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matzah

American  
[maht-suh, mah-tsah, mah-tsaw] / ˈmɑt sə, mɑˈtsɑ, ˈmɑ tsɔ /

noun

  • matzahs,
    plural
  • matzoth,
    plural
  • matzot,
    plural
  • matzos
    plural
  1. a variant of matzo.


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Jewish mothers are proud when their son or daughter become successful in sports, but then there’s the greatest honor of all: their child appearing on a matzah box.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

There is only one thing on the menu that I wouldn't order: the duck matzah ball soup.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2022

The walls of the centre are covered in smiling photos of family gatherings and a box of matzah stapled to a display of a shabbat meal.

From BBC ● May 8, 2022

The figure includes 70,000 pounds of matzah, the unleavened bread essential to Passover observance; 14,500 gallons of grape juice; and more than 50 tons of kosher meat and chicken.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 18, 2022

Religions bring the sacred into our lives with Gothic churches, Muslim mosques, Hindu ashrams, Torah scrolls, Tibetan prayer wheels, priestly cassocks, candles, incense, Christmas trees, matzah balls, tombstones and icons.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

He said the group would also make special efforts to distribute shmura matzahs to those Ukrainian Jews who were unable to flee the fighting.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 12, 2022

Why is this matzah different from all other matzahs?

From Washington Times ● Apr. 12, 2022

Equally poignant, he noted, is that April 12 was the 120th birth anniversary of the Rebbe, sparking the Lubavitcher movement to ramp up distribution of the shmura matzahs.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 12, 2022

Alongside the plate are three matzos — or unleavened flatbread — that symbolize Jewish resistance and faith.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2023

If you don’t prefer gluten-free matzos, substitute a traditional matzo mix, she also notes.

From Fox News ● Nov. 30, 2021

This Sunday and next also offer the museum’s Matzo Factory, at 1, 1:45 and 2:30 p.m., in which children can thresh and grind wheat and bake their own matzos to take home for Passover.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2016

About 2.5 million pounds of matzos were baked for April’s Passover holiday and distributed worldwide.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 30, 2015

Mother said that making matzos teaches us to realize what some of the hardships were that our forefathers went through in Egypt.

From Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago by Hannah Trager

In one story, it is 1959 and Mr. Lois is a young ad man with the Goodman’s matzot account.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022

Finally, with ten tons of matzoth spilling over five postal substations, officials called the Sanitary Engineering department and requested that it cart the matzoth off and burn them.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the first time since the Romans leveled Jerusalem 1,800 years ago, a Jewish army ate Passover matzoth and bitter herbs around campfires in the field.

From Time Magazine Archive

After feasting on chicken soup with matzoth balls, gefilte fish, and boiled beef with horseradish, it is inconceivable that one drop of animosity toward Israel could remain in Feisal's kingly body.

From Time Magazine Archive

But in many of these places, one does not live by matzoth, pita or tortillas alone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Add one teaspoon of matzoth meal and pinch of salt.

From The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; the Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc. by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum

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