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For over 40 years, this 'Passover goy' bought millions of dollars of NY's hametz

163 shares Rabbi Mordechai Willig, left, executes the 2015 sale of hametz to John J. Brown, right. (Josh Weinberg/ screenshot from YouTube/ via JTA) JTA — For decades, dozens of Orthodox rabbis would gather in a New York City synagogue on the morning before Passover and, one by one, sell millions of dollars worth of bread, pasta and other leavened products to one man. That man, a real estate agent named John J. Brown, acted as the linchpin of a Jewish legal process that is crucial to t...
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John J. Brown, who bought hametz from thousands of Jews each year before Passover, dies at 88

(JTA) — For decades, dozens of Orthodox rabbis would gather in a New York City synagogue on the morning before Passover and, one by one, sell millions of dollars worth of bread, pasta and other leavened products to one man. That man, a real estate agent named John J. Brown, acted as the linchpin of a Jewish legal process that is crucial to those who keep the strict laws of Passover, which forbid Jews from owning or benefitting from hametz, or any products containing leaven. Because most ob...
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