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...unleavened bread, at a bakery in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel. Jews are forbidden to eat leavened foodstuffs during the Passover holiday. Passover celebrates the biblical story of the Israelites' escape from slavery and exodus from Egypt. (Oded Balilty...
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Albany Times-Union
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...is one of the most widely celebrated Jewish holidays and commemorates the biblical story of Exodus, when Hebrew slaves were released from bondage in Egypt. Called "pesach" (pay-sak) in Hebrew, Passover is a celebration of freedom. You can learn more about...
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About.com
http://judaism.about.com/od/holidays/a/Jewish-Holiday-Passover-Pesach.htm
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...ancho chile salsa. • Rosa Mexicano: Rosa Mexicano in Miami is offering special lunch and dinner menus for the entire week of Passover. The special dishes include red snapper gefilte fish, duck and beet borscht, and brisket tacos. • Akasha: Akasha will host...
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The Daily Meal
http://www.thedailymeal.com/ultimate-passover-restaurant-guide
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...world,spring means more than budding trees and tulips. It's time to celebrate the Pesach . This is eight-day celebration of Passover. It's a time to remember when God delivered the Israelites out of Egypt. Jewish families gather together to pray, read scriptures...
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Figure/Speed Skating
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...at work in her kitchen, where she has removed everything from the cabinets, cleaned them and returned the items. "I don’t mix Passover food with rest-of-the-year food," she said. "I have two freezers, one for Passover food and one for non-Passover food."...
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PennLive.com
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http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/04/cleaning_for_passover_involves.html
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...is an eight-day Jewish holiday, and kosher refers to food that meets certain strict biblical laws regarding what can be eaten as well as which foods can be combined in one meal. That makes sense. But what, exactly, is kosher for Passover and how does it differ...
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Epicurious
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...It's a timeless story of a people's yearning for freedom. Jews worldwide will observe the eight-day Passover period starting at sundown April 18. The celebration includes songs, rituals, storytelling, symbolic foods, special meals called Seders and family...
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The Courier-Journal
http://www.jconline.com/article/20110409/LIFE07/104090317/1122
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...Supper that Jesus instituted on the night he was betrayed was a new Passover meal. Or we might say that the Passover was the Old Testament Lord’s Supper. The reason the Lord instituted the Passover was so that people of Israel would always remember and proclaim...
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Desiring God
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DGBlog/~3/X04b6tg_6vU/the-ot-lords-supper-the-nt-passover
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...using eggs and oil. Then it is called fried mazto. This is my favorite way to eat matzo. Mazto is probably the most well-known Passover food. I love to make and eat fried matzo during Passover. I eat at least four times and I eat it plain or with cinnamon...
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2718195/passover_equals_traditional_foods.html
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Passover is a Jewish holiday celebrated in the month of March or April (depending on the year). Passover is a celebration of freedom from the bondage of slavery in the land of Egypt. During the Passover holiday, the main and central celebration is the
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2704551/the_meaning_of_passover.html
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Gov. Charlie Crist is rescheduling a congressional primary election to move it off the last day of Passover. The Republican governor issued an executive order scheduling an election for April 13 to replace Democratic Rep. Robert
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1351759.html
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Shalom International wants Gov. Charlie Crist to change the date of a special congressional election in South Florida because it falls on the last day of Passover.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A Jewish group wants Gov. Charlie Crist to change the date of a
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FOX News
http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/politics/~3/ZPrbb8apohM/jewish-group-protests-florida-passover-election-date
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Negative Commandment 117 (Digest)
Leaving Over Meat of the Paschal Offering until Morning
"And you shall let nothing of it remain until the morning"—Exodus 12:10.
It is forbidden to leave over of the meat of the Paschal Offering until the morning of
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Chabad.org
http://www.chabad.org/dailystudy/seferHamitzvos.asp?tDate=11/18/2009
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"Improbable maybe, but impossible never." Tom Seaver, August 22, 2009.
I'm out of my knowledge base here, but I will take the comment below at face value (jmp is a regular commenter both on and off the blog) and assume the facts are correct. Y'all
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Sports Blogs
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(IsraelNN.com) The Chief Rabbinate of Israel is considering granting an overall certification of "kosher for Passover" for the Similac baby formula. The rabbinate currently certifies Similac as kosher for those who eat legumes (kitniyot in Hebrew) and
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Arutz Sheva
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/167573
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...not rely upon miracles,'' instructing the Jew to act, rather than to rely on divine aid. Therefore, the matzah consumed at the Passover Seder is shmurah, guarded by human beings from the beginning of the process to the end. If we are to celebrate the human...
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The Morning Call
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/morningcall/entertainment/~3/K2rBVIPoMhk/all-faithtorczyner.6860988apr18,0,3163188.story
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Passover ended last night at sundown, so it's party time for observant Jews; that means plenty of pizza, pasta, and bagels, among other yeasty items they've denied themselves for the past eight days, in remembrance of the exodus from Egypt. According
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Gothamist
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...windows of the store he runs and the signs that said the store, 72nd Street Bagel, on the West Side, would be closed for Passover. Mr. Ahmed and other bagel makers say that the first business day after the holiday ends Friday is typically one of their busiest...
