A SPECIAL REPORT: PASSOVER

DO IT YOURSELF: Children learn that the Passover matzo--a thin, unleavened cracker--commemorates the ancient Jews’ flight from Egypt, which was so hasty it left no time to bake bread for the journey. . . . But Irvine Community Chabad Center also teaches children how to make matzos the traditional way. It’s easy: Make a dough of flour and water, roll it thin, poke holes with a fork and bake in a blazing-hot oven for maybe a minute. “You can tell the handmade ones,” says Rabbi Alter Tenenbaum. “They’re round, not square.”