My own favorite use for the stuff is matzo brei, a scramble of broken matzo and eggs.

WSJ: Matzo Brei Recipes for Passover: Easy as Brei

Thanks to a chance encounter years ago, I learned that matzo brei is also a dish of infinite adaptability.

WSJ: Matzo Brei Recipes for Passover: Easy as Brei

The three-story matzo oven once used by Aron Streit and Rabbi Weinberger remains in the house to this day, unused for decades.

WSJ: A Lower East Side Matzo Story, Leavened With History

Useless was definitely there, including a piece of matzo laser-etched with actor Leonard Nimoy's image, a rocket-powered motorcycle built by a Brooklyn, N.

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On the surface, "Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream" reads as a story about New York Jews making a movie about New York Jews.

WSJ: A Lower East Side Matzo Story, Leavened With History

At Passover, millions of Jews forgo leavened grain and eat matzo, tricking out the cracker in various ways to mask its essential, incontrovertible blandness.

WSJ: Matzo Brei Recipes for Passover: Easy as Brei

There's an actual pun on the matzo ball that's a dance.

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Pham learned to cook matzo ball soup.

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It sounds simple, and it is, but what happens when the matzo soaks up some egg and fries in a generous slick of fat is at the same time profound: What was dry and severe becomes plush and custardy.

WSJ: Matzo Brei Recipes for Passover: Easy as Brei

During filming, a longtime factory hand told Mr. Levine about the townhouse on Pitt Street where Aron Streit and a partner, Rabbi Moshe Weinberger, made matzo from 1916 to 1925, at which point Streit's moved four blocks to its current location and Weinbrger stayed behind, making matzos into the '40s.

WSJ: A Lower East Side Matzo Story, Leavened With History