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"Remember the days of old, consider the years of ages past" (Deuteronomy)

By Morris MaNne Where did the time go?

It seems almost like yesterday when you and I packed our assorted pottery, shing a sack over our shoulders and walked across the sands of Egypt to the promised land.

In fact, the Eirodus from Egypt took place about 1300 BCE which means that the Jewish people have been telling this story for approximately threethoualuid, two-hundred and ninety-one yeari.,

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By this t^e, we should kno^ tne story by heart.

Think for a moment!

For these thousands of years, Jews throughout the world recited blessings and sang songs celebrating this precedent-shaitering march to freedom.

What an extraordinary history we Jewish people have.

Many say that Jewish history is resplendent with miracles and that the miracles continue even to the present day as evidenced by the re-emergence of the State of Israel and the remarkable metamorphosis from desert to a land of milk and honey.

So, here we are again at another pivotal point in history.

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Israel has emerged practically unscathed from the madness of a 20th century Haman and now looks to the possibility of peace talks with her Arab neighbors.

Peace should only happen.

Since 1948, Israel has welcomed hundreds of thousands of refugees from scores of countries and has built a democratic society that should be looked up to as a model for developing nations. .^nd she acconq>li6hed this record of gr^t achievement despite a series of wars aimed at wiping her into the sea, continuing diplomatic and economic hostility, and unrelenting terrorism.

Given peace and the continuing influx of Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, her future as an economic, technical and artistic paradise is mind-boggUng to contemplate.

This Passover is imjopportunity foar American Jews to cdebrate not on^y a brilliant vicUny <m the put of the coaliticm f(nres, but also to vistZkUze—with awe—Jewish history, and our very own place in this histcHy. Enjoy, and give thanks.

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By JoCunll HW AMy man who Mt at the hMd of the table had fkill IMMI of white hair, a kng white beard streaked

I trith ramaanta of red from his youth and one shiny fafil^ Una eye. A farmar horse tradnr iB the DahoU tai^ ritorits, he had bat an aye wfam a wfld hone Ucked Um. Dorothy Kaplan will new fonet tUs (rifht, for the man was har grandfather, Her»N^it«B,'|Maiding at the aedw table.

"For the most part he was a aecular lew. but Passover was a ipedal time. He read the eotirB service hi Yiddish and (rften digeeeed with stotiss of his own."

"Ify mother kept the Psssover dishas in a barrel and •v«y vsar tity mm takn out to ass wliat was missing or faroken. I was givHi money to go to the dime etore and replace the <|ishes. They ware all the same white dishee eo they hxiked the eame year after year."

Mrs. Kaplan rscslls that many foods ware made out of eggs daring Paasover. "The farmer broo^ ao many eggs cratee for Paaaover that there was no room to turn araond in the Utdiea." '

"Mother snd Father made the geJBlte fish together.

Thay ground it on the hand grinder and than chopped it and chopped it until it was fine. Then mother would fin the fish ddn with the meat and bake it fish head and an, in a Ug pot "It wu a sight 1^ behold even if you didn't like it"

Her son, Howard, renumbers going to his grandmothar'e house on Shirley street for the seder.

"Great smells of chicken soup with fst floating on it, and matso baUs that were Uke bnUets. Thay sank to the bottom Uke the Titanic" said Howard Kaplan.

"I stfll Uke matzo baUs Uke that althou«^ we haven't had them in years."

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His memories sre of his grandfather, Jake Kaplan, leadfaig the seder. "He ran the show: Grandfather was king."

We ware quite poor when I was growing up," l^rs.

Kaplan said, "But no one could ever teU it from our Paasovermeals."

"No one ever had the same haggadah. Different verses were on different pages and some of the English translations were different" '« He said he got to ask the four questinis, but not for long, for soon a younger cousin took over the duty.

"One year a cousin who was »rabbi waa visitiag from Israel. I don't think we ate until nddnigfat. Everyone waa very hungry."

"No one could get my grandmother to sit down. She^ wss alwajrs bringing out dishes or doing something. We used to say that the miracle of Passover was to get Grandmother to sit down."

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For a period of time, seders were much differedt for Howard. He lived in Washington, D.C. and wait to a coasin's home in Potomac, Md.,f6r the holidays.

"Thay wore veiy lengthy. They would nUnp and ejqdain passages ^ong the way. There were no real young children there. I^are were more questinis. It was more of a teaching type <rf service."

The meal was very unlike the service at his grsndmother's house. Different cousins helped serve and eveiyone helped clean up. "It was a very co-op meal," he said.

"But it was stiU a seder with family," he said.

She baked htr fathn-'a favorite, cream puffs with Ismon in them. Her mother made banana cakee but, "neither one <rf us could ever get a sponge cake to turn out right lliey were always faihiree."

Passover waa a enormous amount of work, with many dishes to wash and extra beds to get ready for out of town guests, "but there was always a holiday spirit" The traditional chicken soup always indoded the chicken's feet as well as any aggs that haRMned to be in the chicken.

Har mother'a cookbook was in Yiddiah and in English. Shs filt more eomforiable reading the Ylddieh and would often make notes of her own in ths margins.

"Mother kspt a and brown purse with speeisl rec^ of her own. I can aee it now, with its small snap over cover. Unfortunately it was lost" "I ndas ngr mottiar's tximmiB. It hsd pranss, qaioats, earrota, whtte jtotiuoaa, swast potatoee and a piece of meat hi it It al^ iaduded a stuffsd diieken neck."

Mrs. Kaplan siQrs, "Now we go to Howard's house.

It's nice to tUnk it's going down to another generation.

We ^ have a loving famfly, a oo^afortable fading abonf a lot of tradition. That's that wonderful thing about Judaiam and it'a stiU surviving."

"This year wouU have been my lather's 100th birthday. It just doesn't seem possiUe. I hope my grandacm, Martin, wiU have aU the wonderful nsnoriea I have.

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By Lnnmet J. atttmhttg "BaheU I kuva fhr«i yoa mnry lMtb4>Mutii« MMI, «Ueh b apMi tha iMt of an tke Mrth. awi evMy trae li wydi b tkt Inrit «f • tne ]rWdN( Mf^ to 9«i it alHdl b« for food AMII* vvwy bMat of tta Mtth aad to vvwy f«wl of tke air, Md to •wytfcfaf «kat ttwpetli tko oortk wbw> tfcM is Hf0^ I hm« flivM ovwy I lNri> for food, and it WM M." ^ ^O«MaUl:2M0 "Some of my baat friaoda an carnivores" declares Phia^ Pick, bat as hoooraiy life weaidait of the Inter national JewiA Vagetarian and Ectdogical Society, he wSoId Uke to dianfe tliat.

Having notDtfy celebrated lifa SOtli birtliday, Pick is a living teatanaoit to healtlifiil Mting liabits. A retired architect from London, Pick k>ok8 and talka like a 60year-old man. Bom into a vegetarian family, Pick has never tasted a piece of meat, &h or fowl in his life. M(x« surprisingly, however, he claims he has never been sick!

