Every year at the Seder table, our family debates the same issue: Is it permissible to eat soft matzot on Passover? Some family members claim that since there are halachic authorities who view it as ...

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Amid the war with Russia, tens of thousands of Jews in Ukraine celebrated Passover Seder. Chabad emissaries and the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine held public Seders in 45 cities across ...

There is a positive commandment to eat matzot on the Seder night, as it is said: “In the evening, you shall eat matzot” (Exodus 12:18). One must guard the matzot designated for the Seder night in a ...

(JTA) — How might we celebrate Passover differently this year? With so many Israelis brutally murdered on Oct. 7, so many soldiers killed or wounded in battle, so many people — Palestinians and aid ...

Matzah is regarded as “poor man’s bread,” symbolic of our slavery in Egypt, and the lack of flavor emphasizes this. What do Tuscan bread and matzot have in common? Neither of them have salt! The ...

It looks like matzo, it tastes like matzo, but it’s really…. bread. The Chief Rabbinate’s Fraud Division has put out a statement urging all Israeli shoppers to be on the lookout for certain brands of ...

Alina Tirnovienko always ate matzah on Passover back in Odesa, usually celebrating the seder at the local Chabad. Now she is one of the workers making matzah at the Matzot Aviv factory in Bnei Brak, ...