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The New York Times
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=cfa28f51eb671e7ea1f0fae196577425
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AP/Rick Smith
Marshmallow Peeps lined up at the Just Born factory in Bethlehem, Pa.
At the end of a big holiday, leftovers are almost impossible to avoid. If you find yourself buried in boxes of matzo, packages of Peeps, or baskets of hard boiled eggs,
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Finding Dulcinea
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/foodie/2009/april/Clever-Ways-to-Use-Easter-and-Passover-Leftovers.html
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As a student at one of the schools that was not off this festive week, I was left to face the challenge of observing Passover at Cornell. The most difficult challenge for me, like many, is avoiding bread products. Once a year I understand why people on
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Cornell Daily Sun
http://cornellsun.com/section/opinion/content/2009/04/15/warning-column-not-kosher-passover
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Photo: Celebrating Passover
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Norman Cohen, left, reads aloud from the Haggadah as he leads the Sukkat Shalom Jewish congregation's community Passover Seder as Sheron Schramm lights a candle. More than 100 members of the
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Juneau Empire
http://juneauempire.com/stories/041309/loc_428777571.shtml
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Following Jewish tradition, Saturday night's Passover Seder at Temple Beth El included wine, cakes made with matzo and prayers recited in Hebrew.
But there were some differences. For one, there wasn't a man in the room.
For seven years, Temple Beth El
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The Californian
http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20090412/NEWS01/90412001/1002/rss
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Maryland prison officials say inmates will continue to be offered the choice of kosher meals beyond Passover.
The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services announced in March that it would offer kosher meals during Passover to any inmates
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TheNewsTribune.com
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/religion/story/706182.html?source=rss
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The dinner invitation was unexpected, from an acquaintance I'd written about years ago.
And since I've never been one to turn down a good meal, I headed to Santa Monica on Wednesday -- the first night of the Jewish holiday of Passover -- to my first
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Los Angeles Times
http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/LosAngelesTimes-SandyBanks/~3/RyfW6PxAF2M/la-me-banks11-2009apr11,0,254162.column
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Last night during the Passover Seder meal, I noticed a distinct lack of ankle-biters running around the golf club where my family holds the get-together.
In previous years, there seemed to be more kids whose families were also using the club's
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Canoe
http://blog.canoe.ca/canoedossier/2009/04/09/passover_economics
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Obama is hosting the first-ever Presidential Passover meal. It will include traditional Passover food prepared by White House chefs, and include an A-list of political celebs, like Michelle Obama's deputy chief of staff, Melissa Winter and Barack's
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Town Hall
http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/23bf8f91-6f34-4463-aa06-281f65894113
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In an odd, yet touching, yet odd segment last night on the "Colbert Report," Stephen deduced that the sun's alignment coupled with the final day of Passover (Nissan) meant that he should free the Jews living under his desk in bondage. They looked
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/stephen-colbert-frees-his_n_185069.html
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The clock neared 6 p.m. Wednesday. Sundown was approaching - and the students started to pour into Hillel. The count had already reached 293 when a dozen more stragglers walked through the door.
"We're not turning anybody away," one organizer
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The Daily Orange
http://www.dailyorange.com/news/2009/04/09/Feature/Family.Meal.Students.Attend.Hillels.Seder.Dinner.For.Passover-3704209.shtml
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On each table were seder plates, containing all the foods that symbolically tell the Passover story, which centers on the Jews’ struggle to be free from slavery in Egypt.
The plates included boiled eggs representing new life, raisins, walnuts and
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Bradenton Herald
http://www.bradenton.com/news/story/1354515.html
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In Lawrence, David Bobker, 4, throws bread into the fire as a religious tradition before Passover begins.
(Photo by Howard Schnapp / April 8, 2009)
With bitter herbs and unleavened bread, observant Long Island Jews yesterday celebrated the first night
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Newsday
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nynewsday/news/local/longisland/~3/EJHK6wOR4Q4/ny-lipass0409a,0,5378422.story
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The Illinois Nut and Candy Company is recalling all Pistachios and Passover Mixed nuts containing Pistachios as well as Passover Mixed Nut Bark containing pistachios. The nuts were supplied to them from Setton Farms which has issued a recall. ...
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Generef.com
http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=62866
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Snogging is a British term referring to necking, kissing, making out, and foreplay engaged in by two people. It has made a big splash in the news recently with a John Mayer admission he snogged Perez Hilton at a club a few years ago. With the admission
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1634609/is_snogging_part_of_passover.html
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Matzo may be a mainstay on the Passover table, but it's often dismissed as all the same. When shopping, people tend to reach for the brand they grew up eating. Yet in a recent taste test, we discovered all matzo doesn't look or taste alike, and it
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TwinCities.com
http://feeds.twincities.com/~r/mngi/rss/CustomRssServlet/569/201051/~3/lnrYDZLHCms/ci_12098188
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The largest Passover dinners in Pittsburgh tonight will be attended by local college students.
