There was a definite connection between the procurement of Matzot for Passover for the beleaguered Jews of the Soviet Union and their struggle for liberation from oppressive rule. An announcement made ...

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In the list of instructions at the beginning of the Haggadah the three matzot are always mentioned. Judaica shops around the world sell plates with three sections for each of the matzot. So it might ...

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 ...

“I hope and pray that the matzot that are eaten this Passover will be a source of inspiration for the coming year.” The numerical value of the letters of the name Avraham is 247 and the Golinsky ...

(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 ...

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, ...

This week, Rakusen’s has organised shifts through the night to meet the order of some 70,000 boxes, equating to nearly a million matzot. They will be distributed to Ukrainian and other Eastern ...

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 workers — ...