Pkk waa reoanUy in lanael to attend the 29th Worid Vegetarian Congress, qxmaored by the International vegetarian Unkn at Kfar Macabiah in Ramat Oan. Hie faiaimnal confannoe waa attended by some 200 vegetariana and health exiierts firom 17 counUiea including India, Australia, Ccechoeknrakia, the United States and Venezuela.

According to convention organimB, the purpose of the conference was "for vegetarians from all over the world to meet and errhange information and to make plans for the future."

'V9g6tu1anl8m--a way to peace' Partic^wnta heard lectures on the moral and spiritual aspect of vegetarianism, on healtli, holistic medicine and

on self-healing. In addition, the partidpanta. heard a though^provoldng lecture on "Vegetarianism—A Way to Peace." by Israeli, Hard Nachum. ^ Quoting from the prophets Isaiah and Hosea, Nachum said "that in the future there will be peace amtmg nations and between mankind and othtt- creatures."

Nachum added that "if we kill living creatures, it is as if we killed oursdves. The killing leaves a stain on our conscience, whether done directly or indirectly."

Congress President Surendra Mehto from Matras, India called on every country to produce natural foods to meet ito own populatkm as well as the hungry of the Third WorkL Mdita called on the convantion to establish a goodwill ddegation of vegetariana to travel the world and meet the heads of stato to praach the virtues of vegetarianism.

David Nachum, president of the Israeli Movement of Vegetarians and Vegans, said, "It ia a very big honor for Israel to host the convention. We are the only country in the Mid-East with a stnng and active vegetarian community."

"Jhera are over 300,000 vegetarians in Israel, about seven percent of the population," claims Nachum, dedaring that "this makes Israel the country with the largest percentage of vegetarians per population outdde of India." In contrast, he states, "that lees that four pei^ cent of Americaits an vegetarians."

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Jew8 commanded to be vegetariana S According to Pidi, his crganizatian,wfak:b boasts over 18,000 met^iers ircrldwide, waa founded to "correct and change the diatortkn in the Torah." Jndaiam is a o»npleto vegetarian philoeophy. Under the originalJewish teachiaga, Jews war* cnmmanded to be vegetarians.

Fhim the time of Adam to Noah, it was a capitol offaiae to kill an animal Pick esplains "because man waa vio' lent;, from hia youth, pcmdaakn waa granted to eat fleah but with a curae. I now give unto the fleah of all areatureo and the blood of ycm life. I will demand both a hand of man and of animaL"

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In Pkk'a view, aH tba vkilenoe in the world is a result of thia curse operating. "Whan all people become vogetaiians then win bo paaea thrao^iottt the workL" lUs viow ia not onhr aharadlqr Pk^bnt alao by larael'a first CUef RabU UaeoiMn Kook.

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"There is a tremendooa drift all acroaa Enrone towards the Green philooophy and by Israel taUag ue lead, we will not only offset the negative preaa uont laraeli but truly be a Ught onto all nationa," he aaqilahia.

Pkk oboerved that then ia a much larger proportion of Jewish vegetariana than Uuirnaigfahars. Bebig a Jewiah vegetarian runa acroaa all spectnims of Jewish d^ servanoe, from thenon-oboarvant to the ultraOrthodox.

Three of larad'a chief rabbia were vegetariana, he atatee, adding that the head of thia organbation in Auatralia ia a Lubavitch rebbe.

Another partidpant in the convention was Bobbie Landan, a Jewish hairatyUng salon owner from Wahnit Creek, Calif. A vagetarian for 17 years. Landau aays the convantion "prodded new Ueaa and waa extramdy inteiMtitig, especially the leeturee on natural healimc and podtive attitude."

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Landau rocenU* founded the Bay Area JewiahVego. t«ian8odety. aaikwlly imrted that Um ia aka^M over M nMmbar8.11togRmplMkl a vegetarian sederfer^ Paaaover attended by 85 menibere. The aeder pUto wag •onewhat different than the atandard aadar plate, with yams aobstitutiM for the lamb bone and of courae minus the synbofie ifg.

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All the conferenoo partldpanto wen looking forward to the day whan the wArda of laaiah will come. "And ^hsy afaall plant the vbwyanli and eat the fruit ofi them-the wolf and the lamb shsU toad toffsthar and Uon shall eat straw like the bullock. They shall not hi or riMtxfty In all my holy nuiintato."

Guam—an untraditional place for a traditional seder Bjr JeCarroB On «littfe iriand jnt SO ndM k»g, looted 10 iMon WMt of Hawaii, Fh;^ Hottnan tani^ a FOjpioo cook how to make matzo baSs for 186 people.

Mn. HofbaigSiliaaband. David, ma a caraer officer in the Air FOR* iod Uwjrwere atatianad oo Onam from 1978 to 1976. She waa in charge of two aadara hdd on the iaiand while they were there.

Hie nearaet Jewiah chaplain waa atatiooed in Hawaii.

Technkally, he cookl fly to Otiam ^ a holiday, croeaing the intematknal dateUne aa he went He could then bad the aervices, fly back to Hawaii, croeaing the dateline again and be back hi Hawaii for the aame holiday.

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AtnOtlonalaMer Mrs. Hoffiman aaid, "It was a traditional aeder boia aUit to finish. This was the first year a apedal prayer for the Holocaust was induded.

"There were about a doaen kids there and everyone read fitHn the haggadah." llie Catholic priest waa ao impreaaed that he aaked Mrs. Hoffinsn and her husband to do a aeder for hia congregation before Easter.

The diaplain praimwl not to do thia, however, for two reaaona: Firat, it involved 20 houra of flight time and aeooDd, he preferred to viiit the Jewa BtatioDed on Onam whan ha could atagr kngv.

"But ha aaid thara waa BO way hia ooi^ngatkii oooU deal with four glaaaaa of wins. W* wotdd have to mdm It grapa juioe," Mrs. Hoffman racallad.

The aeeond year, Mra. Hoffinan. said thay hwLtba wmecook and ha had already kaahered the kitchen befon they arrived.

"He was so proud and ap earefol," aha sakL Mra. Hoffman Uked the indusfon of noo-Jewa in the Paaaover aeder. It is a way to touch noo-Jawish people in a poaittve way. You can diqiel fears and aimarstitions."

She remembers Guam as a beautiful tropical iaiand.

"Judaism became more important to us when it wasn't automatically there. We were vary cloee4mit on Guam."

What he learned that lira. Hoffaum and her huaband were ci^Mble of handling the aervioee for Paaaover, ht ' left it iq;> to them.

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She would have dishes that had never been used ready for the seder.

