On the Chocolate Trail

Several publications picked up my pieces about chocolate and Passover recently — Huffington Post, Jewish Journal and Jewish Telegraphic Agency — and I share them here, along with A Haggadah for a Socially Responsible Chocolate Seder and related rabbinic texts from responsa literature: A Haggadah for a Socially Responsible Chocolate Seder (free download!) This Haggadah

I was surprised to learn that another topic omitted from my Jewish education–all the years of religious school to seminary to the active rabbinate–I had no idea that Jewish texts discussed chocolate. It turns out that they do. In Jewish literature’s legal genre known as responsa, questions and answers surface that are related to cocoa,