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  • The potato filled the seder's "Karpas" requirement, the green vegetable for which most people use parsley or lettuce.

    Jew Eat Yet? 2010

  • Parsley for Karpas -- Opt for local as well as organic.

    Carolyn Scott: Make It a Green Passover Carolyn Scott 2011

  • Parsley for Karpas -- Opt for local as well as organic.

    Carolyn Scott: Make It a Green Passover Carolyn Scott 2011

  • (EDITORS NOTE: There's no bitterness like show bitterness) It will be dipped in salt water that represents the sweat and hard labor of the slaves as they built the Pyramid's creating the first known cases of "Karpas Tunneling Syndrome."

    Alec Sokolow: The Audacity to Haggadah 2009

  • (EDITORS NOTE: There's no bitterness like show bitterness) It will be dipped in salt water that represents the sweat and hard labor of the slaves as they built the Pyramid's creating the first known cases of "Karpas Tunneling Syndrome."

    Alec Sokolow: Haggadah Get Out Of This Place 2009

  • For example, a man named Abraham Karpas wrote two letters to scientific journals in the early years of the epidemic in which he recalled an anthropological study that claimed men and women in the Rift Valley in East Africa smeared themselves with the blood of monkeys to increase sexual stimulation.5 This, he postulated, would have been an ideal vector for the initial transmission of the virus from monkey to man.

    No Place Left to Bury the Dead Nicole Itano 2007

  • Adds Karpas: Our event is a jewel, and we've got to keep it polished.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • Adds Karpas: Our event is a jewel, and we've got to keep it polished.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • Karpas - A vegetable other than bitter herbs, dipped into salt water (which represents tears) to recall the pain felt by the Jewish slaves in Egypt.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2010

  • Karpas - A vegetable other than bitter herbs, dipped into salt water (which represents tears) to recall the pain felt by the Jewish slaves in Egypt.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2010

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