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@Jim T Thank you for flagging this! I love the crossword and I thought this was a good one, but as an observant Jew it was kind of jarring to see this clue and I did feel somewhat uncomfortable filling it out. More generally though, as a British Jew used to our culture being completely invisible in the public eye, it's really refreshing for basic concepts in Judaism to be assumed knowledge for the crossword! I also do our UK crosswords, and I have never seen for example SEDER or LATKE as clues there, both of which would be unremarkable in the NYT. It's nice to be seen!