matzah

Growing up in New York in the ‘50s I was naïve to scam artists. We knew to respect our parents and be helpful to our neighbors. The police were heroes we looked up to. At the same time we also knew that some things were sacred. I remember my mother preparing me a special lunch to take to public school during the week of Passover. Since the bible instructed Jews to refrain from all leaven for 8 days, we switched from cake and bread to matzah, the unleavened bread eaten by our ancestors when Mose