Between 120 and 150 students are expected to attend a dinner at 7 p.m. at the Hillel Jewish University Center on Forbes Avenue in Oakland, said Susie Sheldon,
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Pittsburgh Entertainment
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/tribpm/s_619785.html?source=rss&feed=7
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Chris Maynard for The New York Times What old and expired foods lurk in your pantry?
New York Times Web producer Karen Barrow recently got her kitchen ready for Passover, and learned some lessons about her eating and shopping habits in the process.
A
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The New York Times
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=2e9b70309a94f56a1051d710c75ef2d8
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Bar-Hai will return to the Loewenstein Center after the holiday, to continue his rehabilitation treatment.
"This is a very important milestone," said Dvir's father, Zvi Bar-Hai, who is also the head of the South Hebron Regional Council. "It's
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Ynetnews
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3699266,00.html
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Teaching kids to use their manners at the table is one thing, but teaching them the rituals and reasons behind a religious meal is another.
That's why the Rabbi Arnold Task is glad to offer his help leading a children's seder leading up to the
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The Alexandria Town Talk
http://thetowntalk.com/article/20090408/LIFESTYLE/904080308/-1/rss
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Passover is one of the most widely observed Jewish holidays. More than 80 percent of Jews have attended a Passover Seder, according to the National Jewish Population Survey.
The Seder is a family gathering in which Jews retell the story of the Jewish
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sun-sentinel/news/local/southflorida/~3/_vHr7h2pXlQ/sfl-passover-seder-box-p040809pnapr08,0,1720110.story
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Sallie and Albert Tenenbaum will celebrate Passover at their Cherry Hill home tonight. Now approaching their 80s, the Orthodox couple will recite the Seder service from memory, barely glancing at their copies of the Haggadah as they recount the
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N.J. Courier-Post Online
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20090408/NEWS01/904080355/1006/RSS01
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Passover, a time set aside to commemorate the freeing of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, begins tonight at sundown.
For some, Passover's significance is more than just a celebration of a physical release from bondage, but a spiritual freedom as
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Long Beach Press-Telegram
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_12094818?source=rss
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This year, Passover begins on Wednesday evening and lasts for eight days, concluding at sunset on April 16.
On the first two evenings we gather around our tables for a seder supper, the Passover ritual meal. The word 'seder' means "order", since we
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The News-Press
http://www.news-press.com/article/20090408/WORSHIP/904080353/1013/RSS03
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It is Passover starting April 8th at sundown. Passover commemorates the Exodus and the freedom of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. In the US, Passover lasts for 8 days. The first two evenings are traditionally large family Passover seder
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BlogHer
http://www.blogher.com/passover-begins-april-8th-holiday-hope-and-joy
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Larry Crowe/The Associated Press
Baked desserts for the Passover Seder are often overlooked due to restrictions on common baking ingredients, but Matzo Pudding with Cherry-Almond Sauce deliciously fits within the rules.
Baked desserts for the Passover
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SouthCoastToday.com
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090408/LIFE/904080318/-1/rss11
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THROUGH the ritual of the Seder, Passover tells the story of the Pharaoh's oppression of the Jews in ancient Egypt and their eventual emancipation from slavery. It's a time of reflection, and after the recent war in Gaza, many Jews are asking: Who are
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Philly.com
http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167751&44=42571287&32=3796&7=195457&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fdailynews%2Fopinion%2F20090407_Letters__Passover_vigil_for_peace.html
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Home : Features : Columnists
6-Apr-2009
Written by: Megan Tinsley
The Passover is a major holiday that the Jewish nation celebrates annually to reflect on the Exodus of their ancestors
Jews nationally and internationally will be celebrating
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TheCelebrityCafe.com
http://thecelebritycafe.com/features/26387.html
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Baked desserts for the Passover Seder are challenging. With the exception of matzo, flour products, grains and leavening agents are not allowed. So a delicious bread pudding is out of the question, right? Unleavened, cracker-like matzos are the only
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Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12073028?source=rss
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The lesson came during a recent story time in teacher Deborah Reba's classroom for second grade. Student assistant Jessica Rosenfeld, 17, a student at Buchanan High School, read the new children's book, "Nachshon, Who Was Afraid to Swim: A Passover
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Fresno Bee
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TRINITY — Elaborate preparations are made in Jewish homes as families prepare to celebrate the festival of Passover.
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TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times
http://www.tampabay.com/news/religion/article989493.ece
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SOLON -- Rabbi Zushe Greenberg and his family have already begun to prepare to open their house to dozens of guests for Passover.
The rabbi and his wife Miriam believe the holiday should be shared with as many people are possible, and so this year as
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WKYC | Cleveland, OH
http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=110651
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Rabbi Greenberg prepares his home, the day before Passover, for the many guests who will visit there during the week. He ordered fruits and vegetables in bulk from a local grocery store to be assured they would not run out. Kosher foods are eaten
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Naples Daily News
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