The 20,000 pounds of the unleavened bread languishing in an Odesa port represents 10% of the country's annual exports to the US, and a local rabbi thinks the market will feel it

In Azerbaijan people consume 2.7 pounds per person, in Russia 2.4 pounds -- dwarfing the average consumption of unleavened bread cracker among most Jews

With large price gaps between supermarkets for matzah and Passover items such as potato starch, consumers advised to compare prices, which, overall, are similar to last year's