so observant Jews will spend the entire Passover holiday eschewing leavened products. Matzo, an unleavened bread that looks like a cracker, is a staple of Jewish households during this period.

(Passover is sometimes also called the Festival of Unleavened Bread for this reason.) Some traditions also prohibit foods including beans, lentils, corn, wheat, barley, spelt, rye and rice.

Instead, during Passover, Jewish people normally only eat flat, unleavened bread called matzah. It’s a symbol of when the Israelites had to flee Egypt in such a hurry that their bread simply did ...

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Here are 10 popular Passover videos of years past: many animated, many musical, not all kid-appropriate. [UPDATE: Plus two more, from Birthright and United Jewish Communities.

Shall I go on, I asked my friend, and assure you that we don't use Christian blood to bake the unleavened bread for Passover? He laughed and shook his head. Very well. Beyond myth and fantasy it ...

During Passover, Jewish people will refrain from eating bread and any other foods containing grains that have risen or fermented, such as pasta or cakes. This is because according to Jewish ...

the new Passover celebration. Then they were to take the blood of the lamb and put it on the lintels and doorposts where they were going to eat the lamb with unleavened bread. The blood was to be ...

Still, it's clear he takes his subject seriously. It was only the discovery that grains could be ground into flour and transformed into bread, he points out, that led early human tribes to give up ...

Since they fled Egypt in haste, the Israelite slaves did not have time for their plain bread to leaven and rise, giving Passover its big symbol, matzah, which is Hebrew for ‘unleavened bread’.

Another member recalled that supply chain delays and restrictions related to COVID-19 led to shortages of Passover products, and that in Manhattan’s East Village, where he lives, “TJ – and ...