To Observant Jews, New York Times Cooking Offers a Pre-Passover Insult
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The New York Times food section is celebrating the Passover holiday by recommending a recipe for "matzo" that the newspaper itself acknowledges is not kosher for Passover. At least one rabbinic authority says the crackers the Times is touting are "hametz"—leavened bread that is the opposite of the unleavened bread that Jewish law requires for the holiday. A Times feature by Melissa Clark repeatedly and openly acknowledges—once in the subheadline, twice in the article, and once in the
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