Kitniyot: A Lesson in Legumes
OU-D, OU-Fish, OU-P—is there anything left? YES! The OU has unveiled a new kashrut symbol: OU-Kitniyot. This symbol is designed to help those who eat kitniyot during Passover. For background data,...
PHOTO ESSAY: Visit to the Matzah Bakery
The hand matzah you’ll eat the nights of the seder could have come from any one of a number of bakeries, but if it came from the Charedim Matzah Bakery in...
Teaching the Value of Freedom at the Seder
Imagine the following Seder “teaching” technique. (Full disclosure: my wife has forbidden me from actually doing this at our Seder this year. Or any year.) After Kiddush, sometime after eating the...
Writing the Story
Moses is described as the “safra rabbah, the great scribe of Israel” (Sotah 13b). Moses was surely a scribe in the technical sense; as Rambam noted in his Introduction to the Mishneh...
Jewish Law: Selling Chametz
The Torah forbids a Jew, during Pesach, not just from eating chametz but even from deriving benefit from his chametz. Furthermore, there is an additional prohibition of even owning chametz on...
Matzah and Maror
Matzah — The festival of Passover is the celebration of our freedom. Passover not only commemorates an act of liberation in the dim past, but reminds us that the aspiration to...
Passover Recipes With Horseradish
You can utilize horseradish in a bunch of different recipes that can take ho-hum Pesach fare and turn it into to fantastic food that just happens to be Pesach-friendly. The sharp...
The Haggadah: An Eyewitness Account
The word haggadah is related to haggadat edut – we testify that we ourselves left Egypt. Testimony can only be given by the witness not via another witness. Presented by Rabbi...
Geulah and Pidyon
Understanding Rav Elazar ben Azarya’s opinion that one is obligated to speak of the Exodus at night and the difference between Geulah & Pidyon and body & soul. Esther Wein’s new...
Pesach Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yield: 60 cookies 1 cup sugar 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup margarine 2 eggs 2 teaspoons Pesach vanilla extract 1 tablespoon water 1½ cups potato starch 1½ cups matzah cake...
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