The frozen kosher chicken was arranged to be labeled t'blood plasma and was ^ent to the baaa iiKare of Qftoeral iDavid Hoffman. \ , "My husband was never a general" she laughs as she recalls the preparaticm for Pasaiwsc,.,. , \ , Tlw.JeinahWeUareBoaKdwn^ttomaUoaiidt^ ;^ijnei, wbicb w^.flQwn in,ah!iii4 ffTtixM '^^ t^mA. "tV inuiiazy ir^a veiy boagj^ative," Mrs. HoKbm ^aaid. llirb day before the seder was to be hekl they tumpd. . the kitchen over to her. i With a portable torch aha kaahsred the kitchea ; The military had provide^liaaraeo the pane cgold be ,,used to cook the food.

•^ Although thare were just 70 Jewish militaty and noo, military peraonnel on Guam, 126 people attended the

Food for Cuban Jews Or Be* Kayfeto TORONTO (JTA)-llie Canadian and Mexican Jewiah communitiee are joining fonea to provide continufaig Paasover food wavfl&n to their aister Jewiah eommunity in Cuba.

The ibod st^pliea, under the aupcvlsioo of Hie Mexican rabbfaute, include thousands of boxes of matsah, oil, meat and wine. The coat 6f the food, between 120.000 and t96,000, will be covered by the Canadian Jewiah Congress out of its annual Moses Chittin fund-raising campaign.

The Central Committee «tf Mexican Jewry will cover the coat needed for flying the supplies to Havana by air freight.

Since the Castro revohttioo, which cut off relations between the United SUtea and Cuba, the Canadian Jewiah Congraas haa been sut>plylng Cuba's Jews with matsah and other Passover food. The procedure entailed loading the aup|dlee onto a Soviet or Beat European ahip that atoijpod at a Canadian port.

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For a change—a seder in Arabic ByBartUwIa In the IMBC Nadoff houaehold, the tenna Ashkana•im eiid SefriianUm are more thui temiUar. Rabbi Nadoff is the child of a father born in Yemen uid a mother bom in Iraq, both raiaed ta laitel. ^ He waa raiaed hearing Arabic apokien in the houae and alwaya undenfood hia was a S^>hardic background.

When he grew iq> and married Jeanette, the Aahkenad counterpart entered the picture. Jeanette aaya ahe "integrated the Nadoff teni^."

All of this ia by way of aaying that while the rabbi's family observed the aame Paaaover aa other Jewa, there were acme particular diffenooea. He nnaendiers the four questtana being asked in both Hebrew and And>ic for example. He remembers the haggadah chanted in differ cot melodiee than thoae he haaia today.

Rabbi Nadoff likea to tell the liatener about the aedw in hia and Jeanette'e home the manner in which ttw text of the haggadah is read, or more correctly, aung.

He tella of the importance of e]q>laining this paaaage or that, of liatening to other viewpointa on iriiy or why not, thia practioe or that was foUowed; In other worda, undaratanding ia always stressed rather than simply reading worda mindleealy. He says, "the language of the haggadah is ancient—it needs elaboration and diacuaaion."

ITie language of the haggmkih b ancient When the Nadoff cUMran were growing up, their father tdls how they vie*} for the chance to pose qnea: tions for the adolta at the aeder table; this was encouraged to further the opprntunity for oomptote understanding. Commentary was an expected part of the'haggadah reading.

Rabbi Nadoff apeidn of initiating the community aeder at Beth laraei many yaara ago. How mtry atep was planned and each part expfadned, so that every participant might completely undsrstand and mjoy thia QMCtal event He tells how one year, he asked the four ^ questions in Arabk to the delight of the aaaemblage.

He aaya they came to expect it aa a regular happening. > Like hia collet|{iMB, the rabbi lamente the hct that

hia poeitkn with the aynagogue required him to be away from hia own table too many aeder ni|^ta. He recalla fondly how, more than 26 jnara ago, before he came to Omaha, he and Jeanette iMe i£le to join the elder Nadoft and the rabbl'a cntiAB family for a reunkm/aeder.

It was an event of Buch hsportanoe thqr still like to tell sbout it. Since his retimnapt, the Nadoffs are able to move about more freely with regard to where they celebrate Paasovo-.

I^aat year one part of the family, a sini and daughterin-law, caoM to Omaha to be with them for Paaaover.

The rabbi, who had been recovering frtun a kmg, serious Ulnees, was taken ill and hospitalised. The ^tors came to be with Dad and for what turned out to be a wonderful seder. And the atoty goes, the ransom for the stden afikoman was a tape to be made by tlw rabbi of the entire seder in Arabic. , This year, Jeanette and Isaac Nadoff look forward to qMndhig the hoUday with a daughter, aon-in-law and tight grandchildren. For her part Jeanette aaya, "All the cookmg, prqMring, fixing, making and doing beforehand are aa much apart of Paaaover aa the haggadah."

She laugfaa when she says it, but stresses the commoUaa involved when she thhiks of the household with the eight children and the other daughter (in larael) with nine youngsters. Remembering what it was like for her, with fewer kids, she aaya with wonderment "can you imagine?"

For the rebUtzin, like every other woman, Paaaover bad other connotlttiona than the text of the haggadah.

She.iemunbers the seders they did manage to have at home and how they alwaya tiled to include aomebody who waa a atranger in their midst. She remembers fondly how much thoee gueste brou^t to them, as well as what they may have provided. How each atranger, coming from perhaps a difierent dty or a differeot traditi<m, mi^t introduce a fraah perspective.

She apeaka of the fooda and the preparation for seder.

How her Aahkenari charooes of apple, nuts, wine and cinnamon became the Sephardic version containing dates snd raisins and perhaps figs.

The rabbi reminds the listener how people from the Midesat mjoy a highly aeaaoned flavor in their foods, how the time honored gefilte fish is unheard of among Sephardim.

The topic of food reminds both how the visiting dang^ter-in-law laat year provkled a reason for extra

thought in the eating department; ahe is a devout' vegetarian who adherea atiictly to her code of purity.

Jeanette says, with a good-natured grin, "Now, that can provide an extra challenge for the cook." The rabbi adds grimly, "It's fine for the vegetarians, but I want my meat and chicken, not just vegetables and grain."

To sum up the Nadoff story is to realise most all of us, regardlessofwfakh branch of Judaism our ancestorsi^^ rapraasnt, manage to have Passover like everybody else.

Maybe there are dates in the charoses or an eggplant" casserole instead of potato kugd, but Jews are Jewa, everywhere.

At aome tablea there are undoubtedly more erudite discussions regarding the historical significance of the festival than perhaps at othera; it ia to be hoped that wherever Jewlah families aaaemble to celebrate this spring holiday, like the Nadoffs, they do it with good faith and friendahip, that they include the stranger who has no place to go and that they speak the ancient words with respect and underatandhig.

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From the Friedel Jewish Academy to the rdigious ^education at Temple Israd. from the United Tafanud To^tab of Omaha to the preschool at the Jewish Community Center, the story of Passover and its traditions are presently uppermost in the minds of the students.

