Matzos

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of matzo form-of, plural

    "[W]hen a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent."

Example

More examples

"The blood libel was the antisemitic accusation that Jews ritually murdered children in order to bake their blood into Passover matzos."

Etymology

From the Ashkenazi pronunciation of Hebrew מצות (matzót)

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