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kitniyot
Sushi for Passover? With age-old ban lifted, rice is now kosher at seder meal
This year, the Passover menus of many American Jews may feature rice and beans or sushi for the first time, thanks to new rules taking them off the list of foods forbidden during the elaborate meals prepared for the long holiday, which begins on Friday.
Rice and beans for Ashkenazi Jews on Passover?
Seder tables in Conservative Jewish homes may look different this Passover, and it’s not because of a new popular cookbook or changes to the haggadah.
Rabbis expand the Passover menu — but will Conservative Jews bite?
On Passover, Lynne Sandler will be passing on the beans and rice.
Spilling the beans: Another misstep for the Conservative movement
Ashkenazic Conservative Jews living in North America will, for the first time, be able to consume beans, rice and other previously prohibited foods known as kitniyot during Passover guilt-free. Or so they’ve been told by the movement’s law committee, which gave the green-light to these foods last December.
Is Pot Kosher for Pesach?
The Green Leaf Party, a small Israeli political party that supports legalizing pot, announced March 27 that marijuana might not be kosher for Passover.