Preparing for Passover

Ultra-Orthodox Jews fill water from a mountain spring to be used to bake the matzoth (unleavened bread) during the Maim Shelanu ceremony in Jerusalem, Israel. Religious Jews throughout the world eat matzoth during the eight-day Passover, or Pesach, holiday, The Jewish holiday commemorates the Israelis' exodus from Egypt some 3,500 years ago and their ancestors' plight by refraining from eating leavened food. Passover begins March 25 and ends on the evening of April 02.

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( Uriel Sinai, Getty Images / March 14, 2013 )

Ultra-Orthodox Jews fill water from a mountain spring to be used to bake the matzoth (unleavened bread) during the Maim Shelanu ceremony in Jerusalem, Israel. Religious Jews throughout the world eat matzoth during the eight-day Passover, or Pesach, holiday, The Jewish holiday commemorates the Israelis' exodus from Egypt some 3,500 years ago and their ancestors' plight by refraining from eating leavened food. Passover begins March 25 and ends on the evening of April 02.

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