Entries Tagged as 'Matzo'

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

A Bread Line (Unleavened, Please) for Passover

(“Weighing and Delivering of the Matzos or Unleavened Bread,” from Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly magazine, August 1877. )
” The price was 4¾ cents per pound, much cheaper than the current going price — “this being the lowest offer tendered,’’ the records noted — and a total of 14,330 pounds were bought.The order was distributed among […]

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Pesach: Sefer Haminhagim - Chabad Customs

Shemurah Matzah: [295] The Rebbe Shlita has asked everyone, especially rabbanim,shochatim and anyone else involved in communal activities, to endeavor to distribute round, hand-baked matzos specifically shemurah to their acquaintances, sufficient for at least both Sedarim. People organizing communal Sedarim, in hotels and the like, should also attend to this. [296]The […]

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Matzo company gets ready for Passover

“Isaac Liberman, a senior mashgiach, removes matzos that do not meet certain quality standards at the Manischewitz Matzo baking Plant in Newark. The Secaucus-based Manischewitz Company invited reporters and photographers to witness its first schmura matzo run at its new matzo baking plant in Newark. The Jersey Journal’s Reena Rose Sibayan was there to document […]