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This Chicken and Celery Saut in Sephardic Sweet and Sour Sauce reflects several seder traditions.

Some Sephardic communities dip celery leaves, not parsley, into salt water. Ancient writings sometimes confused the two plants, and early eastern Mediterranean celery was much more bitter than todays vegetable.

In Greece, Turkey and the Balkans, it became a custom for some to have celery poached in lemon sauce as part of the holiday meal. The recipe below builds on that custom. Instructions for doubling or partially making ahead follow the main recipe.

Remove and reserve celery leaves. If desired, lightly peel celery to remove strings. Trim off bottom and tops of stalks. Cut into 1-inch pieces (4 cups). Coarsely chop celery leaves to use as garnish.

Cut larger thighs in half. Toss thighs with tsp. each salt, pepper and oregano. Heat 1-2 Tbs. oil in a deep 12-inch fry or saut pan over medium-high heat. Working in batches (adding oil as needed), brown chicken and saut until almost cooked through. Set aside. Cover.

Wipe out excess liquid from pan but do not clean. Add 1 Tbs. oil, lower heat to medium and saut onions until just softened, scraping up any browned bits from bottom of pan. Add garlic, tsp. each salt, pepper, oregano, paprika and the carrots. Saut 2 minutes, add cup of water and cover, stirring occasionally until carrots have begun to soften, adding another cup of water if needed. Stir in cauliflower, celery and 1 tsp. lemon zest. Add cup water and cover, stirring often until vegetables are tender but still crisp, adding another cup of water if needed as they cook. Taste. Correct seasoning. Transfer to bowl. Stir in any liquid released by the reserved chicken. Cover.

Add 2 Tbs. oil to pan (again without cleaning). Heat over medium heat. Add 1 cup water, the lemon juice, 1 tsp. zest, 1 Tbs. sugar and tsp. salt. Bring to a boil. Lower heat to simmer, uncovered, until reduced by half. Taste, adding sugar, salt or lemon juice as needed. The sauce should be pleasantly sweet and sour. Raise heat to medium. Stir in vegetables and chicken. Saut until chicken is fully cooked and everything is heated through. Serve hot or warm. Place in serving bowl. Spoon any remaining pan sauce over dish. Garnish with chopped celery leaves and 1 Tbs. lemon zest.

To double recipe: Heat oven to 350 degrees. Saut chicken in batches. Cook vegetables in batches. Transfer chicken and vegetables to baking pan and stir in lemon sauce until coated. Bake until chicken is fully cooked and dish is heated through.

To partially make ahead: Refrigerate the almost cooked chicken and the crisp-tender vegetables separately. Bring to room temperature. Heat 1-2 Tbs. oil in fry pan. Add chicken and when almost heated through, add vegetables. Saut until all is heated through. Remove from pan and cover. Continue as directed.

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(JTA) Hours before he was rushed to hospital in Milan because of the coronavirus, Efry Levy Azizoff was chatting on the phone with his friend Amichai Lazarov.

Azizoff was already feeling unwell, yet he didnt even mention it, Lazarov recalled.

I felt that something was off, but you conveyed nothing about your discomfort, Lazarov wrote on the website of Milans Jewish community, Mosaico.

In hindsight I can say that this is what characterized you: You never projected any negative thoughts or feelings, Lazarov wrote.

Azizoff died Monday at the age of 66. He is survived by his wife, Smira, and five children. According to Mosaico, he was the first Jew of Persian descent born in Milan.

His father, Bob, was a carpet dealer. But Azizoff, who was an only child, declined to follow in his fathers footsteps and became a trader in precious stones.

Always very involved in the commitment to the whole Jewish community, Efry was always in the front row when it came to working for the well-being of the community or to lend a hand, also from behind the scenes in a discreet and humble way and never self-centered, read an obituary posted on the community website.

Azizoff served as president of the Noam synagogue, which has many Persian and Sephardic families. According to the obituary, he felt a deep sense of sadness as many Persian families in Milan began to move away to New York. Yet it never dimmed the warm smile for which everyone who met him remembers him.

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By Lieba Nesis

As Passover arrives, the formerly joyous holiday has lugubrious undertones as all global programs have been canceled. Over the years Passover travel has skyrocketed with over 170 tours offering kosher food and entertainment for hefty prices. It is not uncommon for a large family to spend a quarter of a million dollars for the holiday. The bevy of options available from Thailand to Miami has turned the holiday from one associated with onerous preparation into a more relaxed vacation style eight-days. That was until coronavirus hit: forcing Jews to hold lockdown seders with small family gatherings of ten or less replacing the mega-meals associated with prior years.

The community will face one of its biggest challenges yet as it must not give into the temptation to socialize. Repeating the parties of Purim which led to hundreds of unneeded hospitalizations and deaths would be tragic. Crowding stores and streets to buy seder plates for the holiday must be avoided-we have lost too many lives already. The flouting of laws to remain six feet apart and avoid gatherings of more than 10 has resulted in thousands of clustered cases in Williamsburg, Boro Park and Lakewood. Paradoxically, this past Sunday, April 5th, two heavily attended funerals took place in Brooklyn to mourn two people who lost their lives to an illness attendees were exposing themselves to. This must stop as it places health care workers, the elderly and those with underlying conditions in unnecessary jeopardy.

Due to the current crisis, there are currently no Passover programs proceeding, with each tour taking a different course concerning refunds. The Doral Miami, owned by President Trump, which costs $12,000 for room and food for two adults, gave back 100% of the money to its participants. The sold-out Waldorf Orlando which costs $10,000 for a double occupancy room with food, returned 75% of the money-since they were still on the hook with vendors-allowing an additional 10% towards either of the next two years. The Arizona Biltmore returned 70% of the money, with an option to carry forward 100% of the payment the following year. The Kosher Travelers tour in Havana, Cuba refunded 70% of the money.

