Passover

• By DANIELLA CHESLOW Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - The Jewish springtime Passover holiday is known as a festival of freedom, but its hallmark is a litany of dietary restrictions centered on not eating leavened bread for a week.
(msnbc.com)
• LOS ANGELES -- Coca-Cola may be off the menu for the Passover feast -- at least in California.
(Inside Bay Area)
• Passover -- the ancient Hebrew exodus from Egypt -- has been a rallying cry for freedom for thousands of years.
(Huffington Post)
• "Oh Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool!" That insanely anachronistic bit of dialogue was uttered by Anne Baxter's Egyptian Queen Nefretiri to Charlton Heston's Moses in the 1956 version of "The Ten Commandments." Cecil B.
(MSN TV)
• As we prepare for Passover seder here is my question: Are you an Israelite or an Egyptian? I don't mean the Egyptians of today, of course.
(Washington Post)
• Today, President Obama released his annual Passover message – and, as usual, he used it as an opportunity for political grandstanding. Last year, Obama used his message to compare the Jewish exodus from Egypt with the Islamist Arab Spring.
(Big Hollywood)
• In 1999, about a year before he died, I had the privilege of attending a reading by the great Jerusalem poet Yehuda Amichai in the Upper West Side.
(Daily Beast)
• This dessert was inspired by the very popular Mallomar-like treat sold during the winter months in Israel, called Krembo (in Hebrew, "cream in it"). Krembo is originally from Denmark, but Israel is now the world's leading manufacturer.
(Washington Post)
• In this week's Recipes for Health, Martha Rose Shulman takes us on a tour of the Mediterranean to discover a Sephardic Passover meal, with dishes from Turkey, Greece, North Africa and the Middle East.
(New York Times Blogs)
• Tonight, Jews in metro Detroit will gather in homes for the Passover seder, a religious dinner that tells the story of their escape from slavery.
(Detroit Free Press)