Where Judaism Meets Japan, There’s Matzo Ball Miso Soup
Miso soup with matzo balls? Lotus root tempura with matzo cake meal? Japanese sweet potato kugel? These exciting dishes aren’t the work of chefs, but rather came from the resourcefulness of 1,000 or so Jews in Tokyo, a city of 28 million. One of Japan’s tiniest minorities, they’re creatively adapting traditional recipes for Passover, the…