Brittle flat bread eaten at Passover.
1Aside from matzoh or challah, few Jewish foods were as ubiquitous.
2But we broke it, and the matzoh went in crumbs on the ground.
3And he shared a bowl of matzoh ball soup with her.
4I had made this myself; no store-bought matzoh for me.
5Pasta, wine, matzoh, and pickles were also produced in the tenements, foods made by immigrants for immigrants.
7Rabbi Loew blessed the third matzoh, broke it up and passed the pieces around so that we could all take a bite.
8We washed our hands, bowed our heads, and said the blessings, then Rabbi Loew broke the matzoh and passed it around the circle.
9I waited till Federn was sipping his second cup of wine and nibbling on his second matzoh before opening up the subject of our visit.
10But you make me lay off the Matzoh and you're givin' me the needle.
11Just as they remember that we slaughter little children, always before Pesach, and bake their blood in matzohs.
12Why do we eat only Matzoh?
13So maybe it's not an Afikoman, but it's one of the other matzohs on the plate with the Afikoman.
14"They just don't have matzoh ball soup like this in California," he said, and she grinned, and looked more like herself.
15Aside from matzoh or challah, few Jewish foods were as ubiquitous.
16But we broke it, and the matzoh went in crumbs on the ground.