Some less generous operators include Koshericas Bonaventure which is only refunding 65% or allowing a credit toward the following year. Koltuv events which was planning programs in Italy offered guests a 50% refund permitting the remainder to be used within the next two years. Sarah Tours in El Jadida Morocco is offering a 50% credit and 50% towards 2021 (not bad).Yad Rema Pesach in Cartegena, Colombia is giving a 40% credit for the following year or an 8-night free stay at the hotel during the year. Kosherica Bahamas is offering 56% now or a full credit for 2021. Finally, Lasko Kosher Tours, who own and operate Turnberry, Miami have not refunded anything as of April 3rd and were vague as to whether they were planning to do so.

Similarly outrageous is the Eden Roc hotel which has refused to return a $2.3 million deposit given by Magen David Yeshivah who booked 621 rooms for 1,200 guests to eat and enjoy the beautiful Miami Beaches. After a school representative called to cancel, VP of Sales, Sergio Rivera, had the audacity to ask for the remaining $1.2 million. The private Sephardic school stayed at the hotel in 2018 and 2019. They subsequently signed a three-year contract that allowed for the trip to be canceled in the event of a disease outbreak. Moreover, under current Floridian laws hotels have been closed with gatherings strictly prohibited. While the court will undoubtedly rule the deposit must be immediately returned there will nonetheless be a permanent stain on the Eden Rocs reputation ensuring future boycotts.

The best option for families staying home is ordering take-out from Kosher Marketplace, or Zabars or hundreds of other online options. Even the omnipresent FreshDirect and Amazon are getting in on the Passover game with FreshDirect offering a leg of lamb that feeds 8 for the paltry price of $165-far cheaper than the $6,000 per person programs.

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For most modern secular readers not well versed in the enigmatic midrashic style of our Sages, the Passover Haggadah is a rather abstruse text. The decision to conclude the work with an obscure liturgical poem about a strange little goat perhaps only increases the sense of confusion amongst readers. It is possible that the source of this odd song lay in the desire to hold the interest of the youngest participants until the very end of the Seder, which is traditionally a lengthy affair.The purpose of the Haggadah is to fulfill the important commandment and you shall tell your son (and your daughter, we might add) the story of the Exodus. Thus, young boys and girls are the focus of the Passover Seder text and the Haggadah is full of various rituals and passages aimed at keeping the Seders youngest participants alert and interested: It is the children who ask the four traditional questions inquiring about the strange customs of the evening. They are the ones who search for the Afikoman and keep an eye out for the arrival of the Prophet Elijah. Chad Gadya, the concluding song, with its animals and other fantastic figures, represents something for the children to look forward to.For this reason, some scholars have crowned Chad Gadya as the earliest known childrens song or at least one of the earliest. We obviously have no information about songs which were not set down in writing and which were sung by parents to their children over the course of the thousands of years of human history there must have been many. But in Chad Gadya, we encounter, probably for the first time, a song that was specifically written and put into print for the sake of the edification of children.You may very well know the song by heart and perhaps youre even humming along as you read, but lets take a closer look at its attributes. Chad Gadya is whats known as a cumulative song, meaning that in each progressive verse a new element is added to the list of elements from the previous verse. You are probably familiar with songs of this type. For example, Old MacDonald Had a Farm, The Twelve Days of Christmas, and the song that precedes Chad Gadya in the Haggadah, Echad Mi Yodea? (Who Knows One?). The repetition and familiar refrain make these kinds of songs especially popular with children.What else can we learn from a quick look at the song? Although the language appears to be Aramaic, the song is in fact full of grammatical mistakes, and there are Hebrew words embedded in it as well, suggesting that the author wasnt fluent in Aramaic and that at the time of its writing, Aramaic was no longer a spoken language.This is also perhaps a clue as to when the song was written. The songs appearance in the Haggadah dates to the 15th or 16th century, and earlier versions of it may have been written as early as the 14th century. The song first appeared in print in the 16th-century Prague Haggadah. An early version of the liturgical poem (piyyut), in impeccable Aramaic, has been located in a manuscript which was subsequently added to the prayer book of the Provence community in France. The wording is somewhat different than the version we sing today (for example, a mouse appears in some of the versions found in the region of modern-day France). It is assumed that the Jews who fled France after the great expulsion of 1306, brought the liturgical poem with them to communities in the region of Ashkenaz (modern day Germany and northern Europe), and from there it found its way into the Haggadah. Only later did the song also reach the Haggadot of the Sephardic communities in Spain and the Middle East.But what is the origin of the poem? Are the motifs in it a Jewish invention? As one might expect in the case of an ancient folk song, we have no definitive answer to these questions. Similar motifs appear in many songs from around the world. In his article on Chad Gadya, Uriel Ofek mentions similar motifs in stories from Japan, Greece and as far as South America. One can find comparable tales in Russian and French, and some German-language versions even use the Chad Gadya formula. Interestingly, a Brothers Grimm fairy tale song, The Pear Does Not Want to Fall, bears a remarkable resemblance. In this song, a landowner sends a peasant boy named Jockli to shake a pear from a tree. After Jockli refuses, a dog is sent to bite him. When the dog refuses, a stick, water, a bull, and a butcher are sent in succession, with each refusing to carry out the task, until the intimidating executioner arrives, causing the rest of the characters to fall in line.The songs English equivalent is The House that Jack Built, with the chain beginning with malt (grain) that is eaten by a rat. The songs characters are radically different and progress from a rat to a cat, a dog, a cow with the crumpled horn, a maiden all forlorn, a man all tatterd and torn, a priest all shaven and shorn, a cock that crowd in the morn and a farmer sowing his corn. Not everyone eats each other, but some scholars have insisted on the connection between the songs and have argued that Jacks tale originated from the song about the Jewish goat. As mentioned, there is no way to determine for sure which came first. Uriel Ofek speculates in the article mentioned above that it would not be an exaggeration to claim that there isnt a nation or language that does not have a fable, rhyme or folktale with some Chad Gadya-like format or content.Jewish scholars over the years, not content to leave Chad Gadya as just an endearing tale in the Passover Haggadah whose sole purpose is to entertain the children, have layered it with interpretations. The cumulative chain of episodes, which can easily be read as nothing more than a humorous fairy tale, has been weighed down with theological import about Gods role in the world. One commentary, for example, suggests that the goat is a symbol of the Jewish people, and the other characters are the nations that have plotted to destroy it: Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Greece, Rome, the Muslims, the Crusaders and the Turks. Finally, the Holy One will come and redeem the Jewish people.Much has been written about this intriguing song that begins with a little goat and which concludes the Passover Haggadah. The mysterious piyyut has aroused the interest of researchers of folklore and liturgical poetry over the years who have tried to locate its origin and connection to similar folk songs in different languages. Perhaps around the Passover table this year you can also share something about the song, which may very well be the first recorded childrens song in history.EpilogueWe did not forget that preceding Chad Gadya in the Haggadah is another song of similar structure, also intended for the enjoyment and edification of children. The story of Echad Mi Yodea deserves a separate article, but we can already tell you that it too appeared for the first time in print in the same 16th century Prague Haggadah, and that it was known in Europe perhaps from the 15th century. Echad Mi Yodea also has parallels in European languages, but unlike Chad Gadya, it spread much earlier to the communities of Spain and Portugal and even reached the Cochin community in India. Hence, the question of its origin is even more complicated, but we will tell you more about that in the future.For more stories, go to the National Library of Israel blog.

