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First Posted: 04/18/11 01:52 PM ET Updated: 06/18/11 06:12 AM ET

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Nestled among the hot clubs and cool condos of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Streit’s kosher matzo factory is one of the last holdouts of a bygone era. When the family-run business was founded in 1925 by Austrian immigrant Aron Streit, Prohibition reigned and the area was home to a bustling Jewish community. Lines of people waiting for fresh matzo snaked around the block.

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Nestled among the hot clubs and cool condos of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Streit’s kosher matzo factory is one of the last holdouts of a bygone era. When the family-run business was founded in 1...
Nestled among the hot clubs and cool condos of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Streit’s kosher matzo factory is one of the last holdouts of a bygone era. When the family-run business was founded in 1...
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Max19th
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05:27 PM on 04/18/2011
MATZO, MATZO MAN!......I WANT TO BE, A MATZO MAN!
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Dancing with the Stones
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04:08 PM on 04/18/2011
Matzo tastes best cooked into something. As a solo cracker it is reminiscent of dessicated linoleum tiles.
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Plaines d' Abraham
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01:19 PM on 04/18/2011
You can't get a "rise" out of these guys... Happy Passover! ;-)
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