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The New York Times food section is celebrating the Passover holiday by recommending a recipe for “matzo” that the newspaper itself acknowledges is not kosher for Passover. At least one rabbinic authority says the crackers the Times is touting are “hametz”—leavened bread that is the opposite of the unleavened bread that Jewish law requires for the holiday.
A Times feature by Melissa Clark repeatedly and openly acknowledges—once in the subheadline, twice in the article, and once in the accompanying recipe—that the food is not kosher for Passover. The story makes a halfhearted attempt at a justification, attributed to chef Hillary Sterling of “Italian-infected” restaurant Ci Siamo, whose menu includes pork Milanese. “These dishes aren’t strictly traditional or kosher, but all of them have good stories behind them. And telling those stories together, Ms. Sterling said, is why we gather at the Passover table.”
Leave it to the New York Times to consult a pork-selling chef on the reasons for the Passover holiday rather than, say, the Hebrew Bible. The Bible has explanations like, “You shall celebrate it as a festival to GOD throughout the ages … Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the very first day you shall remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day to the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.” (Exodus 12:14-12:15) Or Exodus 12:19, “No leaven shall be found in your houses for seven days. For whoever eats what is leavened, that person—whether a stranger or a citizen of the country—shall be cut off from the community of Israel.” Or Exodus 13:6, “Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a festival of GOD.”
The Times matzo recipe is the latest in a long line of examples of the newspaper being clumsy around food and Jewish holidays. In 2016, a Times article headlined, “For Juicy Beef for Your Seder Table, Look Beyond Brisket” generated a classic Times correction: “An earlier version of this article incorrectly implied that beef tenderloin is kosher and appropriate for Passover. It is not kosher, but other cuts of beef that are kosher may be used in the recipe in its place.” In 2024 the Times magazine ran an article attacking the Passover Seder as being too focused on Jews rather than on others. “I’ve been to a lot of Passover celebrations … and it’s so weird that the story is only of Jewish subjugation, even though subjugation is still so present for other people,” the article quoted a far-left activist as saying.
On social media, the non-kosher “matzo” recipe was seen as on-brand for the Times. “New York Times promoting a homemade matzoh recipe that isn’t kosher for passover is definitely on the nose,” commented Yoni Freedhoff, a professor of family medicine at the University of Ottawa.
And on the Times’s own website, reader comments were negative. “I’m saddened … Next time be more sensitive to the importance of what matzah is representing,” wrote one commenter, upvoted by 13 readers.
“Why would you share a matzo recipe that isn’t kosher for Passover?” asked another commenter.
“Matzo recipe that’s not kosher for Passover — and I thought that I’d seen it all,” said another commenter.
“If its similar to Sardinian flatbread, but not kosher for Passover, why would you call it matzo and not Sardinian flatbread? I guess anything too kosher, too jewish, or too israeli (Pearl couscous) just isn’t right for the NYT,” said another commenter, Golda. Golda is right; the Times indeed stopped using the term Israeli couscous and started referring instead to “pearl couscous.”
The ingredients for the flatbread or cracker that the Times is mislabeling as matzo include salt, olive oil, flour, and water. The recipe involves stirring, forming the dough into a ball, “cover with a plate or plastic wrap, and let rest for 15 minutes.”
The resting was the main concern for one rabbinic authority. Rabbi Ethan Tucker, president and Rosh Yeshiva at Hadar, ordained by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and with a doctorate in Talmud and Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary, explained in response to my query: “the biggest thing is: ‘let rest for 15 minutes’! You cannot have planned idle time with the dough and once there is idle time more than 15 minutes (and there will be 3 minutes scattered throughout the rest of the process with the cutting, etc.) you are in hametz land, at least for Ashkenazim, who do not require the 18 minutes of idleness to be consecutive.”
One tradition the Times does revere is what it calls “the tradition of putting an orange on the Seder plate as an act of inclusion of L.G.B.T.Q. Jews,” though even there the Times leaps from the orange to kumquat. Anyway, “not kosher for Passover” seems to me like the Times’s attempt at a sophisticated way of saying leavened rather than unleavened, or hametz rather than matzo. “Cut off from the community of Israel” is actually a pretty accurate description of whatever is happening over at that publication, in more ways than one.
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The real conspiracy is white people.
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A South African civic group called March and March held a rally in the city of Durban on Wednesday to call for tougher immigration laws and stronger border controls. The group was particularly critical of migrants from Nigeria, denouncing them as parasitic and prone to crime.
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The attorney representing an illegal alien accused of murdering 18-year-old Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman claims her client is “severely brain damaged and disabled.” 
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A Secret Service agent escorting Dr. Jill Biden, former acting president of the United States, reportedly “shot himself” in the leg Friday morning at the Philadelphia airport. The incident raises some serious questions about what the agent—who was taken to the hospital in stable condition—might have known about the Biden family and their myriad controversies.
Local news sources report that the Secret Service agent was sitting in a black unmarked Chevy Suburban when he “accidentally” discharged “his” weapon and suffered a non-life-threatening injury to his leg. He was escorting Dr. Biden at the time, but the former first lady was not present when the gun went off and was unable to provide medical care on the scene. No one else was hurt. The Secret Service and local police are investigating.
Dr. Biden has been a source of considerable intrigue for years. Former White House aides have likened working for the Bidens to “serving a cult” and being bullied by middle school “mean girls.” The former first lady was widely regarded as a ruthless operator who craved authority—not least because she could use it to crush her enemies. “She likes power,” historian Douglas Brinkley said in 2024, months prior to Joe Biden’s infamous debate on CNN. “She wants to stay. She wants some sense of revenge.” Underlying the relentless criticism of Dr. Biden’s handling of her husband’s infirmity—Nancy Pelosi’s daughter famously denounced her as “Lady McBiden”—was a lingering trepidation as to what she might do once the power and the ability to exact revenge had been wrenched from her bony claws.
The incident occurred less than three weeks after Dr. Biden announced that her new memoir, View From the East Wing, would hit stores in early June. Alas, journalists were the only ones who noticed—which is to say, nobody noticed. Authorities have yet to publicly rule out the possibility that the “accidental” and “self-inflicted” gunshot incident was part of a desperate scheme to drum up publicity for the book. It’s safe to assume that Dr. Biden is still fuming after another book about her life, Jill: A Biography of the First Lady, sold just 250 copies in its first week of publication in 2022.
Before the memoir announcement, the Biden family had receded almost entirely from public view. Reports from last fall suggested the Bidens were broke and struggling to raise money for a presidential library. Hunter Biden, the degenerate crackhead whose painting career mysteriously dried up, was sounding off on podcasts. He appears to have found some work. Next month, Hunter will moderate a talent show in Los Angeles that is expected to include “battle rappers,” “live magicians,” and a “forbidden video screening.”
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Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and top commander of the Ugandan military, said on Wednesday that his forces are “ready to assist” Israel in battle with Iran.
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An Arizona gun dealer is facing terrorism charges in connection with a conspiracy to provide weapons to both Cartel Jalisco New Generation and the Sinaloa Cartel. Both Mexican cartels are designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. Department of State.
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U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) Chairman Laura DiBella on Thursday warned that the FMC is closely monitoring a surge in detentions of Panama-flagged vessels by Chinese authorities after the Panamanian Supreme court annulled contracts that gave Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison control of two key Panama Canal ports.
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The United States should not greenlight Chinese drugs while drowning American companies in red tape, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said during an event with Breitbart News, highlighting the threats of China.
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The liberal brains at Time magazine really had to think hard to come up with a way to make Iranians look good and the Republicans look bad. So the top story of their Time.com newsletter today was: “The Iranians Stuck Between ICE Detention and Deportation to War-Torn Homeland.” Naturally, it’s a gay couple stuck in Trump’s cruel web. Reporter Philip Wang began: 