The iHescbool youngsters at the Jewish Community Center begin their seder preparations with arts and crafts activities. They make seder plates, matzo covers and wine cups. Decorations to adorn their rooms at home are also made.

Dinah Raful, director of the preschool, said, "It is important that they learn the traditions of Passover from 'a young age so they will always have an appreciation of it."

Simple songs help them understand the message of.

Passover. One song tells of a mean king who made the people work too hard for him.

Packets are sent home with the childroi to help them celebrate Passover with their parents.

"We want them to start celebrating the holiday with their parents at an early age. In turn, they will teach their childrai about Passover," Mrs. Raful said.

A few years ago, Friedel Academy had the unique experiax» of being asked to put on a program about Passover for a public radio station in Iowa. Several children were interviewed about what Passover meant to them.

They also sang aoDga for the radio program.

Susan Bernstein, teacher at Frisdd, says the school teachM a variety of ways to approach the hoUday because their students' religious backgrounds range from Raform to Orthodox. "We try to learn and share, rather Uian say this is right <v wrong," Mrs. Bernstein says.

AHhotigfa Friedel doean't usually have a model seder at Passover, they have had a Tu B'sfavat seder. The theme was trees and fruits from trees. Hie four glasses of wins go from white to red, rad symbolizing the red poppies of Uie fidd in IsraaL The stttdeota at Friedel wiD have the week of Passooff, but before they loave for home they wiO dean thdr lockers and desks to make sure no crumbs linger for the Passover week.

At Temple Israel, where the students range from preschod to junior high, director Ann Kibd Schwartz says, "We try to preeent the Passover story a new way each year."

According to Mrs. Schwarte, modd seders are dways popular. Last year the schod chiklren broo^t a friend who was not Jewidi to their modd seder. Another year the seventh graders actually ivepared a sample seder meaL At left, Btodenta at United Tatanad Torah ^Oaaka. left to right, Beth Shykea, Eric fleodwaa and Jayme Tlckaoar stody a haggadah for the Pasw>ver seder. Below left, prewdMolarB, froa left,

jmCaidieU,JaB«ynnkle and Saasaatha BfeiMr, ahow vyariMla of Passover they have made la daae. Below rigkt, stadeata at United TahMd Terah of OBMka. left to light, Jan* Ssitfl, AM <W doa and Mefcad rtaf maaoaetlMtndltioBd laetbod of spooa, feather and eaadls to take care of say AomeU still left la the

But the most popular Passover cdebration occurred recoitly when Uie chiklrai relived the Exodus out of Egypt. Children in the first five grades dressed as the tribra of Israd, including hats and arms bands.

Fifth and sixth graders designed rooms as different places in Egypt, such as the slave qusrters, a matzobaking room, a bridc-maldng room and a jewdry-making room.

Ohte students were taskmasters or guides, wfaik James Farber, president of the congregation, took on Uie role of Moeee in full robes.

The Red Sea was symbolized by having students wav« long pieces of doth which parted for Moses, but not for the Egyptian soldiers who tried to follow.

During their tour of Egypt, the students had sdt water far rations.

United Talmud Torah students also study for Passover, but UTTO director Stan Mitchell says they don't get involved in modd sedors. "We don't want the one they have at home to be anti-climactic," he said.

"We see that they have the proper background without actually ddng it," Mr. Mitchell added. The younger grades make decorations for an afikonum cow, while upper grades are given quizzes about Passover.

All atndants are taught the significance of Passover today. Activities tend to be coordioated to textud hqh peoings.

I So it seems if you havs a child in Omaha, chances an exodlant that he or she is going to learn a kit about Paaaover by the time he/she 0Bts to be a teenager. Hopefully theleuning win bei*tabied ao that the seders they one d^y will lead will be meaningful ones.

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Itheir exobcrance to advertise these vacatkns, some 1 firms have ahnost overstepped the limits TflOod taste. Browsing through issuee of Jewish pqiers MlB around the ooontry, I came acroes sune advertisenpits for Passover interhides that might bring a smile tii^^jRMir face. tTha first ad I notioed was fitm an aspiring resort in Colando saying "SU Passover—limited space available." It seemed a bit incoogruons; somehow I couldn't imagine balancing a bowl of matao ball soup on my Uy as I sped down the hill.

A resort in the Poconos (in Pennsylvania) advertised, that for Passover "You can have a superdduxe 2-, 3-, or 440om suite with a Jacuzzi and fii^lace for the cost ;atan ordinary hotel." I wondered to myself if they had • box of matzo in the bedside table, instead of the Oideon Bible.

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An inspired travel agent'a ad read "For the kosher Passover vacation—caO the Passover Tour expert." I couldn't imsgine what makes scHueone k Passover tour expert The only Passover ezpnta I could relate to were older women who let me read some of thefa-spedsl Passover redpee (most requiring dozens and donas of eggs and potato starch).

One travel service offered "sn oasis of elegance in Pafan l^xings" while the ad <rf aaotheridifch takes resets vadoos for Odando (near Disney World) reed, "Ims^ne a vacation MMN every minute is magic." They even said Bugs Bunny and friends mig^t join you at the seder table.

One countiy chib in the West tot the "Passover crainoisseur" was advotised as a "fovorite hideaway for Hollywood notables." I wondered if that was a better way to meet movie stars than the maps of their homes you can buy in Hollywood.

"We set tlw stapdaid for style and elegance in kosher eventsi" Do you think it would be aU ri^t to call them and ask if they used a tableebth Uke Aunt Leah's? I thou^t that was the most degant thing I had ever seen <m a Passover table.

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These 'luid other fasMnating observations are derived from the 1990 National Jewish Population Study, One first in 20 years.

Interpretation of the mountain of data is tricky, (M-as Dr. Bany Kosmin, CJF's research director, warned, "You can take out of this net whatever fish you're after." Thiis, while there are slightly m«»e Jews in the United States now than then were in 1970, the Jewish community as a pevoentage of the total American population is either going up or down, depend^ on who is a Jew, sod(d(^caUy speakings

This group comprises •Economically, while 4,186,000 bom Jews who moats Jews ,fall, iito base their Jewishness on the middle dass, 670,000 their religion; 1,136,000 households are classified secular Jews; and 190,000 as poor—annual income Jews by choice. On the under $20,000—and other side of the ledger the 160,000* as rich-more survey reports 210,000 than $126,000. "There are former Jews Who are now more reodven (of charity) apostates. than givers," commaoted KosnUn. Daring in<lepdi^ S6-minute interviews, the survey *Young Jews, undor 18, mined arich ore of Jewish make up 21 percwt of the political, social, economic, populatioo, conqlared with and religious nuggets, 18 pensnt over 65 years. among them: *The most comnum religious observsnce is at*In politics, 12 percent _ tendance at Passover sedconsider themadves as arim, followed by the Veqr liberal. 33 percent as lij^ting of Chanukoh canLiberal, 32 percent as Mid- dles, lighting of Shabbat dle of the Road, ISpenxnt candles, participatkn in as Conservative and 4 per^ Purim frolica aiul keqiing cent as Very Conaervative. a kosher home.