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WASHINGTON Nearly 140 US Jewish leaders unveiled an open letter Monday to Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz and his deputy, MK Gabi Ashkenazi, urging them to remain steadfast in their opposition to West Bank annexation under a unity government.

The missive warns against allowing the coronavirus pandemic to enable Israel to annex West Bank settlements, at a time when the country needs to unify in the face of a public health emergency.

In the midst of this unprecedented health and financial crisis for Israel, we respectfully urge you not to use the need for unity in the face of emergency to create a different crisis for Israel by moving forward on unilateral annexation,the American Jewish leaders write.

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The letter was orchestrated by the Israel Policy Forum, a New York-based nonprofit that advocates for a two-state solution.

It was signed by a number of prominent Jewish philanthropists, such as Charles Bronfman and Donald Sussman, and religious leaders, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, who heads the Union for Reform Judiasm, and David Saperstein, former head of the Religious Action Center and US ambassador for International Religious Freedom in the Obama administration.

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Other signatories include former Florida Congressman Steve Israel and current head of the National Council of Jewish Women Sheila Katz, among others.

Describing themselves as proudly Zionist, unquestionably pro-Israel, the Jewish leaders said that Jerusalem unilaterally annexing the West Bank would estrange American Jews.

Should annexation be advanced, the majority of American Jews who oppose such a policy will feel more alienated from Israel as a result, the letter said. Just as we expect that our own government focus on the crisis at hand without using the fear and uncertainty felt by Americans to push through harmful and unrelated policies, we ask that the leaders of the Jewish state to which we are all so committed do the same.

The public plea comes as Gantz has reportedly indicated in negotiations that he is willing to compromise on West Bank annexation to form a unity government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus Likud party, which has demanded support for the move.

Netanyahu views West Bank annexation as a legacy-making move and has been adamant about seeing the election promise through before he would have over the prime ministership to Gantz in fall 2021, under a tentative deal.

Gantz, on the other hand, has long opposed unilateral annexation but recognizes that the right-wing bloc currently has a majority that is pushing strenuously for it.

A composite image of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Benny Gantz at polling stations in Jerusalem and Rosh Haayin, respectively, during the Knesset Elections on March 2, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL, AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Reports Monday indicated that the agreement taking shape provided for Israel to annex up to 30 percent of the West Bank all the settlements, and the Jordan Valley by early summer.

On the matter of annexation, the sides decided that the government will act with the full agreement of the US and in talks with the international community, while preserving strategic interests and peace deals, according to Hebrew media reports.

Under the reported deal, Netanyahu will consult with Gantz on the matter, but apparently will not require his agreement. A vote on annexation would be held within months and not delayed until the coronavirus outbreak has passed. Blue and White will not have a veto to block the vote, but will have a free hand in deciding how to vote.

But even without the backing of Blue and White, there would likely be sufficient support among right-wing MKs in the oppositions Yisrael Beytenu to approve annexation.

The American Jewish leaders said that pushing forward with annexation now would be particularly damaging not only because it would hurt the chances of an eventual peace deal with the Palestinians, but also because it would seem like Jerusalem was taking advantage of a global pandemic.

In turn, they warn, that would weaken pro-Israel advocacy in the United States: It will be viewed as political opportunism by proponents of annexation during the worst possible moment and will make it more challenging for American Jewish leaders as they seek to maintain strong support for Israel and pro-Israel policies at this time.

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(JTA) There are about 250,000 Jews in the United Kingdom. They account for only 0.3% of its population.

But the coronavirus has killed 44 known Jewish victims so far about 2.5% of the total U.K. tally.

That means British Jews are overrepresented by a factor of eight in their countrys death toll from COVID-19.

The statistics are compiled, released and updated periodically by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, an umbrella group representing British Jewry. The stats are unique because they are the first centralized attempt anywhere in the world at measuring the Jewish death rate and comparing it to a national total.

The figures are raising concerns that British Jews are particularly at risk from the virus. They are also giving rise to multiple hypotheses to explain this reality, though none seem conclusive.

Here are the theories and why they are difficult to prove at this point in the pandemics spread.

