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Matzot Yehuda matzah factory in Jerusalem, 2019.

Passover 2025: What you need to know about the Jewish holiday

What is the story of Passover, What are its various traditions and rules, And just what dates will it be taking place this year? Here is everything you need to know.

03/04/2025

Passover: What you need to know about the Jewish holiday

What is the story of Passover, What are its various traditions and rules, And just what dates will it be taking place this year? Here is everything you need to know.

22/04/2024

Bnei Menashe tribe in India prepares for Passover by baking traditional Matzah

Members of the Bnei Menashe tribe in Northeast India prepare for Passover, baking matzah and observing traditional rituals, hoping to return to their ancestral land, Israel.

To mark our brokenness this Passover, let’s scale back the matzah on our seder tables - opinion

We often assume matzah represents suffering, but the original design of the seder didn’t focus on matzah’s taste or shape, but rather symbolic power of wholeness - or brokenness.

By RABBI ELIE KAUNFER/JTA
11/04/2024

Passover left you with a long, never ending stomach ache? This is why

In the middle of Passover you were eating matzah for several days. If your digestive system was left feeling abnormal, there's a reason.

By DR. IDAN GOREN/WALLA
05/05/2023

An amended Conservative Jewish Passover policy taps into the booming gluten-free market

Conservative Jews may now buy certified kosher products that have kosher-for-Passover ingredients and are certified gluten-free — even if they aren’t explicitly certified kosher for Passover.

By JACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
06/04/2023

Asteroid the size of 787 matzahs set to pass over Earth on Passover - NASA

Asteroid 2023 FM is a large asteroid that, at a minimum estimate, comes out to 120 meters in diameter. And it's just one of several asteroids to come after Passover Seder.

04/04/2023

Two Russian drones explode near the matzah bakery in Dnieper, Ukraine

The fire that burned the neighboring factory began to spread and threatened to consume the matzah bakery.

01/04/2023
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