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ity, and 60 percent to Jewish charities, although Kosmin said these percentages may eiT on the high sida "People tend to exaggerate their virtue." he said.

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Yet, the man behind the oonnto', Harian L. Ripe, is the reaideot gefilte fish etqiert for the famfly's nissover seder.

"My brother, Bruce, and I are carrying on a family traditkm started by our grandfather, Aaron—the founder of the R^jM qrei^ass bushiess and the foremost eaq>ert on the manuhKtaring of gefilte fish."

Mr. Rips pointed out that his grandfather not only was an optician, but also was good with his hands, and ^oyed prqMffing a variety of specialties including homemade pickles and wine.

His major undertaking, however, came at Passover when he prepared gefilte fish for two seders attended by some 26 fomily members. He also prepared horseradish, from scratch, of course.

"We used to watch as he cleaned the fish and used a hand grinder to obtain the proper consist^icy. He added matzo meal, onions, carrots, celery and spices as well as a dash of spice here and there.

"From our perspective, he made the fish differently each year, but each year it tasted the same as last year."

liked to have the gefilte fiah stuffed back into the fish with the promise that he might be eligible for the title, skin whOe others pnfined to have it aerved without the BaUboat of the Month, he chuckled: headandskin.

"There is no rec^" "Well, then, how do you make gefilte fish without a "We atill serve it both ways today." recipe?"

As the Rips grandchildren improved their akills, ^ After some prodding, the "secret" burst into the pubgrandfather Ripe eased up on the managerial rehis and let Harian and Bruce take over the grinding operation. lic domain.

First, Mr. Rips telephones the Joe Tees fish market "We felt that the hand drill was obsolete and that we could improve the grinding pmeoea by purchasing a and (vders 20 pounds of carp and 20 pounds of buffalo.

Then, he does what his grandfathw did—use matzdi ctMnmerdal grinder... The grinder worked very well, but grandfather considarad the marhiiw an ^lnl»i>^fM^fl^y meal to control the consistency, add the onions, carrots and celery, a sprinkling of salt, a daah of pepper, and extravagance." aome hon^ for sweetener.

The grandchildren countered then-giandfiither's of^Kh "I niake it differmtly every year, but every year it sition by saying that they only had rented the machine tastes the same... it's a nice way for me to remember therdiy inqdying that the equipment meet likely would by grandfather. be returned after use.

Mr. Ripe said he and his wife, Jane, are not overly conSince Bruce resides in St. Louis, Harian has the mo- cerned about passing on the "recipe" to theh* dau^ters, nopoly hi fish-making expertise for the Rips family in Sara, four and Aime, 18 months.

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"If they don't want to make fish, perhaps they'll get When the Jewiah Pteaa asked for a copy of his recipe interested in my newest specialty: potato knishee."

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"Grandfather took us on as an>rentk3es, which meant thatwecouWeleMitheheadaofthefiBh." ^^ Mr. Ripe e^ilafaMd that aome members of the family

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My Passover manories have always bMn a dirtinct part of the patten of my childhood. Most of my life, thoee memoriee ware both sweet and pcedous. Now, at this stage, thqr are still pndons, but the swert has become bittersweet -^ As family numbers diminish, many of the traditiois have beendihited-not by derfgn, btttratlur as just the way it is. Without the "ek^ statesman" of the dan, a certain influence is gone. The patriarchs of the past two gmerations wtn^ in (hen^vaa, a great part of the spirit of Paasover.

I think first of my two grandfathers, both of whom IW88 fortunate enough to have through my growing up years; both of whcnn figured importantly in my earliest seder memories.

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The seders each Zada conducted were similar; both adhered to the letter of the law-the law being the haggadah. I can dearily pktore my matenial grandfathv, propped on a huge white pillow, leaning, as waa mentoned in the service. Probahbr the oth«r Zada did too but for some nason I doA^ncalL I don't remember understanding much of the sedcra •ithsr of them caodact«i-I do runember each at hia own table and the first seder at the home of nw D«l's lofts. The second night, of course, at tj|s other tenily I probably remember aU of the same things you dothe wonderfully crowded table, the marvelous aromas coming from the kitchen, the wine stainsd haggadahs and the seemingly endless service. like maw others I wmenAer Iww thqr an began but I'm fu^rabout how tbey ended. Obviously I was aaleep by the time thev irere over. '

I remember the special foods and how good they tasted. 111 always recall the way the gokkn ayala tasted, after it was chased around the soqpl I wmwnber too how the woman who had ppqjared it aU were thrilled to have reached the place where th^ could sit down. I'm sure eating was (for them) incidental-resting was the reward.

I remember too when my fiither, of bleesed memory, began to conduct his own seder. He certainly was oM OTough to know how, but since hi? father had lived to 90, and had always taken his place at the head of the table, my Dad was probably ckMe to 60 before the task became his.

His eerily efforta were tentative, but he had a good teacher M it dkln't take too many Passovers befwe he was comfortable and conducted a smooth servke. Psssover was always Dad's holidsy. He loved everything about it " He knrad all the commotion in the kitchen, and shoplang for the ipedtl Passover food order (including, in the oU days. 12 doceo sggsl). He knred getting somethmg new to wear-at the very least a new tie. He loved takfag care of "aelling the chometz" and always took special palha to get every detail comet

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He loved to have his own lulav and etrag BO he could properly bench at home. And he loved singing the hnictf t ^ W'**? "•"''kkah eandke. The sOmb* days at the high holidays were taken very seriously by him I guess, in general be felt a certain pleasure when he couki say "it's erev yomtov." Just the same, Passover waj extraspedaL ' ' •? '-" '•'' ?

As for me. 111 always picture the dhiing room table m my parent's house when somebody says the word seder. I'll eee my mother, exhausted but radiant, kvellu« as she looks around at the assembled crowd. And 111 see my Dad at hia place, yarmuike rakisUy perched, asking me to "fill the wine fl^assee so we can b^in."

He had a sweet singing voice apd bved making kid<taah. In the last years, even though the hand whkh held the ^ass trembled and a word or two got misphuxd. the sound was stiO sweet ^^ Last year waa the first Passover without him. It's not tte same anymore, even though it'e BtiU a beautiful holid^y, a raaaon to gather k>ved ones and repeat the andent stoiy. Every family ahouU have iU own traditions and it sewns to me they should go on forever. However, as earlier noted, oun is somewhat diTuted fitHn the was it used to be.

He always made it a point to even have a freah haircut for Passover. How waD I remember how he knred Now, it's up to us to create a now look, a new form foe the first, freah potato latka of the eeason. XlMt was the the time-honored ritual Well devdop a imeent day verone fried when the Utchen was still hi utter chaos so sion and try to remendMT the way othara before us did toat he could have a little something to "tide him over " it I know we can. But I also know it will never agaid We won't even mentkm his apedal krve <rf fried matzo be as it once wss. ^ which couW be the main course for laeakfast, lunch or I dinner. It didn't matt«.

