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This year’s Passover holiday starts at sundown on Saturday, March 27 and runs until the evening of Sunday, April 4. While the traditional Seder may still be a socially-distanced affair, chefs and restaurants around DC are putting together matzo-laden menus for whatever your celebration looks like dine-in, takeout, or delivery.
300 Florida Ave., NW; 711 Kennedy St., NW
The cidery is teaming up with the soup slingers at Prescription Chicken to offer $36 holiday boxes with matzo ball soup and a pack of District Kosher, Anxo’s certified kosher-for-Passover cider. Kits also include sweet matzo toffee and a savory iteration spiced with everything bagel seasoning.
3170 College Ave. (at Alcatraz), Berkeley
Monday morning of this week started out just like any other Monday morning for Emily Winston, owner of Boichik Bagels in Berkeley. It’s one of her two days off, so she was just relaxing when the phone call came.
A friend and someone who has been following the progress of Boichik closely since it began OK, it was this reporter called with some incredible news: In a headline that could only be considered incendiary by many, the New York Times had just declared, “The Best Bagels are in California (Sorry, New York).”
And not only that, but the author of the March 8 article, New York Times restaurant critic Tejal Rao, singled out Boichik as her new favorite.
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Explore unique global Passover traditions, from oranges on Seder plates to the Moroccan
Mimouna celebration.
One of the most widely celebrated Jewish holidays, Passover commemorates the Jewish peoples’ exodus from slavery in ancient Egypt. The holiday’s hallmark is the Passover Seder, a ritual meal that involves telling the Passover story with symbolic foods.
While many Passover traditions are fairly ubiquitous around the world including the Seder and the custom of eating unleavened bread, or matzo some dishes and rituals are particularly unique. In the U.S., for example, some families use Passover props and games to help tell the holiday story. Here are a few other interesting Passover traditions from across the globe.