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PMThe Passover meal marks beginning of the week-long "Feast of Unleavened Bread". Israel was commanded to eat unleavened bread, matzo bread with no yeast (hametz) in it, for a whole week. So Jewish people in Israel have been crunching their way through multiple square sheets of matzo bread and looking wistfully at the closed bakery sections for a while now. But what does it mean? The most obvious answer is a reminder of the swift exodus from Egypt, when there was no time for the bread to rise. But there is one small problem with that explanation... Timely instructions God...

It's made from 1,000 eggs, 80 pounds of margarine and a whole lot of matzo meal. Eat it if you dare. It's arguably the world's largest matzo ball and it weighs in at 267 pounds, and is 29.2 inches across. This mouthful was created to raise money for a charity game between the New York Knicks and Israeli basketball team Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv. Proceeds from the Oct. 18 game will benefit Migdal Ohr, an orphanage in northern Israel. Guinness World Record Holders The massive matzo was cooked up for nearly 20 hours in a custom-made 100-gallon kettle in New...