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Asia, Europe and the Ameiicaa and are arranged into llie exhibitioo will feature nearfy 60 oenmonial obthree groups: art rdatad to the synagogue; art as1, paintiqgs, grapliics and seuli^ure related to Jew- sociate with the Sabbath, Hanukkah, Passover and Purim, and art of the life cycle: birth, marriage and death. ' Highlights include a star-shaped hanging lamp from the Middle Ages, used to inaugurate Sabbaths and CMtivals; sn IStlwxntuiy Bavarian Torah Aric, an architectural piece used to stweTorah scrolls in the synagogue; an erampki of Biedermeir furniture in the form of an 1838 wedding sofa; a sflver gilt French Napoleon HI Torah case. Also faiduded are worics by Rembrandt, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, El Lissitzky, Marc ChagaD, Jacques Lipchitz, Ben Shahn and others.

"Although many museums, and many Jewish museums, liave mounted exhibitions of Judaica, no museum has examined the full range of interrelationsfaqM between Jewish art and the art of the larger cultures in which Jews have lived. For more than 2,000 years, Jews tiave dwelled as a minority in many lands, absorbing the styles, iconography and art forms of the dominant culture.

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I began injr aearch to find out what I could about why and how MaxweO Houae would produce a haggadah.

After aeveral weeks, and what seemed to me to be donna (rf phone calls, Len Kate with the Joeeph Jacobs organisatitm sent me the following infonnation. It was written by Carol Cott Groea.

ptemfaim eveiy Passover seeaon since 1084. Aa a result, the lAazwaO Houae haggadah is believed to be the oldast pramotianal item in continnal uae in the history of modem advertising.

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The original Maxwell House haggadafaa were illustrated with blade and white ranroduetiana of medieval wood.inits and paintings by Old Masters. In the 'SOs, the haggadah took on the look and sU^tly larger siae of today's "dduxe" edition. IVansliteratiaos of inq^ot^ tant praytfs have since been added to the text, along with contenqMrary blue and black drawings.

For the past 40 years, the traditimal text has remained virtaaDly undunged, despite occaakmal requests for updating and modernization.

Becanae of its histwical and cultural meaning for milNote: According to the local distributor, for the first lions of American Jewish families, the haggwlah has time in many years the Maxwdl Houae haggadah will been mdnded in the permanent collection of the Natkxt- not be available in the Omaha area this year. However al Museom of Americsn Jewish History in Philada^ihia. the haggadahs are still available by nuiiL You can reMargo Bhiom, the muaeam'adirector, says, "The Itax- quest up to 10 ccqpiee at the cost of 76 cents each (to well House haggadah is important because it was dis- cover postage and handling) by writing to the Joseph tributed by a Christian corporatian, and it combines Jacobs Organization, Inc. 60 E. 42nd St., New Y(^ N.Y. 10166.

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The four sons as depicted in « reproductioB of a ^ medieval woodcut in the 1936 Maxwell House Haggadah.

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The haggadaha, which are used to pnunote Maxwell Houae coffee, have often become prized family poaaesaiona handed down from gsntration to gaoeratkia Early edition, from the 19S0's and '40a. are nostalgic reminders of ths immigrant expariarwo, whan Jewa couldn't aiway* alfotd to bity than.

It waa ths lati Joeeph Jacobs, founder of the New York City advertising snd msrketing firm that bears Us nams, who diasmsd i4> the OQQoipt of ths Maxwdl Houae haggadah to use as an advertising promotion.

According to Richard Jaooba, currant prMident of the Joseph Jacobs organization, his father had a hard seiL "The executives of GeiMrsI Foods, the non-Jewiah company that owned Maxwell Houae coffee, were quite reluctant, and uoderstandahhr ao, to uae a Jewish prayer book written in EngUah and Hrtuew to advartiae one of their producta," aaya Jacobs.

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H There's plenty of 'crazy activity' for Susie Drazen

By Bert Lewis Generally spealdiig, most Jewish womni will declare Passover their least favorite holiday, dting all the labor involved in a project that allows, at most, 36 hours for pnparation.

Mao generally speaking, most Jewish moi smile benignly and remark how much pleasure they derive from the very same aeason.

But don't KqMct the Paul Drazens to comply with these gtneralities. On the coontrary, it's Sune who says "I kive Pesadi. I love the foods and the preparations and all the craqr activity involved" She etplains "there's so much to do and such confusion, I just try to get hito the spirit and enjoy it all."

Conversely, Rabbi Drazen is the one saying "I doo't like Passover. I'm not Sand of the food. qMOge cake isn't my idea of dessert and the candies are awful." It becomes clear, after hearing his conplainta, the dissenter is a noeber and he dislikes the Passover nosherai

tine. But, both their home and apartment were Pesachdig and thsy were nrar the synagogue whenthey needed to be.

On a more serious note, they appear to like their own traditions. Rabbi Drazen remembers, as a child, "millions of people at the seder. And it went <« and on; it b^an with each and every male from the oldest on down, saying kiddush. And each child, from the youngest up, asked the four questions." In his memory, the evening lasted forever.

Susie, when asked what she remembers of Passover as a little pri, sqra, "watching my grandma make the fish." She remembers the "hockmesser" used to chop it and wonders how it all got dene without today's labor-

ne candlw »n awful . But much of the "I tove it" and the "I don't like it" seems to be mostly a good-natured exchange based cm at least a decade of practice. There is also some sentiment involved—Paul speaks of his pleasure in sedng, annually familiar Passover objects from his childhood, which are now part of his and Susie's inventory. Various dishes or salt and pepper shakers his own mother used are now oo the table for her grandchildren.

When Susie describes preparation for Passover last year, the listener is hard prened to understand how she can keejg smiling and sayifig she loves it. Passover of 1990 found the Drazens in their new home, dose to the site df the future Beth EL But the bnikling was still mostly a dream at that time and Passover does begin and end with hdidays. A working synagogue is a necessity, so the Drazens made the apartment on 49th street their headquarters.

That is, the kitchen was kashered and scrubbed for Passover, with all cbbmeU banished. And the same was done m the house, maqy blodu to the west Susie cooked in the apartment and on many days hauled food to the other address. lJn»Jiing to the logistics of the actual doming and going raninded one of a Keystone K(^ rou-

HM two Dnuna cUUran, Yoni,7, ead GOa, 10, IMI^ their parents onry food and dathing between their house and their apertnunt.

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saving appUanoes. She speaks of the ease with whkh she makes sponge cske, usfatg her dectrk mixer faistead of the hand-powered whidc her grandma had; and of the food processor whkh replaced the "bodonessar."

