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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Is it OK if your seder plate is made in China?
Description: As Jewish people around the world sit down for Passover seders this week, they may be using treasured ritual objects such as seder plates and wine goblets. But taking a more careful look at the tableware might reveal these items were made not by Jews, but rather in factories in industrial cities in China or India.
These plants churn out orders of kippot, mezzuzot, Stars of David necklaces—and definitely the finger puppets kids use to count the 10 plagues.
This outsourcing of Judaica to Southeast Asia or the Far East has become a common phenomenon, even while some independent gi...