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Passover as Engine That Helps Drive the Kosher Industry

By:

Roger Horowitz

Passover brings Jews together -- across generations, denominations and distances -- as we travel to see parents, children, aunts, uncles and friends at our annual seders. Three-quarters of the Philadelphia-area's Jewish households will participate in a seder next week, according to a 2009 study sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. Much of this holiday is about food --...

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Finding the Way Out of Egypt With Gender as Her Guide

For most of my life, when Pesach arrived, I would try, as the Hagaddah instructs, to think of myself as someone who had personally gone out of Egypt -- and fail. My problem wasn't that I was a comfortable, middle-class American Jew rather than the beaten, starving, abject heir of 400 years of enslavement. No, the problem was that I...

Passover

Who Wants Seconds? Seder Number Two Gets Reimagined

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Bryan Schwartzman

After prepping for Passover by preparing matzah-ball soup, kugel and everything in between, Shelley Chamberlain of Cheltenham is more than happy to sit back for a catered second seder at her synagogue. Growing up in a Reform home in Pittsburgh, the now 52-year-old said that her family almost never took part in two seders: One was considered enough. After all,...

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Savoring the Seder Symbolism

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Linda Morel, Jewish Exponent Feature

WHAT'S COOKING? The first time we hosted Pesach, I was so busy cooking that I neglected the most essential part of the meal -- the seder's ceremonial foods. "Did you buy horseradish root?" my husband asked. "Isn't the bottled stuff good enough?" I replied. "Yes, but I like a real root on the seder plate," he said. "And where is...

Passover

Can You Sell 'Chametz' to Just About Anyone?

Editor's Note: The following is adapted from MyJewishLearning.com's weekly "Ask the Expert" columns. Q: I'm a college student and I want to sell my chametz for Passover. One of my suitemates isn't Jewish. Can I just sell my chametz to her? How do I do it? -- Shayna, College Park A: As you may know, on Passover, Jewish law prohibits...