Seen through the glass door of the Great Synagogue, Rabbi Shlomo Sorin Rosen speaks to members of the Romanian Jewish community in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, March 29, 2010, at the beginning of the Passover holiday. The religious festival of Passover is a week-long festival which commemorates the exodus of the ancient Hebrews from Egypt.
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men crowd around a spring as they collect water to make matzoh, a traditional handmade Passover unleavened bread, near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beit Horon, Sunday, March, 28, 2010. The water is used to prepare the traditional unleavened bread for the high holiday of Passover, which begins at sundown on Monday, March 29.
An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man reads a prayer as others burn leavened items in a final preparation before the Passover holiday in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, March 29, 2010. All leavened food, such as bread, is forbidden to Jews during the week-long Passover holiday commemorating the Israelites’ departure from Egypt.
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men burn leavened items in a final preparation before the Passover holiday in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, March 29, 2010. All leavened food, such as bread, is forbidden to Jews during the week-long Passover holiday commemorating the Israelites’ departure from Egypt.
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, second right, helps unveil a large matzoh, claimed to be the largest in the world according to the Jerusalem municipality, in Jerusalem, Thursday, March 25, 2010. It took 40 people to make the large piece of unleavened bread, which is a main feature of the week-long Passover holiday, commemorating the biblical exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. The Passover festival begins Monday at sundown.
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men burn leavened items in a final preparation before the week-long observance of Passover in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, March 29, 2010.
Israeli workers of “Matzot Aviv” bakery load matzoh, unleavened bread, into boxes in the town of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Thursday, March 25, 2010. The unleavened bread is a main feature of the week-long Passover holiday, commemorating the biblical exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.
Ethiopian immigrants taste matzoh during a Passover dinner rehearsal introducing the holiday customs at the immigrant absorption center in Mevasseret Zion outside Jerusalem, Thursday, March 25, 2010.
An Israeli girl poses for a picture in front of a large matzoh, claimed to be the largest in the world according to the Jerusalem municipality, in Jerusalem, Thursday, March 25, 2010. It took 40 people to make the large piece of unleavened bread.
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men crowd around a spring near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beit Horon, Sunday, March, 28, 2010. The water wil be used to prepare matzoh, the traditional unleavened bread for the high holiday of Passover which begins at sundown Monday, March 29.
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men crowd around a spring near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beit Horon, Sunday, March, 28, 2010. The water wil be used to prepare matzoh, the traditional unleavened bread for the high holiday of Passover which begins at sundown Monday, March 29.
An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish child sits next to piles of potatoes that are distributed to large families for free, in a special market in preparations for the upcoming Passover holiday in Jerusalem, on Wednesday, March 24, 2010. The week-long festival which commemorates the exodus of the ancient Hebrews from Egypt begins on March 29.
An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man dunks silverware into boiling water used for cleansing kitchen items in preparation for the coming Jewish holiday of Passover in Jerusalem, Thursday, March 25, 2010. All leavened food, such as bread, are forbidden to Jews during the week-long Passover holiday, commemorating the Israelites’ hasty departure from Egypt.