Its early

While Jews do seem to be overrepresented in the national death tally, the numbers of Jewish deaths being reported so far are, statistically, very small too small to draw any firm conclusions, wrote Jonathan Boyd, the executive director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, or JPR, a group that researches the demographics of European Jewry, in a Jewish Chronicle op-ed published Monday.

Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency about her organizations monitoring of Jewish fatalities.

While the figures are worrying, the current sample size is far too small to rule out variance and we cannot use them to come to any definitive conclusions, she said.

But Boyd added that he wouldnt be surprised to see elevated counts among Jews. More on that below.

The haredi Orthodox

Reports of failures to observe social distancing protocols at some haredi Orthodox synagogues and institutions have raised concerns about the spread of the virus among that specific denomination.

People are touching the same surfaces, the same siddurim, or prayer books, a health worker told The Jewish Chronicle last week about the heavily haredi London neighborhood of Stamford Hill. I believe the community is susceptible to the virus because they are so close knit.

Separately, 20 British Jewish physicians, none of them haredi, also singled out haredim in a pamphlet circulated in Stamford Hill a couple of weeks ago urging them to heed social distancing guidelines.

You are fully responsible for deaths that occur as a result of ignoring this advice, the physicians wrote.

Their concern echoed similar warnings in other places with large haredi minorities, including Israel, the United States and Belgium.

But Herschel Gluck, a haredi rabbi and head of Londons Shomrim Jewish security force, argued that the facts dont support this hypothesis.

The disease has claimed several haredi Jews, including Zeev Willy Stern and Uri Ashkenazi. But other victims have included four members of the Modern Orthodox Spanish and Portuguese community in London and two from the Reform community, including a rabbi.

Rabbi Alexander Goldberg, the Jewish chaplain at the University of Surrey near London, agrees with Gluck and he is not haredi. Goldberg believes he contracted and recovered from the virus, although medical authorities did not want to test him when he reported symptoms.

Among Jews, this disease doesnt seem to be confined to the haredi population. All sorts of Jews seem to have it, Goldberg said.

The mobility factor

To Goldberg, a former community issues director at the Board of Deputies, the one thing that the Jews who caught the coronavirus do have in common is that they belong to a group with a high level of mobility.

Haredi families from Britain travel frequently to visit family in Israel, Belgium, New York and beyond, as do Jewish businessmen regardless of their denomination.

Boyd concurs that mobility may be playing a role. Among Jews of all denominations, many work in the center of town, travelling in daily by tube, and are very much in the thick of things, he wrote.

Collectively, we are wealthier and better educated than average, which also means that we are more likely to travel abroad another way in which we might have been more likely than others to have picked up the infection early on.

But Gluck has his doubts.

The tube had many commuters, the trains were packed, he said of the London underground and national railway, which operated at full capacity until as recently as March 25, when the United Kingdom introduced a national lockdown (it came more than a week after France had taken the same measure.)

London is home to a number of immigrant groups, including more than 800,000 Poles and 600,000 Italians, who travel back to their countries of origin frequently on low-cost flights.

It doesnt stand to reason that Jews would be more exposed because of travel, Gluck said.

Age and city life

Jews are older than the general population and concentrated in London the city that has seen the most coronavirus cases of any region in the U.K., and is believed to be several weeks ahead of the rest of the country.

A London effect may partially explain higher counts among Jews, Boyd wrote, referencing the fact that 60% of all British Jews live in or around the capital. The city is an ideal place for a virus to spread, and like New York City in the United States, it is at the vanguard of the epidemic in this country.

British Jews, Boyd added, are old 21% are aged 65 and above, compared to 16.4% of the population as a whole, and given that the virus is more virulent among the old than the young, Jews may be disproportionately affected.

But, he added, Jews are also healthier than average 5% have bad or very bad health compared to a national average of 5.6%.

That may sound like splitting hairs, but its not an insignificant difference, particularly bearing in mind our age profile, Boyd wrote.

[I]ts due both to cultural factors and our socioeconomic status, both of which have commonly protected us against ill-health, he continued.

Purim and community life

Boyd and several other commentators have noted the proximity of the Jewish holiday of Purim, which fell on March 9, to the outbreak of the coronavirus in Europe.

At St. Johns Wood Synagogue in London, with 1,300 seats one of the citys largest Jewish places of worship, a rabbi contracted the virus shortly after returning from a Purim celebration in Morocco. He spent many hours interacting with dozens of congregants before he developed symptoms and self-quarantined.

Festivals like Purim bring even more people together than usual, helping the virus spread, Boyd wrote.

More broadly, there may be something about the way in which Jews organize their lives that might inadvertently cause the virus to spread between us, he added. A quarter of Jewish adults attend synagogue most weeks, whereas the equivalent proportion for church attendance among British Christians is about 10%, Boyd noted.

These are all perfect environments for a virus to multiply, he wrote. So physical social interaction typically the essential, even obligatory lubricant which underpins Jewish life now poses a mortal threat.

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Its going to be a very different seder night this year. Some will be mourning the loss of loved ones from the coronavirus. Others will feel the isolation of being apart from family, friends and community.

And the silver lining in all this? The freedom gained from cooking exactly what you want on this particular Passover.

I will not be making chopped liver this year, said food blogger Rottem Lieberson. This is the first time in my history that I dont have to worry about cousins and uncles. I can do whatever I want. Theres real freedom for the first time this year.

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The food blogger, whose latest cookbook was Persian Kitchen, and is married to an Ashkenazi, actually loves the chopped liver she usually makes, a delectable Romanian version made with horseradish.

Food blogger and Persian Kitchen author Rottem Lieberson (Courtesy Rottem Lieberson)

But with just three of them sitting at the seder table Lieberson, her husband and their ten-year-old son without their older daughters and her parents, or the 30 to 40 cousins, aunts and uncles, its going to be a different kind of seder, said Lieberson.

I will do something festive, Ill put on the nicest tablecloth and plates, Ill make a sweet spring flower arrangement out of the garden, but for the first time in history, I can make whatever I want, she said.