When Ali and Adel showed up at the southern border in El Paso, Texas in 2025 after traveling thousands of miles from Iran, they believed that America was a place of freedom and opportunity.

Instead, the Iranian gay couple found themselves in separate ICE detention facilities hundreds of miles apart, facing the threat of deportation back to Iran. TIME is using pseudonyms to protect their safety.

They always love using pseudonyms for any Trump “victims” because it makes them sound like they’re in great danger. Liberal outlets love to use this for pro-Hamas protesters and ICE-busting radicals, too. 

The couple, one in his late 30s and the other in his early 40s, fled Iran for Turkey in 2021 after being arrested by Iran’s morality police who opened a criminal investigation into their relationship—same-sex activity is punishable by death in Iran. Soon after, fearing for their safety, they left Turkey for Mexico and eventually arrived in the U.S.

The next obvious step in this publicity is to run all the defense lawyer’s talking points: 

Wolf said Adel’s condition is particularly alarming. He suffered severe organ damage after the couple was attacked in Mexico en route to the U.S., and has since lost a significant amount of weight and experienced fainting episodes while in detention.

“He’s incredibly frail, to the point where he could no longer ambulate. He couldn’t walk because of the pain,” Wolf said. “He had to have other detainees pick him up and carry him to the bathroom and to the shower, which was incredibly distressing.”

Then comes the data points of an anti-Trump project from professors at UCLA and UC-Berkeley: 

Ali and Adel are among hundreds of Iranians facing an impossible choice: remaining in a U.S. immigration system increasingly defined by mass deportation, or returning to an authoritarian regime that represses its citizens. According to data from the Deportation Data Project, ICE arrested at least 432 Iranians in 2025, more than half of whom had neither been convicted of a crime nor were facing pending criminal charges at the time of their arrest.

If either of these poor unfortunate souls had any criminal record, you wouldn’t know, since they’re kept pseudonymous. 

The second item in this “news” letter also seemed more like a press release: “Here’s Which Cities Are Likely to Host the Biggest No Kings Protests.” Chantelle Lee touted the Saturday protests against evil Trump: “This Saturday could be the largest day of domestic political protest in U.S. history, according to event organizers.” Left-wing protests are often presented in the rosy view of “event organizers.”