Obama, asking ‘mah nishtana?’ answers that it’s his last White House Passover
Jewish Journal
April 22, 2016
President Barack Obama sounded a wistful note in his last Passover message as president.
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As Passover approaches, longtime OU kosher supervisor sounds alarm on Manischewitz
Jared Sichel
April 21, 2016
Three days before the beginning of Passover, Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz, a veteran mashgiach (kosher supervisor) for the Orthodox Union (OU), filed a lawsuit against Manischewitz and the OU, saying he can no longer stand behind the kosher status of the Manischewitz products he has supervised for 20 years, including its Passover matzos.
Passover frenzy grips Jerusalem market
Jewish Journal
April 21, 2016
Passover eve, for observant Jews, is the deadline of all deadlines, a day by which all surfaces, all cupboards, all shelves have to be scoured and cleansed of anything that even may allude to a leavened product.
Obama to host late Passover seder this year
Jewish Journal
April 19, 2016
President Barack Obama will host a Passover seder this year, but not on either of the nights it is required according to Jewish custom.
5 seder supplements to make your Passover relevant this year
Jewish Journal
April 18, 2016
We get it: Most Jewish families don’t yearn to make their Passover seders longer.
NY mosque hosts seder for Jews, Muslims
Jewish Journal
April 15, 2016
Some 100 Jews and Muslims participated in a Passover celebration at a Manhattan mosque.
A haggadah for a ‘New World’
Jewish Journal
April 14, 2016
Ilan Stavans, whose “The New World Haggadah,” illustrated by Gloria Abella Ballen, has just been released by Gaon Books, feels the time has come for the diversity of the modern Jewish experience to be reflected in the haggadah we read at our Passover seders.
North of Paris, a beleaguered Jewish community dares to seder
Jewish Journal
April 5, 2016
After three firebombs hit the synagogue of this poor and heavily Muslim suburb of Paris, municipal authorities advised the local Jewish community to lower its profile.
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