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Matzo

Just in time for Passover, Ben and Jerry's is offering vanilla ice cream with a swirl of charoset straight from the seder table.

Forget Cherry Garcia. How about Ben and Jerry’s Passover ice cream?

Food

The matzah flavor ice cream didn’t work out so well, but Ben and Jerry’s charoset flavor for Passover is a big hit in Israel. And despite a flood of requests from the States, the kosher-for-Passover flavor isn’t leaving the Holy Land any time soon.

An archival photo of matzo-making at Streit's on the Lower East Side; things haven't changed all that much at the factory over the decades.

A family that’s made matzo on the Lower East Side for nearly a century prepares to leave the neighborhood

Food
A French tourist eats a kosher McDonalds hamburger with a potato-starch bun in downtown Jerusalem.

Israeli restaurants get creative on Passover with imitation bread, pizza, and bagels

Lifestyle & Belief

When Jews lived in the Soviet Union, they had to hide their matzah in suitcases

Lifestyle & Belief

When Jews lived in the Soviet Union, they had to hide their matzah in suitcases

Lifestyle & Belief
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