JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Except for a poster of grains from around the world, the office of Yaakov Horowitz at Manischewitz looks like a typical rabbi’s study. Heavy books with Hebrew script are stacked on ...

Passover is right around the corner, and over the next few weeks, hundreds of thousands of pounds of matzot (plural of matzo) will ship out to grocery stores everywhere. A few batches of this ...

Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz wants to correct what he sees as a major misunderstanding about the history of Jews in this country. “There’s a misconception that Jewish life in America started after World War ...

The matzo business may be the most heavily regulated business in the world. The regulators are rabbis, who stand on the factory floor and make sure that everything adheres to kosher law. The rules may ...

Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz examines the holes in a sheet of baked matzo from the matzo production line at the Manischewitz manufacturing facility on February 4 in Newark. (Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images) The ...

A rabbi is accusing kosher foods giant Manischewitz of pushing him out as its longtime inspector of holiday matzos after he complained that the company wasn't sticking to strict Jewish religious ...

When Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz, now of Lawrence, New York, was growing up in West Hollywood, he was struck by a memorable oddity in congregations where he prayed. “I met Jews from all kinds of little ...

The matzo business may be the most heavily regulated business in the world. The regulators are rabbis, who stand on the factory floor and make sure that everything adheres to kosher law. The rules may ...