That will mean chicken soup and matzo balls, which she made two weeks ago and froze, as well as Persian rice, and gondi, classic Persian chicken and chickpea dumplings. Liebersons gondi are so good, they were featured in Vogue two years ago.

Rottem Liebersons Persian gondi, chicken and chickpea balls, perfect for the simpler needs of this years Passover seder (Courtesy Rottem Lieberson)

As for what to prepare, make whatever is important for you and whatever you like to eat, said Lieberson. If you like chicken, do it with mashed potatoes and salad. Were already under such stress, so why be nervous about this too?

Meat isnt on Liebersons menu this year, although she usually makes a huge leg of lamb.

Ill make vegetarian gondi or maybe with ground chicken, which is cheaper and more available, she said. With corona, its a year to do less expensive recipes, and just go vegan, said Lieberson. Keep it simple.

Thats a sentiment being echoed by many chefs and home cooks this year.

Food blogger Danielle Renov, of Peas Love & Carrots, who lives in Jerusalem with her husband and seven kids, plans on doing what she always does for Passover, keeping it simple and stress-free.

She doesnt generally use processed ingredients in her cooking, and always focuses on lots of vegetables, spices and some proteins.

During the intermediate days of Passover, Renov and her family eat two meals a day, a big brunch at around 10:30, with omelettes and hash browns or scalloped potatoes. Dinner is usually a barbecue with chicken, skirt steak or hamburgers, or sometimes Renov will splurge on potato chip schnitzel, a family favorite.

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TATER TOTS. Kosher for Pesach. Streamlined. 360 crunch. Pillow-y soft inside. Delicious. Thats right. Homemade tots, that are easy to make thanks to all my hacks. So once you turnover your kitchens, do this first. Stock that freezer up baby and no one will go hungry this pesach! Stay tuned to see all the ways we use these!!!!! #recipe 5 lb Yukon gold potatoes 2 eggs, beaten 4 Tbsp potato starch 4 tsp kosher salt (Neutral oil for brushing) Optional: 2 tsp coarse black pepper 4 tsp granulated garlic Peel potatoes and add to a large pot filled with cold water and 3 Tbsp kosher salt. Bring to a boil (uncovered) and allow to boil for 8 minutes. Drain, allow potatoes to cool then refrigerate for a few hours or overnight. Preheat oven to 350f. Using a box grater or the large grating blade on a food processor set to low speed, grate potatoes. Add the rest of the ingredients. Use your finger to gently rake the mixture to combine. On a parchment lined, liberally greased backing sheet, place 3-4 cups of the mixture in the center. Use your hands to flatten and create a 1 in high rectangle. Using a very sharp knife, cut the triangle into small 3/4 inch squares. Gently pull apart squares to distribute evenly all over the pan. There should be space between every square. Dip finger or brush in oil and brush all the sides with oil. Place tray in the oven and bake for 45-60 minutes, turning the tray once after 25 min, until they are golden brown! Eat and enjoy! *to freeze, allow them to cool completely. Stick baking tray in the freeZer. Once frozen, add to a ziplock. To cook, place frozen tots in a 350f oven for 15 min! #tatertots #madgeniustips #cookinghacks #glutenfree #kosherforpassover #kosherpassover #pesach #passover #f52grams #bareaders #thefeedfeed #gargeran #plcpesach

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The key to Renovs meals are the salads and spreads ready in her refrigerator, including beet and carrot salads, almond tahini, garlic mayonnaise and jalapeno mayonnaise.

As for desserts, we go through hundreds of meringues here, said Renov. I put them in the oven at night, and they do their thing, drying and baking themselves.

In light of the current egg shortage in Israel, she did order cartons of egg yolks and egg whites, which she plans on using for cooking, but will save her eggs for baking. Also, said Renov, make mayonnaise only with fresh eggs.

Blogger Danielle Renovs Peas, Love and Carrots The Cookbook will hopefully come out after Passover (Courtesy Danielle Renov)

Renov, whose cookbook, Peas Love & Carrots, The Cookbook, is due to launch in May (Artscroll), is spending much of her time thinking about that project. It took the last 12 months to write and includes 436 pages of Renovs energetic personality and recipes that introduce the bright, clean, fresh flavors she brings to traditional Jewish cooking.

As for this years smaller, stripped-down seder, its not a big change for Renov, who moved to Israel with her family ten years ago and usually makes seder with her husband and kids, a tradition that they now love.

Im trying to embrace being home with the family, and make the most of it, said Renov, adding that she tries not to get bogged down by big things, preferring to focus on what can be accomplished in small pockets of time. This is a life altering experience, let it alter you for the better, propel us and the world, and to apply that to the seder too.

The cover of the Sababa cookbook, authored by Adeena Sussman, who moved to Israel for love and ended up making the Carmel Market part of her everyday life (Courtesy Avery)

Adeena Sussman, whose Sababa cookbook gained a tremendous following when it was published in the fall, is also planning a far smaller seder this year.

Sussman was supposed to be making seder for her extended family, but will instead be with her husband at home in Tel Aviv with a seder for two, which will also mark his 60th birthday.

Im going to try to straddle the line of festive and sensitivity to the current climate, said Sussman. Im not going to make crown roast or lamb. Im going to be making things that feel humble but delicious and practical and can be repurposed as leftovers and that hold well in the fridge or freeze well and not things that call for too many special ingredients. Cooking simply feels like the right thing to do this year.

Luckily, plenty of her own recipes are kosher for Passover.

Sussman and her colleague Tressa Eaton recently went through Sababa and shared which recipes are Passover friendly, with separate lists for those who eat legumes and those who dont. They also provided substitute ideas for recipes that arent kosher for Passover.

