, N.J. (JTA) — It’s April and steel shopping carts clang and collide like bumper cars in the kosher-for-Passover aisle of my local supermarket. Even in this mob I find soul mates, shoppers who share my angst about eating many of the hechshered-for-the-holiday packaged foods. Foods made with what blogger Lisa Rose calls the “four [...]

IDF soldiers raise a glass at ta model Seder on their base. (IDF Spokesperson)

Israel’s army gears up for one of its biggest operations: Passover

Posted under Passover on April 2nd, 2012. Leave a Comment »

JERUSALEM (JTA) — With Passover nearing, the Israeli army is embarking on one of its biggest operations of the year. Whether in the field, on a base or with family living abroad, “every last soldier has everything he needs for Seder night,” asserts Capt. Ze’ev Rosens, rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces Tank School in [...]

Lori Riegel prepares a meal in her newly kashered kitchen.

Recently kashered kitchen gives Tucsonan peace, peek into Passover prep

Posted under Passover on March 23rd, 2012. Leave a Comment »

When I was in the eighth grade, my mother decided to kasher our kitchen. Each summer, after my sister and I returned from Camp Ramah, which was our first experience with kashrut, we’d asked if we could become kosher. In 1985, we were getting ready to move into a house my mother, a realtor, was [...]

Salmon Cakes with Tropical Fruit Salsa

Passover recipes to please the crowd and de-stress the chef

Posted under Passover on March 22nd, 2012. Leave a Comment »

Passover may be the mother of all kitchen yuntifs, but stay cool and don’t stress. Last year, 99 percent of the dishes I made for Passover weren’t actually Passover recipes. Of course they were kosher for Passover, but they didn’t require any major Passover ingredient tweaks. These recipes were developed with Passover in mind and [...]

Zoe Scheffy at her home with her knit Seder table runners, her first design for a knit Seder plate. (Penny Schwartz)

Crafting a memorable Passover with unique ritual objects

Posted under Passover on March 20th, 2012. Leave a Comment »

BOSTON (JTA) — To prepare for their first Passover Seders, Zoe Scheffy, Lesley Frost and Joanna Brichetto drew on their creative instincts: Scheffy pulled out her knitting needles; Frost gathered scraps of felt, braided ribbon and tacky glue; and Brichetto rounded up household items, her kids’ plastic frogs and Beanie Babies. The three women, of [...]

Questionable behavior for after the Seder

Posted under Passover on March 19th, 2012. Leave a Comment »

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Why is the day after the Seder different from all other days? Is it because we are exhausted? Or our clothes no longer button? Possibly. More likely, I suspect the day after is different because of all the newly minted questions that drop into our brains like zuzim, a Jewish currency [...]