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shmura matzah

Streit's co-owners Aaron Gross, far left, and Aron Yagoda, far right, give two young visitors a tour of the matzah factory. (Courtesy Streit's via JTA)
April 11, 2025, 4:36 am
How your matzah gets made: A peek inside NY’s Streit’s factory
First opened in New York’s Lower East Side a century ago, the US bakery now supplies ritual Passover flat breads to seder tables as far away as Europe, South Africa and Israel
By Joseph Strauss
Yedidya Harush stands next to boxes of matzah made in his matzah bakery in Netivot on April 8, 2024 (Credit: Maya Zanger-Nadis/Times of Israel).
April 11, 2024, 1:09 pm
From battleground to bakery: The mission to support a Gaza-border community with matzah
Yedidya Harush straddles military and civilian life as his Netivot bakery provides needed employment – and handmade matzah to thousands of IDF soldiers and evacuees for Passover
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Factories in Ukraine account for about 15-20% of the market share in the US for shmura matzah. (Courtesy of Meyer Stambler/ via JTA)
March 31, 2022, 6:34 am
War in Ukraine threatens to put the crunch on matzah prices in US
The 20,000 pounds of the unleavened bread languishing in an Odesa port represents 10% of the country’s annual exports to the US, and a local rabbi thinks the market will feel it
By David I. Klein
Illustrative: Matzahs travel on the production line of the Tiferet HaMatzot factory in Dnepro, Ukraine, December 8, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
March 26, 2021, 11:18 pm
Why Jews in former Soviet Union eat most matzah per capita
In Azerbaijan people consume 2.7 pounds per person, in Russia 2.4 pounds — dwarfing the average consumption of unleavened bread cracker among most Jews
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A woman shops for matzah at a supermarket in Jerusalem on March 31, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90/File)
April 2, 2020, 7:58 pm
Consumer council finds massive price differences in Passover products
With large price gaps between supermarkets for matzah and Passover items such as potato starch, consumers advised to compare prices, which, overall, are similar to last year’s
By Sue Surkes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holding a shmura matzah at a matzah factory in Kfar Chabad, Israel, prior to the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover, April 1, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)
April 7, 2016, 9:52 pm
What makes shmura matzah the caviar of flatbread?
Seder-goers can’t seem to get enough of the hand-crafted, meticulously supervised unleavened bread, even for up to $60 a pound
By Uriel Heilman
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