Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Rabbi turns dead schoolbus into matzoh oven


A Hasidic Rabbi in a NYC suburb converted a derelict school-bus to a giant Passover matzoh oven, in order to bake super-Kosher flatbread for the High Holidays. The building inspectors shut him down for creating a "tinderbox" and told him to have the whole thing certified by an engineer.
The derelict red-and-white bus, connected by a plywood passageway to a single-family house, was out of sight of casual passers-by in a Hasidic Jewish neighborhood and had apparently escaped the notice of authorities.

Its owner, Rabbi Aaron Winternitz, said Monday he had been making the unleavened bread there for three Passovers and was eager to do the same this year, with Passover coming up in a week.

Link (via Monochrom)



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