TImt hMvy Pataow cooking

And in a stage whisper the rabbi says, "yes and how many of these mipliaiwes have broken uada the strain of all that heavy food?" He goes on to count the actual, . number of days these mechanical labor savers are actually used and demonstrates that all the mlsh^M prove his theories about "all that heavy Passovar cooking."

But these young people enjoy their Passover, all the comidaints notwithstanding, liey sey their seder is not unusual—Gila and Yoni are accustomed to hearing their dad eqdain this practice or that tradition at the table.

They follow thefr own haggadah. Paol says, "It isn't necessary to redte each and every word and I certainly know those which must be read."

Susie laughs and says "I just have a good time with it. Some of it all, such as the hustle and bustle of the preparation, is so silly I can't help but laugh". But she expresses a genuine pleasure in the continuity of the entire season. Of her family traditions.

She notes how the childrcm participate in some of the preparations, already adding to the Drazen family traditions. And when she she speaks of the spedal "metoy look of the kitchen, with boxes holding the overflow," she makes the listener want to be there, too. Maybe to share the good time she's having with her Passover.

It should be noted here that while the beautiful new Beth El Synagogue is nearigg completion, it's unlikely it will be reedy for Passover 1991. Be advised then, should there be a flurry of movement east and wast on Dodge streets toward the end of March, it will probably be Susie Drazen, making two kitchens ready for Passover.

By the time we celebrate Passover 1992, she will surdy consider the preparation a simple task. After allr': there will be only one Idtchen to worry about!

RablH Paul Drazen is the qiiritual lead of Beth El Syn{ agogue.

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The Ashkenazi Haggadot provide information about how Jews actually lived in t^ Middle Agee; we see ilhutrationa of the preparation of matzah, the searching for chametz, the hiding and finding of the afikomen, etc

In the Mantua Haggadah, Abraham is aeen croeising the River Euphratee hi a gondola, with a standing gondolier. The wise son is a copy W Michdangelo'a Jeremiah from the Sistine Chapd.

WASHINGTON-The Haggadah ia the moat freThe Voiice Haggadah of 1609 begins with a page of quently illuatrated Hebrew text, beeanae it iafdr home In some <rf the Haggadot, the text that reed," In every uae, it ia short in teict and there haa atwnra b«en the wish go^eration a man should see himself as if he had come 13 separate woodcuts ilhistrating the order <rf the seder.

CO entertain and educate chfldraa at the aeder. . out of Egypt," is ilhistrated by a picture of a man look- The 10 {daguea are also illustrated by 10 separate recThe iUuatratiaaa add another form of telling the stoiy ing at himself in a mirror. In some, when the marror ia tangular woodcuts. These two devices became standard the Exodus. introdncad, there is a picture of a hnabaad pdnting at in later Haggadot.

Medieval iUmninated Haggadot divide into two hia wife, not at the bitter herfoa. Often, the Egyptian The Amsterdam Haggadah of 1696 was the first to grai^M—the Sephardi and AahkenaxL Sephardi Hag" taskmaaters resemble contemporary soldiers. be iUuslnted with capper eqgnnrings, rather than woodgadot, coming from Spain, have cjrdes of biblical ilhiaAfter the devakipment of printing in the 16th caotury, cuts, 1^ a convert, Abrdiam ben Jaocii. His iDustratlnu tntioDa narrating the Exodna, with some textual ilhu- msnuacr^t Haggadot were not longer copied and illu- were allied from one main source, loonee Biblicae, pubtratioii as well minated. In the 18th century, however, there was a Ushsd tqr Mathew Merian the Elder of Basle bi the midPerhqw the moet magnificent of theee is the Ooldn revival of hand- ilhutrated Haggadot for peraonal use, dle of the 17th century.

Haggadah dating from & 14th oentuty, which contains which were commiasioned by wealthy Jews in Central The Amsterdam Haggadah was reissued, with some a aequeooa of 16 fuDi^age miniatoraa, painted on a gold Europe. changes, in engraving in 1712 and became the meet bacfciBround ilfaiatrating the biUical story frcnn Adam Muy of theee artists copied the ittustratians from the influential aouree for later printed Haggadot and for np to the Exodua. printed Haggadot, which were then well known. The 18th-century Haggadot manuacripts.

But the most famous of ^wiish Haggadot is the artists, however, added thair own personal and contemEvery Haggadah is very much a product of its time Sarajevo Haggadah, also from the Uth century- porary touchee. One, "Jacob going down to Egypt," is probahly fr'Cm Baroelooa—which contains 69 lOmnina- ilhistrated with an 18th-century hcrsedrawn stage- and place. In the 20th coitury, there were Haggadot tions of 34 foil-page miniaturss; te cyde extends from coach. with woodcut Qhiatrations by the Jewish artists Joseph, Cnatiaa untfl the deatkof Moaea.

Hie first jnnted Haggadah, from Ouadal^ara, ^Min, Budko and Jacob Steinhardt Other famous artists hi^^ The story of the Sarajevo Haggadah is as famous as datee from about 1482. It was printed on both sidss of ilhistrated Haggadot, inchiding Arthur Szyk, Ben the manuscript itaetf. six small {oho pages without any cominentariea or Ohu- Shahn, Leonard Basldn and Ya'akov Boussidan.

In 1894, a child named Cohan, from the Sephardi com- trations.

But one of the most stunning oonten^ioraiy Haggadot munity of San^jevo, brought it to achooi to aaillt, after Only onelcopy of thia Haggadah exists, at the Hebrew ia a 1984 manuscr^ by contemporary wtist David Us fatlier had died and the family was in need of funds. University. In 1986, three faked copiee were produced. Moss. Imbued wiUi a deep knowiedge of Jewish history, So famous was this Haggadah that whan the Nazis Atteoqits were made to eeU them in America as authen- art and Haggadah text, this is qoe of the most Jewish ocoqiiied Sarajevo in April 1941, they hnmediateiy sent tic reeulting in indtetments and convictions in Federal of Haggadah iUuatratiotta ever, and viery much in the an oCBoer to the national museum toaiixe the manu- Court tradition of Medieval Jewish illumination. apript. Fortunate^, the museum director had removed Only fragments remain of the earliest known ilhisFor those who live in the nation'a oqpital, there is slso it fbr safekeeping hi the mountains. trated printed Haggadah, wfafch ia believed to have been a Haggadah known the world over aa the WaaUngton Aahkanazi Haggadot from Oeruany, FVanee and noc^ printed around 1516 in Constantinople.

Haggadah, which waa written and illustrated in 1478 them Italy do not inchide eydee of biblical picturea Tlie prototype ittustrated printed Haggadah was 1^ Joel ben SbneoD, the famous 16th<entuty Ashkenazi preceding the teoA. The iDuatntions, which are both bib- produced in Prague in 1626. It was beautiftilly deeigned scribe and illuminator. This Haggadah is now in the lical and ol the aader aervice and ritual, came only in with engraved borders and ia consklered one of the fineet Library of Congress. the text itself, usually in the margfais. hooka produced in the 16th ceotuiy.

