Hungarian Hasidic Jews burn leavened bakery product leftovers in final preparation for the Passover holiday in the courtyard of the Kazinczy street mikveh in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, April 10, 2017. Jews are forbidden to eat leavened foodstuffs during the eight days of Passover, which celebrates the biblical story of exodus, the migration of the ancient Israelites from Egypt into Canaan. (Bea Kallos/MTI via AP)Bea Kallos (AP)Smoke fills the air as ultra-Orthodox Jews burn leavened items in final preparation for the Passover holiday in Jerusalem, Monday, April 10, 2017. Jews are forbidden to eat leavened foodstuffs during the Passover holiday that celebrates the biblical story of the Israelites' escape from slavery and exodus from Egypt. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)Oded Balilty (AP)Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn leavened items in final preparation for the Passover holiday in Jerusalem, Monday, April 10, 2017. Jews are forbidden to eat leavened foodstuffs during the Passover holiday that celebrates the biblical story of the Israelites' escape from slavery and exodus from Egypt. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)Oded Balilty (AP)Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn leavened items in final preparation for the Passover holiday in Jerusalem, Monday, April 10, 2017. Jews are forbidden to eat leavened foodstuffs during the Passover holiday that celebrates the biblical story of the Israelites' escape from slavery and exodus from Egypt. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)Oded Balilty (AP)Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men burn leavened items during the Biur Chametz ritual on April 10, 2017 in Jerusalem on the eve of the Jewish Pesach (Passover) holiday, which begins at sunset today.
Due to the haste with which the Jews left Egypt, the bread they had prepared for the journey did not have time to rise. To commemorate their ancestors' plight, the religious avoid eating leavened food products throughout Passover. / AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANAMENAHEM KAHANA (AFP)Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and children burn leavened items in final preparation for the Passover holiday in Jerusalem, Monday, April 10, 2017. Jews are forbidden to eat leavened foodstuffs during the Passover holiday that celebrates the biblical story of the Israelites' escape from slavery and exodus from Egypt. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)Oded Balilty (AP)Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn leavened items in a final preparation before the start at sundown of the Jewish Passover (Pesach) holiday, in the city of Bnei Brak, central Israel, on April 10, 2017.
All leavened food, such as bread, is forbidden to Jews during the week-long holiday, which to commemorate the Israelites' exodus from Egypt some 3,500 years ago. / AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZJACK GUEZ (AFP)Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and children burn leavened items in final preparation for the Passover holiday in Jerusalem, Monday, April 10, 2017. Jews are forbidden to eat leavened foodstuffs during the Passover holiday that celebrates the biblical story of the Israelites' escape from slavery and exodus from Egypt. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)Oded Balilty (AP)
