JTA
Shmurah matzah prices in the New York area are up slightly this Passover, but with kosher wine there’s seemingly no limit.
Regular Passover matzah was going for $3 to $4 a pound, but shmurah matzah, geared to the fervently Orthodox, retails for six or seven times that price.
Called “shmurah,” or “watched,” because the wheat is under strict supervision from the time of harvest, it is more expensive because of the added supervision and small-scale production.
This year, Kosher Today reports that Brooklyn bakeries producing shmurah matzah are increasing prices by only 50 cents to a dollar per pound in deference to consumers’ hard-hit wallets.
The least expensive, at $18.50 per pound, comes from D & T Shmura Bakery in Crown Heights. The priciest, a “heimieshe mayleh” variety made by the Satmar Shmura Hand-Matzoh Bakery in Williamsburg, goes for $23 per pound. Shmurah matzah is also available on-line from Gefen and Rokeach, at $19.99 per pound, and from matzahonline.com beginning at $19.50 per pound.
Meanwhile, Herzog Wine Cellar’s just-released Generation VIII 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon from the To Kalon vineyard retails for $200 a bottle, setting a new record for kosher wine.
Gary Wartels, owner of Skyview Wine and Spirits in Riverdale, N.Y., who has a couple bottles left at $179.95 each, told JTA that “even at that price, it’s been very popular.”
Are there any websites to purchase inexpensive (i.e. <$20/ib) hand shmura online?
from reading other sites it seems like the kfar chabad matza sold in the us is not 18 minutes from the kneading its 18 minutes from the table and it is only bdieved
the matza bakery needs some lights!!!!!!!!!!!
the best matzah it the montreal brand
the chepest is delish here in california something liek 11 or 12 a pund
I live in los angeles (California!!) and the copmpany
“Its delish” is selling hand made shmura matza for around 15 dollars a lb. (I found it @ ralphs) it’s the cheapest and tastiest in LA!
so you save 3 dollars buy buying the UK matzah over kfar chabad, but they rip you off by 10 dollars. umm yeah love the way the sales work
i always used to buy the boro park ones but last year i switched to Ukraine, it is the tastiest, thin and flavor that is not a burnt taste. really, the best ever.
i always avoided it bec. its the cheapest i thought it must taste gross, but now that’s the only thing that i buy.
Goldberg’s in Boro Park is selling the Ukrainian Matzah for $9.49/lb. with a limit of 15lbs and you have to buy $10 of non-sale things.
In their weekly circular they are advertising Ukrainian Matzah for $9.99/lb. The catch is that there is a limit of 3 (!) and one has to spend $20 on non-sale items in the store to get the sale price.
the UK matzah for 11.50 was sold out, but you can still get kfar chabad matzah for 12.50from frumerman call him – he has a shop on troy between mont and empire – you can also check judaica world to see if they have any UK Matzah which is the best matzah in the world
where can we find at 11.50 per LB?
Also the matzah with Rabbi Schweis and Rabbi Yurkovitch hechsher is sold for 18.00/lb
Not sure where this writer got their information, but in Boro Park you can get them way cheaper. I know of places where anyone can get shmura matzah for $13.30 @ lb., and for large families they are offering for $10.50 @ lb. The average store in BP are selling at $16.50 @ lb.
CH matza bakery need a huge makeover. and i heard they have a deal with the dentist – for every person who breaks their teeth eating CH matzah. they split the profit. the word in the stree last year 182 people had to get their teeth fixed.
UK matzah in CH was selling for 11.50 while Kfar chabad is only 12.50 per LB