Here s How People Celebrate Passover Around the World Teddy Nykiel
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.
by Allan Lengel
Latkes with applesauce Since 1946, a playful annual debate has gone on at the University of Chicago about which is the more perfect Jewish food: latke or hamantash. A latke is potato pancake particularly popular during Chanukah. A hamantash is a triangular pastry filled with poppy seeds or fruit, often eaten during the festive Jewish holiday of Purim, which commemorates the survival of the Jews who Persian rulers in the 5th Century vowed to destroy. Purim, a one-day holiday, is this Thursday. Amy Krause Amy Krause, who graduated from West Bloomfield High School and Wayne State University, is working on a documentary on the debate. In the past two years, she s interviewed moderators and debators at the University of Chicago, Joan Nathan, a James Beard award-winning cookbook author and Jewish food historian, and Jews around the U.S. and in Tel Aviv and Krakow, Poland. The pandemic has slowed the project.
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Group photo includes left to right: Amy Brandwein, Suellen Lazarus, Joan Nathan, and Suzanne Modigliani; standing in front of fig trees on the enclosure wall on Fasilides Bath; Gondar, Amhara Region. Suzanne Modigliani
The luggage claim area after arriving in the Tigray Region. Suzanne Modigliani
A coffee shop, where it is common to find only men while women work at home, Addis Ababa. Suzanne Modigliani
Waiting to be hired as market transport, Adadi, Oromia Region. Suzanne Modigliani
Buying spices at the Shola Market to have ground for their berbere at a mill under the highway near, Addis Ababa. Suzanne Modigliani
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