{"id":580,"date":"2008-03-28T16:11:15","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T16:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2008\/03\/factory-delay-means-no-matzo-c.php"},"modified":"2008-03-28T16:11:15","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T16:11:15","slug":"factory-delay-means-no-matzo-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2008\/03\/factory-delay-means-no-matzo-c","title":{"rendered":"Factory Delay Means No Matzo Crackers for Passover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Beth Fitzgerald<br \/>\nReligion News Service <\/strong><br \/>\nNEWARK, N.J. (RNS) When Passover begins on April 19 and Jewish families gather for the traditional seder meal, they can expect this question: &#8220;What happened to the Tam Tams?&#8221;<br \/>\nThe bite-sized matzo crackers are a Passover perennial, perfect for dipping in egg salad or chopped liver and eating straight from the box.<br \/>\nBut Manischewitz, the global kosher food producer, has temporarily stopped making Tam Tams because of production problems at its Newark plant.<br \/>\nA $15 million oven that was supposed to debut in October didn&#8217;t come on line until December, Manischewitz spokesman David Rossi said. That didn&#8217;t leave enough time to produce the company&#8217;s full line of matzo products for Passover.<br \/>\n&#8220;We realized there are only so many hours in the day that we can make matzos, and something had to give,&#8221; Rossi said. That something turned out to be the Tam Tams.<br \/>\nMatzo is a flat bread or cracker made without yeast, so the dough won&#8217;t rise before it is baked. The eating of matzo is an essential part of the Passover seder, which commemorates the Hebrew slaves&#8217; hasty exodus from Egypt.<br \/>\nManischewitz introduced Tam Tams in 1940. The origin of the name has not been definitively documented, but the word &#8220;ta&#8217;am&#8221; in Hebrew means taste, &#8220;so we think that&#8217;s the derivation,&#8221; Rossi said.<br \/>\nManischewitz needs five months to make all its Passover matzo products.<br \/>\n&#8220;This year, we only had between three to four months,&#8221; Rossie said.<br \/>\nSome Jews are taking the loss hard.<br \/>\n&#8220;It is a big deal,&#8221; said Edie Kodosh, 14, of Springfield, N.J. &#8220;It is a big deal. I&#8217;ll miss them.&#8221;<br \/>\nOther fans of the crunchy snack took a stoic view. Morty Leiwant of Short Hills first read about the situation in an edition of the New Jersey Jewish News in February.<br \/>\n&#8220;I like Tam Tams, but I&#8217;m not going to get emotional about it,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n<em>Copyright 2008 Religion News Service. All rights reserved. No part of this transmission may be distributed or reproduced without written permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Beth Fitzgerald Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) When Passover begins on April 19 and Jewish families gather for the traditional seder meal, they can expect this question: &#8220;What happened to the Tam Tams?&#8221; The bite-sized matzo crackers are a Passover perennial, perfect for dipping in egg salad or chopped liver and eating straight&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Factory Delay Means No Matzo Crackers for Passover<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2008\/03\/factory-delay-means-no-matzo-c\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Factory Delay Means No Matzo Crackers for Passover\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Beth Fitzgerald Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. 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