Word: matzoth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From Armenian to Ukrainian, practically every cuisine in the world is available in New York City's 20,000 restaurants. But in many of these places, one does not live by matzoth, pita or tortillas alone. People go to some restaurants to see or be seen. Visitors are usually torn about trying those famous-and expensive -places that often threaten humiliation in some Siberia or ketchup room reserved for anonymous (to the maitre d') citizens...
...Strait of Gibraltar she was joined by a British destroyer. The Q.E.'s crew was augmented for the occasion by at least 50 security men and several Labrador retrievers whose mission was to sniff out any explosives that might be hidden within the ship. With three tons of matzoth in the pantry to be served during the eight-day Passover, one joke circulating on board was that, if necessary, the passengers could always float to safety on a raft of unleavened bread...
...began one morning before Passover. Soviet embassy officials in Washington found in their mail a number of boxes of matzoth, the traditional unleavened wafers used to celebrate the Jewish holiday. There were more matzoth the next day, and more the next-literally tons of them. Soviet diplomats, by now well-accustomed to confrontations with Jewish organizations over the treatment of Soviet Jews, quickly devised a counterploy: they refused to accept delivery and dumped the matzoth into the laps of the U.S. Postal Service...
Postal authorities were baffled; rarely had they encountered a logistics problem of this scope. Finally, with ten tons of matzoth spilling over five postal substations, officials called the Sanitary Engineering department and requested that it cart the matzoth off and burn them...
...cantor and choir for Seder services. In Connecticut, a self-proclaimed congregation of Jewish humanists fashions a Passover Haggadah (the Seder narrative) that manages to avoid any mention of God. In Manhattan, an ecumenical group of friends sits down to a classic Seder meal including the symbolic foods: matzoth, bitter herbs and haunch of spring lamb. After reading the Haggadah, the group invites one of the Christians present to read from the New Testament; he chooses the passage in Luke where Jesus celebrates his Passover meal, the Last Supper...