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Healthy Passover Pleasures
Most traditional Pesach recipes are high in calories, carbohydrates and fat, but are low in fiber. Traditions are hard to break and favorite foods are difficult to “pass up,” especially...
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A Non-Gebrokts, Gluten-Free Passover
Even experienced cooks find Passover overwhelming because of all the extra preparations, shopping, cooking and meal planning. To minimize stress, plan your menus and shopping lists early. This year,...
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Frogs Were Everywhere. But Where Was Shirley?
Illustration: Ann D. Koffsky One morning King Pharaoh woke in his bed / There were frogs in his bed and frogs on his head / Frogs on his nose and frogs on his toes / Frogs here, frogs there, frogs just...
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Avoiding the Pesach Pounds
I’ve heard it said that Jewish history can be summed up like this: Someone tried to destroy us, Hashem saved us, let’s celebrate. This, of course, translates into the family gathering...
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Pesach Dieters, Take Note: You Can Have Your Potato—and Eat It, Too!
Q: Potatoes, potatoes and more potatoes … with all these carbs, it’s no wonder I gain a pound for every day of Pesach—and the week before, too! How can I avoid overdoing the carbs? A: As a long-time...
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Is Pesach Cleaning Hazardous to Your Health?
Q: My asthmatic husband constantly complains about the “poisonous” sprays and cleaning products I use to clean our home. Do they really pose a danger? A: This question is especially pertinent now,...
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Dos and Don’ts for Running an Explanatory Seder
By Gideon Black Do • Make sure everyone at the table feels like a player on the field and not a spectator watching the action. • Have all participants use the same Haggadah. A...
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Gluten Free Healthy Passover Pleasures
Do you feel a sense of panic when trying to plan your menu for the Sedarim? Do you struggle to keep your Pesach menus as healthy as possible? Do you need recipes that are gluten-free or non-gebrokts?...
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Conquering Potato Fatigue
Q: I’m so tired of potatoes for every side dish on Pesach. What are other options if I don’t eat gebrokts? A: As a self-professed potato lover, I feel that a meal is just not complete without...
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A GREENWICH VILLAGE SEDER
By Gideon Black Washington Square Park in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. For my wife and me, like many of this magazine’s readers, Pesach conjures up memories of being with family, sitting around a...
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Curious about Kitniyot?
By Yaakov Luban and Eli Gersten Everyone knows that Ashkenazim don’t eat rice or beans–kitniyot–on Pesach, but many people don’t know why. Interestingly, kitniyot are not and cannot become chametz. So...
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From Homemade to Store-bought: the Evolving Passover Diet
With supermarket shelves bulging with Passover muffins, Passover granola and even Passover breadsticks, it’s hard to grasp that for much of history, this holiday’s fare was limited to the simple and...
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What’s the Truth about . . . the Sale of Chametz on Pesach?
Misconception: Along with chametz food that one sells to his rabbi, one also sells chametzdik dishes for the duration of Pesach. Fact: The rabbi does not buy the chametz but merely acts as an agent in...
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Lasting Impressions: Memory of a Second Seder
“Why is this night not like all other nights?” we ask ourselves at the Seder each year. I answer that question by remembering a Seder that was not like all other Sedarim. As a chutznik, a term...
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Going Green: Lettuce—The Perfect Pesach Vegetable
Q: I’m elbow-deep in soapy water checking my maror for the Seder, while chatting with a friend on the phone, who tells me that lettuce has no nutritional value. Is that true? If so, why are people...
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Beyond Chicken and Potatoes: Pesach Never Tasted So Good!
Preparing healthy, satisfying and delicious meals for family and friends during the eight days of Pesach is a huge challenge. The secret is to focus on plant-based foods, including a variety of...
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Memories of Passover with a Modern Twist
Matzah balls evoke special memories for most people. In our family, everyone’s favorite part of the chicken soup is that wonderful white matzah ball floating in the center of the bowl. In addition to...
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Pesach–in Auschwitz, a father’s story
By Aviva Woznica Perhaps because my father was born on the second night of Pesach, soon after the last of the seder’s four cups of wine had been consumed, was the holiday forever so close to his...
View ArticleRefusing to Pass Over Pesach
How do you celebrate a holiday dedicated to memory when a person’s memory is fading? That was the challenge my mother faced a couple decades ago. Her sister Henrietta, in her eighties, in the throes of...
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A Different Twist On Pesach!
Cookbook author and caterer Naomi Nachman certainly knows a thing or two about putting a modern twist on traditional Passover dishes. Her new cookbook, Perfect for Pesach (ArtScroll), is packed with...
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