Sababa cookbook author Adeena Sussman will make simpler food for the seder this year, due to the coronavirus (Courtesy Adeena Sussman)

I was surprised at how easy it is, said Sussman. Sababa is filled with elemental ingredients, and not a lot of packaged foods.

A full listing of the Passover-friendly recipes are available on the Sababa website, and Sussman also pointed out the overnight chicken soup, stews, coffee-crusted rib eye steak, the braised short ribs (which can also be made with stew meat) and salmon with preserved lemons. The olive oil and chocolate spread is perfect for slathering on matzah, and Sussman also pointed out malabi made with coconut milk and matzah crack, a recipe she has made for years.

On Passover, I like to cook the way I cook during the year, she said. So I look for recipes heavy on fresh vegetables and olive oil as opposed to creating the perfect pizza dough made out of potato flour and xantham gum.

Have you noticed the emphasis on vegetables?

Oz Telem and his vegetables (Courtesy Yael Bonfis)

Passover is the perfect time for cauliflower, said Oz Telem, who immortalized the cruciferous vegetable in his cookbook, Cauliflower, available in Hebrew, English and Spanish.

A former line chef who progressed into classic French cooking in Israeli restaurants, Telem became amazed by the versatility of cauliflower, a relatively cheap vegetable thats mild in flavor and spectacular when browned. It can be substituted for rice, mashed potatoes or couscous, is a stand-in for chicken wings when coated with breadcrumbs.

It can be the main character and supporting cast, he said,

This year, Oz suggests making cauliflower tabouleh for the seder, swapping out the barley with ground cauliflower and getting the best nutritional value out of its raw state. With some chopped herbs, olive oil and lemon juice, it has multiple benefits and is pretty simple to prepare.

Iraqi khichri, made by Oz Telem with cauliflower rather than rice, part of his Cauliflower cookbook (Courtesy Assaf Ambram)

Hes also going to use cauliflower to make his grandmothers khichri, an Iraqi dish with Indian roots. In India, its known as khichdi, a rich, complex dish with rice, a legume, plenty of herbs and spices. The Iraqi version is much simpler with red lentils, rice, some turmeric and a topping of fried garlic and cumin in oil thats added to the pot of rice and lentils.

Its the food of poor people, and usually made before fasting, said Telem, who also recommended adding yogurt or a fried egg to make it a complete meal.

His version replaces the rice with cauliflower, allowing the vegetable to steam with the lentils.

Vegetables, said Telem, are just right for meal planning this Passover.

This is going to be a different holiday than ever before, and you have to manage creating a meal that feels festive, he said. The main agenda is to showcase vegetables as a way of making a regular meal feel festive.

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Within a matter of a few short weeks, our everyday lives have been upended as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many Jewish communities around the world, the Jewish community of Montreal has been hit hard by this crisis. Federation CJA has immediately leapt into action in collaboration with their agencies and community partners to ensure that needs continue to be met during this trying time. The Jewish Community Foundation has played a critical role in assisting Federation CJA, by immediately deploying $500,000 in much needed support from its emergency fund to assist frontline service providers from Federation CJA agencies and other community organizations like MADA, The Family Store, the Chessed Fund, synagogues and other organizations.

Within a few days of the initial announcement of school closures and social distancing measures, more than 200 volunteers were mobilized to provide immediate relief in several key areas. Ongoing food delivery services have been set up for the elderly, the immune compromised, and individuals who are not able to venture out. Delivery of kosher meals in a safe and contact-free manner ensure that no member of the community will go hungry during this crisis. Additionally, groceries, medications and household items are being delivered to these vulnerable groups.

Federation CJA and its affiliated social service agencies and partners have also banded together to distribute more than $500,000 worth of grocery gift cards to the communitys less fortunate, enabling them to purchase groceries and household items without worry during the initial weeks of this crisis.

Feelings of isolation and anxiety are being experienced by many at this uncertain time. A task force of volunteers has responded by making regular check-in calls to thousands of elderly and vulnerable members of the community, to continue the strong sense of support and connectedness generally provided by Federation CJA. A helpline has also been set up for individuals needing assistance.

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With community resources quickly being strained, in late March, Federation CJA and The Jewish Community Foundation launched a Community Crisis Response Fund appealing to members of the community to join in their emergency support of the most at-risk members. Funds raised go directly to the agencies and partner institutions to continue providing the vital services already initiated for the duration of this evolving crisis. The community is responding and over $530,000 was raised after just a few days of the initial launch of the campaign.

During these unprecedented times, we have seen the best of our Jewish community come together to respond to this crisis, says Yair Szlak, CEO of Federation CJA. COVID-19 does not distinguish between Sephardic or Ashkenazi; religious or secular or any of the other distinctions we have held onto in yesterdays. In times like this our strength is defined in our unity and resolve to support those who are vulnerable; the isolated seniors and holocaust survivors as well as families coping with loss of income due to layoffs. We are also united in our message of responsibility for one another, by staying home; isolating and making sure that this Passover is different from all others as we celebrate only with family members under our roofs. Most importantly, our collective prayers and thoughts are with those who are sick at this time as we wish them a Refuah Shlemah. Stronger together, the Montreal Jewish Community is resilient in the face of crisis.

If you or someone you know needs help, please call 514-734-1411 or email [emailprotected]

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The coronavirus pandemic could lead Haredim to rely less on rabbinic sages and think for themselves more when it comes to matters unrelated to religion, a leading expert on the community says.

Gilad Malach, who heads the Ultra-Orthodox in Israel program at the Israel Democracy Institute, does not predict a revolution regarding Haredi reverence for their religious role models. But he estimates that the current crisis, which is seeing thousands of members of the tight-knit community infected partially due to flawed decision-making by their leaders could accelerate an existing trend toward more individualism.

Last month, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky probably the most venerated rabbinical leader in the ultra-Orthodox world today was asked whether his hundreds of thousands of followers in the so-called Lithuanian branch of the community should obey or defy the Health Ministrys coronavirus orders to close educational institutions. He briefly answered that, of course, they should remain open.

