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Rabbi Joseph Schwartz, left, and Ryan Eleazar use boiling water to kosherize equipment for the Hanan Products' kosher-for-passover production run Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. in Hicksville, N.Y. At Hanan Products, which since 1946 has made primarily whipped toppings, icings and dessert fillings for the bakery industry, cleaning and production for kosher-for-Passover products begin long before the weeklong holiday that this year starts in late March. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

AP PHOTOS: At a kosher food maker, a special Passover run

By SETH WENIG - Associated Press

Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Levi Banon and his son Mendel, 12, read a religious text at their home library in Casablanca, Morocco, Thursday, May 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

In Morocco, tiny Jewish community grapples with virus

By MARIAM FAM - Associated Press

Wyoming congregations maintain community amid distancing

By MELISSA CASSUTT and GABE ALLEN - Associated Press

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish men wears a face mask as children burn leavened items in final preparation for the Passover holiday in the Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. Jerusalem authorities have said they will gather the bread and burn it in a big bonfire in one location to avoid large gatherings. But, some in the Mea Shearim neighborhood shunned the orders. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Passover in isolation dampens holiday mood in Israel

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, March 26, 2020 file photo, a boy carries a box of matzos for Passover that he picked up from his synagogue in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The coronavirus has forced Jewish families to limit the celebratory Passover meals known as seders from extended families and friends to small, one-household affairs. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Jews prep for a pandemic Passover: Smaller but no less vital

By ELANA SCHOR - Associated Press

San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore, center, arrives with other law enforcement officials outside of the Chabad of Poway Synagogue Saturday, April 27, 2019, in Poway, Calif. Several people were injured in a shooting at the synagogue. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

Latest: Rabbi identifies the victims of synagogue shooting

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Two people hug as another talks to a San Diego County Sheriff's deputy outside of the Chabad of Poway Synagogue Saturday, April 27, 2019, in Poway, Calif. Several people have been shot and injured at a synagogue in San Diego, California, on Saturday, said San Diego County authorities. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

Chabad of Poway synagogue shooting: Man detained, multiple injuries reported

By Andrew Blake and Maria Stainer - The Washington Times

An exterior view of the Altman Family Chabad Community Center at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue Saturday, April 27, 2019, in Poway, Calif. Several people were injured in a shooting at the synagogue. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

‘THIS MUST STOP’: Reaction to the synagogue shooting

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., listens during a House Oversight and Reform Committee meeting, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Rashida Tlaib’s Passover greeting falls flat

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., sits with fellow Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee during a bill markup, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2019. House Democrats are rounding the first 100 days of their new majority taking stock of their accomplishments, noting the stumbles and marking their place as a frontline of resistance to President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Embattled US Rep. Ilhan Omar tweets ‘happy Passover’

Associated Press

Members of the ancient Samaritan community participates in the ritual of Passover Sacrifice on Mount Gerizim, overlooking the West Bank town of Nablus, Thursday, April 18, 2019. Samaritans descended from the ancient Israelite tribes of Menashe and Efraim but broke away from mainstream Judaism 2,800 years ago. Today, the remaining 700 Samaritans live in the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank and the Israeli seaside town of Holon, south of Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Christian pilgrims march through Jerusalem for Good Friday

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

Striking workers stand on a picket line outside the Stop &amp; Shop supermarket in Revere, Mass., Thursday, April 18, 2019. Some Jewish families in southern New England are preparing for Passover without the region's largest supermarket chain. Thousands of workers remain on strike and rabbis in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island are advising their congregations not to cross the picket lines. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Rabbis: ‘Not kosher’ to buy at grocery store during strike

By Philip Marcelo - Associated Press

Faith and the Nation Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

The significance of faith

By Robert Charles

Psychiatric help, then prison for Jewish center bomb plotter

By CURT ANDERSON - Associated Press

White House press secretary Sean Spicer speaks to moderator Greta Van Susteren at the Newseum in Washington, Wednesday, April 12, 2017, during &quot;The President and the Press: The First Amendment in the First 100 Days&quot; forum. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Spicer says Hitler comment ‘inexcusable and reprehensible’

By KEN THOMAS and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

Tufts student senate divestment vote sparks outrage

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this April 18, 2016 photo, Rabbi Raphael Berdugo checks parsley for insects as part of the preparation for the Passover holiday at the Waldorf Astoria resort at Disney World in Orlando, Fla. More than 1,000 Jews are expected to stay at the resort and take part in the eight day celebration. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

TRAVEL: Passover vacation niche grows to dozens of destinations

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Easter more pagan than Christian?

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this Wed., March 25, 2015 photo provided by Matthew Christopher, participants attend Freedom Seder Revisited at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. The event embraces gentiles for an evening of storytelling, music and a taste of traditional Passover food and rituals as it honors the original interfaith Freedom Seder held in 1969 in Washington, D.C., on the first anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. (AP Photo/Courtesy Matthew Christopher)

Passover: Welcoming gentiles for Seder a strong tradition

By LEANNE ITALIE - Associated Press