Word: matzo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goes without saying, but this flight broke new ground in even this area. We were traveling to Poland as part of a Jewish youth group program, so our travel agent ordered all of us kosher meals. The means we got were more than kosher: Boxes if Passover Matzo. We checked our calendars; nope, it was June...
Opening Day was Friday and the first pitch was received with wide acclaim: "cocktail size" pizza bagels, a taste of Deli Day with (truly) kosher style-pickles and half-sour tomatoes, the requisite box of matzo and a bit of Israeli flavor with Elite vanilla-flavored wafers. Berry really did something right by getting hold of beef franks in bagel dough, produced in Spring Valley, NY, home of Hillel Chair Shai A. Held '94. How better to butter up a constituency...
...Israeli defense ministry and its amen corner in the U.S." New York Times columnist A.M. Rosenthal accused Buchanan of anti-Semitism and "blood libel" (a reference to the canard leveled by bigots since the Middle Ages that Jews kill Christian children and use their blood in making Passover matzo). Rosenthal's attack was so outrageous that Buchanan survived the storm...
With the approach of Passover, supermarkets are carrying abundant supplies of matzo, the unleavened bread consumed during the Seder ceremony as a reminder of the Jews' tribulations under Pharaoh and their flight from Egypt. But last week a federal grand jury declared that the holiday price of matzo has not been kosher...
...indictment handed down in Newark, the Government charged that the B. Manischewitz Co., the largest U.S. matzo baker, conspired with other firms to fix the price of products worth $25 million from 1981 to 1986. Jersey City- based Manischewitz is accused of exploiting the increased demand for matzo during the eight-day holiday by arranging "agreed-upon increases" for a variety of matzo items. Manischewitz denies the charges, saying its prices were "independently and fairly determined...