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His decision meant countless kindergartens, schools and Talmud academies remained open in Beni Brak, a Haredi suburb of Tel Aviv, a move that experts said inevitably caused thousands of people to contract the virus.

Gilad Malach, who heads the Ultra-Orthodox in Israel program at the Israel Democracy Institute (courtesy IDI)

But Kanievsky (who subsequently reversed his position) and those who speak on his behalf are not the only ones to blame for the current crisis.

The government, particularly Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, also failed to properly prepare the ultra-Orthodox community, many of whom dont consume mainstream media, he said.

Many secular Israelis are angry at the Haredi community for its initial disregard of the pandemic-related rules, which could lead to discrimination against Haredi jobseekers and further alienation between the two groups, Malach said. This, in turn, could put the ultra-Orthodox on the defensive, causing the community to turn inward rather than outward.

Eventually, however, both communities will realize that its in everyones interest to cooperate, Malach assessed.

Following is a transcript of our conversation, edited for length and clarity.

The Times of Israel: Lets start with a general overview of the city of Bnei Brak. Who lives there?

Gilad Malach: Bnei Brak is the most densely populated city in Israel. More than 20,000 people live there per square kilometer. Altogether some 200,000 people live there almost all of them ultra-Orthodox. There are also some Orthodox and some traditional Jews, but my estimate is that 90 percent belong to the ultra-Orthodox community.

In this April 2, 2020 photo, Israeli police officers wearing protective gear wait to detain ultra-Orthodox men as they pray in a synagogue in Bnei Brak. (AP/Ariel Schalit )

There are various sub-groups: Hasidim and the so-called Lithuanians, Ashkenazim and Sephardim, other sects. Who sets the tone there?

Yes, overall its a diverse city where all the aforementioned groups coexist. The two largest Ashkenazi groups the Hasidim and the Lithuanians always ran together on one ticket in the municipal elections.

So its hard to know how large each groups power is. And about a third are the Sephardim, so I assume its fair to say that the general division of the ultra-Orthodox community in all of Israel a third Hasidim, a third Lithuanians and a third Sephardim also applies to Bnei Brak.

Is Rabbi Kanievsky, who instructed his followers to keep educational institutions open when the rest of society was closing them, considered an authority by everyone?

Hes the leader of the Lithuanians, but he has a certain dominance in that his rulings can have a certain influence on everyone. Even the other groups listen to what he has to say. The Lithuanians have in fact two leaders, him and Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, the head of the Ponevezh yeshiva.

But this is already a question of courts and Rabbi Kanievskys court has a more central and important standing since the previous leader of the generation Rabbi Aharon Yehudah Leib Steinman died [in 2017].

Thousands of mourners attend the funeral of Rabbi Aharon Yehudah Leib Steinman in Bnei Brak, December 12, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Lets talk about what caused Rabbi Kanievsky to rule that the educational institutions should stay open, when they were shut in the rest of the country. Someone whispered in his ear about the state wanting to close the kindergartens, and he said basically no way.

That man was his grandson Yanki. Hes the one calling the shots. He decides everything. He presented the matter to his grandfather in a very brief and tendentious way, without giving him all the information [about the dangers of the pandemic], which led him to make the scandalous decision not to close the institutions, even though the government had already decided that they should be closed. The results of this are harsh.

Would it be justified to say that this Yanki is responsible for the current situation?

There are three main reasons for the current situation. First, the leadership Rabbi Kanievskys grandson, but he himself, too. The fact that he didnt ask for more information is also a failure. He understands that there is a pandemic, so why doesnt he look into it more? Only saying that the Torah will help is not serious. Not every rabbi wouldve acted this way.

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky at his home in Bnei Brak on December 26, 2019. (Yaakov Nahumi/Flash90)

With all due respect to Rabbi Kanievsky, some argue that at age 92 hes become senile and says yes and amen to everything the people around him suggest that he doesnt really understand the situation.

I dont know if hes senile or not. But a leader is supposed to know if he understands something or not. If he realizes that hes not in the position to judge such things, he should say so. Part of the responsibility belongs to the leadership that includes the rabbis and their courts, which didnt follow the governments instructions. His grandson is part of that.

The second factor is the government. Its true that its not easy to communicate things to the Haredi public, but you have an ultra-Orthodox health minister who is well-connected to this community. If only he had gone to the rabbinical leaders and to the communal leaders and municipal authorities, which have great influence

Sixty percent of the ultra-Orthodox live in ultra-Orthodox cities or in Jerusalem. The municipal leaders have a great deal of power. [Litzman] enjoys a great deal of confidence, but he didnt use it. His ministry, too, should have done more.

Health Minister Yaakov Litzman participates as thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest in Bnei Brak over a battle over the control of an Ashkenazi synagogue in Arad, and against the secular mayor, Nissam Ben Hamo, a Yesh Atid party member, on December 20, 2016. (Photo by Flash90)

Third, there is the objective factor, if you will the great density in the ultra-Orthodox cities, and the fact that they are not connected to modern technology. They didnt see the pictures that we all saw, about the disaster in Italy and the sense of urgency in [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahusdramaticnear-nightly] press conferences and things like that.

How many ultra-Orthodox are still ignoring the governments instructions, or does everyone abide by them by now?

Overall, the vast majority now listens to the instructions, doesnt leave their houses for no reason and doesnt even go to synagogue. The great challenge now, which is not exclusive to the ultra-Orthodox, is Passover, because its a holiday on which people are used to visiting family, and its hard for them not to do that.

It was difficult for the ultra-Orthodox not to go to synagogue until they realized that there was no other choice. Now its also hard for them not to go visit their elderly parents. Its hard, but thats true for all Israelis, not just for them. So it may be necessary to enact some sort of lockdown on the day before Passover for everyone.

