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Hot Property. Times Events. Times Store. Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options. The Passover Seder invites us to give memory meaning. By Rob Eshman. Learn all about the holiday here. Among observant Jews, it is common practice to avoid most processed food that is not explicitly labeled kosher for Passover.
This is true even for products like cheese or juice that do not contain any hametz, but may have been processed in a plant alongside products containing hametz. Some products that are kosher year-round are modified slightly to be kosher for Passover — most famously Coca-Cola, which substitutes cane sugar for corn syrup in some regions over the holiday and is marked by a distinctive yellow cap. A guide to kosher for Passover foods is published each year by the Orthodox Union, which also maintains a searchable database of Passover foods on its website.
The OU also has information on food products that can be used without explicit Passover certification. There are a range of additional practices common to Jews who keep kosher for Passover. Chief among them is ridding the home of any hametz products. This is typically done in the days leading up to Passover when homes are cleaned of all hametz. For hametz products that are too valuable or difficult to discard, it is also possible to sell the hametz to a non-Jew.
Generally, a rabbi performs this service on behalf of his congregants and then repurchases the hametz for them when the holiday concludes. In these cases, the seller rarely delivers the food to the purchaser, but instead packs it away.
In the Middle Ages, rice, lentils, chickpeas, and fava beans were all ground into flour, which in that state could be confused with the true grains. The list continued to grow after corn and beans came to the Old World from the New.
In France, where mustard seeds grow, mustard was added to the list, because the seeds could be intertwined and confused with other plants. The confusion principle is largely the reason why many American Jews abstained from eating any corn or rice products on Passover for decades.
Whether this changed the ingrained habits of observant Jews remains to be seen, but the shift was noteworthy nonetheless. The anti-legume tradition has been mostly maintained by Ashkenazic Jews, or those whose ancestors come from eastern Europe. Pre-Inquisition Jews from Spain never followed these rules, and thus Sephardim, who by definition are Jews descended from those who escaped Spain but also include those who are from South America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, do not either.
The vast majority of American Jews, 95 percent or more , are Ashkenazic. Even now in an era of detailed FDA-mandated labeling, where the confusion Nathan wrote about is nigh impossible, the tradition continues.
Made with cane sugar and not high-fructose corn syrup, the imported soda is good to go. Relatedly, what tastes better? Regular Coke or Kosher for Passover Coke? The New Republic did a taste test. For reasons that are unknown to most Jews, some people willingly eat matzo at other times of the year. The difference? Rabbinic supervision to ensure that any matzo made for Passover is untainted by any leavening agents. There is also a debate over whether egg matzo is allowed.
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