An ultra-Orthodox man crosses a main deserted street in Bnei Brak on April 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

But I think theres great worry [about the coronavirus], even within the ultra-Orthodox community. The combination of a clear government prohibition on going out, coupled with the fact that the rabbis have now joined that call, plus police enforcement, will help.

Rabbi Kanievsky initially said the educational institutions should stay open, which experts say inevitably caused thousands of people to contract the virus. Will his poor judgment call have a lasting impact on ultra-Orthodox society? Will the community challenge the authority of elderly sages or will they continue to reign supreme?

In general terms, when a leader fails he will very quickly feel the backlash. I remember the Second Lebanon War nearly 15 years ago. [Ehud] Olmert started the war with very high popularity; his approval rating was 80 to 90 percent. But as the war progressed and the public got the impression that it was being handled horribly, his ratings tanked, and he could never recover from that.

As opposed to the past, many ultra-Orthodox were exposed to the video [showing Rabbi Kanievsky telling his grandson to keep the educational institutions open]. They saw that hes not really understanding the issue.

A very large percentage of the community connects to the internet, despite the rabbis prohibiting it

But this reliance on their religious leaders is the anchor of the community, it is so deeply entrenched in ultra-Orthodox society that one has to obey the leader of the generation. Therefore it is very difficult to make the switch and say, maybe hes less relevant in certain areas. So I dont foresee a revolution in this regard.

What I do see happening is many people will start making decision for themselves for certain things. This trend, which we have seen for a while now, could certainly be strengthened. We saw more than 10,000 ultra-Orthodox go to academic institutions in recent years, despite the rabbis being against it. A very large percentage of the community connects to the internet, despite the rabbis prohibiting it.

An Israeli university student (L) and ultra-Orthodox yeshiva student (R) (Yonatan Sindel and Nati Shohat, Flash90)

So the people are saying, I respect the rabbinical leaders, I appreciate them, I will even vote for the party they support. But in my own personal choices I will not necessarily obey. [The coronavirus pandemic] could definitely deepen these processes call it individualism regarding decision-making.

There have always been tensions between secular Israelis and the ultra-Orthodox community. To what extent will the events of the last few days further exacerbate them? What would happen if, God forbid, we see the health system break down in two weeks because thousands of people from Bnei Brak become sick?

The level of hostility is really very high. There is a lot of anger at the ultra-Orthodox, because of the way in which they responded to the governments instructions. Sometimes this finds expression in very harsh comments on social media and the press. It exists, though I dont think that it could turn violent.

But I do think that it could affect workplaces. Were in the middle of an economic crisis, with very high unemployment. So this could have an impact on employers that may say, I dont want to get close to ultra-Orthodox, or I dont want to let them have a part in my enterprise.

Police arrest an ultra-Orthodox man as they close a synagogue in the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem for violating emergency directives to contain the coronavirus, on March 30, 2020. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

On the other hand, when ultra-Orthodox society is being exposed to such things it immediately becomes defensive, like a herd that is attacked and flocks together.

The economic crisis could speed up the process of the ultra-Orthodox joining the workforce and opening up to academic studies and technology. But if the feeling is that, In every generation they rise up to destroy us, and the ones that are rising up to destroy them now are the secular, this will actually slow this process, because it strengthens the feeling of belonging to the group.

So bottom line, how do you think secular-ultra-Orthodox relations will look by the end of the year?

I am generally optimistic. I think that the harsh criticism of the ultra-Orthodox will not remain at the center of attention, but rather life itself. After all, most people who are not ultra-Orthodox want them to integrate.

And the readiness to integrate will also prevail on the ultra-Orthodox side of the equation theres no alternative, given the economic situation. These things will be stronger, eventually, than the strong emotions that exist today.

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A coalition agreement between the Likud and Blue and White parties will be finalized no later than Friday afternoon, sources from both parties said Thursday evening.A deal must be reached by Friday to enable parties in the coalition to bring the agreement to their institutions on Sunday and allow a vote in the Knesset to approve the government on Monday. The Knesset does not meet during Passover, which begins on Wednesday evening and lasts for a week. Blue and White leader Benny Gantzs mandate to form a government, and the leverage that comes with it, ends during the holiday.Progress was made between the two parties as they made compromises on disputed portfolios.I feel the negotiations with the Likud are about to be completed, said Blue and White MK Chili Tropper, who is close to Gantz.Likud agreed to let the Justice Ministry go to Blue and White faction chairman Avi Nissenkorn. Blue and White accepted the appointment of the Likuds Miri Regev as internal security minister.Blue and White agreed to give up the Foreign Ministry, which Netanyahu reportedly wants to give to former Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein of Likud. But it could go to Yamina leader Naftali Bennett. In return, Likud gave up the education portfolio, which will go to Blue and White MK Gabi Ashkenazi.The Foreign Ministry would be a good consolation prize for Edelstein, who lost his post as Knesset speaker after leading the Likuds fight against the Supreme Court. It would free the speaker post for Likud minister Yariv Levin, who is close to Netanyahu and heads the Likuds coalition negotiating team. Yamina threatened to stay out of the coalition if it does not receive the education portfolio. Yamina MK Ayelet Shaked said in a Channel 12 interview that if Yamina was not included in the coalition, the party would be a fighting right-wing opposition to Netanyahus governmentWe are not part of the game of musical chairs between Netanyahu and Gantz, Yamina said in an official statement. We dont intend to be a fig leaf in a left-wing government that gave away the Justice Ministry and will end chances of expressing sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.Among the partys goals if it goes into the opposition, the statement listed fighting corruption in bold. Sources close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Likud made an offer to Yamina, but Yaminas demand of four ministers for six MKs was unrealistic.Yesh Atid said fighting corruption should not depend on whether a party is in the coalition, and if Yamina joins Netanyahus government, it would be part of his corruption.

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