The earUest known example is the Bhrd's Head HagOose analysis of the Washington Haggadah indicates On one leat iHdch ilhiatrates tlie Haggadah text gadah from about 130O in southern Germany. Its name "SheCoch Hamowha." <»• "pour out thy wrath." the tracee of wine and food stains, reminding us that Hagoomee from the fact that afanoat aD the people ilfaistrated bwders contain figures of Adam and Eve, Samson and gadot are not only beautiful objects but are a living part have bird-like CttuturM, as a way of avoiding portray- Judith with the head of Hoiofemee, and beneath them ^ our religiOTi. ing the human form. the Bohemian coat of arma.

Jennifer Breger writes on Jewish arta and books. lUs By the 16th century, we can see l^om the Darmstadt Other in^iortant illustrated Haggadot wwe printed Ha^adah that thMre we already human representations in Mantua in 1660, in Venice in 1609, and in Amatsr- article originally appeared in the Washington Jewish!

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Recalling Passover in Hungary ByBcrtUwia

'^wStBGeo Fettmaa recaUfl the preparatiooB for Passover in his teoUjr brane in Hungary, he smiles and talks about such minute details as carrying all the books outside, weighting down the front and badi covers of each and allowing the wind to blow through the pages. This ' waadonetobesuienotacrumbofehometzranained. ' He rememben how ck)thea woe also aired, with pockets tuned out and each garment carefully inspected.

After aQ, one might have had acruat of bread in tboee clothes at one time, so an can was taken to remove aqy possible trace. : The cantor hmembers what it was like in that little shtetl—39 or 40 Jewish families in aU. Ha tells of the community matao balmy which supplied the needs ot all; and he remembers too how each ftmily had their own Everybody was acmpulousty observant and each tended to sit down at tbudr own table just with family.

They didn't invite friends or Belabors (unless thqr hui no place of their own) to seder—each household had its own gathering.

Another diflaence from the American way is reflected in the selling of the chometz. Here, the.cantor reminds us, families bring their lists of names to the rabbi and the rabbi "sells the chometz" for them. Leo Fettnum remembers that everyone in his village took care of their traditional obligation individually. He remarks he had never seen our custom in Europe.

Cantor Fettnum mizee humorous stories with the serious. He laughingly recalled how the family cat was outfitted with "mittens" during Passover, to be sure that it didn't carry into the house anything forbidden which may have stuck to its paws.

PMSfivar ...a happy holiday He remembered too, how much Passover was celebrated as a hai^ holiday. No matter how poor a family mi|^t be, far Passover eve^^ effort was made to outfit each member with new ck)thes. "Even if we were used to hand-m»downs the rest of the time, for Passover we got brand new clothing."

PrqMffatiaa for Peaach didn't only occur immediatdy prior to the special week. Cantw Fettmant^ how the geeee were force-fed all winter, to be sure tlMy were good and fat at the the right time. The schmaltz from th«n was an inqxirtant ingredient for the season and the grebenes and the Uvcrs made for some special treats.

The feathers were an important item toft New idlows and featfaerbeds were.created from them—another "new for Passover detail."

In the Fettman household they made two Unds of wine for the holid^y-rgrape and raisiiL Thd grape was, of course, the traditiimal to be used for the seder. 1%e

raiain wasn't quite 80 strong and was the fovorite of the cantor's mother.

To listen carefully to the Passover memories of this man ia to alao have an opportunity to learn. In this case, an eiplanatlon was given regarding the three types of matso. There is the Bnti MaAzo P'shutta. This is regular matto, made qieeifically ki Passover use.

The second type is caDad Matzo Shmura. 1%^ matzo waa prepared with very special attention given to each grain individually, to make sure none had encountered eny mnsture. Thto is is the matzo favored by the cantor.

The third type is Mitzva Matzo, made from the same grain but baked immediately before Pessch to be used expreasly for the seder.

Among the tales told with humor was the description of how dlverware, for ezampfe, was kashered for I^asover use. The cantOT remembered an enormous vat outside in the yard. It was filled with water and then a brick, which had been heated red hot, was dropped in the water. The boiliog action created by this method was considered the acceptable operation for pKunging that which was chometz to okay for Passover.

The only somber note in his atory came when he remembered the dilemma of Passover in the concentration eaap. Among their group was a rabbi and Leo Fettman says they adted him how they could acknowledge Passover. To give up the tiny crust of bread cooskleied the daily rati<m was to relinquish most of thcfr nourishment. "The wise rabbi counseled them to abstain from their bread rai the first day of Passover only. lUs they did, remembering that each of the following days were, neverthelees, PBMOVOT. They survived, witii an impwtant memory of one special Pesach.

Cantor Fettman is a man who loves to be at his own table for seder, but believes stroDidv in a synagogue seder for those who woukt otherwise bB akne. He retains some of the very early traditi<Hi8 howevo-—the idea of each family being at his own seder. He tells how, when his daughter married and prqwred to leave home, she said "111 see you for Passover." He told her, "No. You come for every other yomtov, but for Passover stay home and make your own seder. If you doo't, you'U never know how," He proudly tells that hie son-in-law does, indeed, conduct his own seder. Just the way the boy raised in the Hungarian ahtetl remembers.

Cantor Fettman serves the congregation of the Beth Israel Synagogue.

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RIVERHEAD, N.Y.-K we had kaown what was going to hanMn, nuQrbe we would have fait auire oeiebratory at our faniily aedar two yaara ago. Inataad, too many people seemed to be going thrdogh the motiona.

FOT moat of my relativea, bondage meant sitting through the evanfaig, 40 years wan apsBt looking for the afikomen alone, and the long-awaited Exodus meant leaving for htune. The plague of cleanup was visited upon the hosts.

So I exaggerate a little. But there were strong signals, strong enough that I ahouldn't hav« been stunned when my pamta announced afterward that tUs waa their laat big family seder, that it had become "too much work."

Incredulous, I waa also angry.

"Too much work?" I thought. Every year—no matter what dse is happening hi our lives—my wife and I take time off work, pack the chiMren (and the do^ into the car and drive 312 mika (one way, but who's counting) on a miserable highway to my parents' house, in the name of being part of the annual famOy ritual.

Too much work?'

And this big dinner party for 26, to idiich everyone brings food, is "too much work?" You do the work, I felt, because it was in4>ortant.

My wife, who rarely misses an emotional beat, immediately jumped in. "So we'll do it," she volunteered.

My parents were not the only onea who were skeptical.

But the more we thought about it, the more convinced we became. The time had arrived for the younger generation of s&lings and couaina to take on the seder.

Now this was a weighty aet of tbooi^ts—not the least because, at 38,1 gratbaUyreaUaed thatfor me, this family generatiooal tianaitaan was going to be mixed in with tuining 40. That's why I did nothing about it for six months, until there was a seismic emotionai shift in our ^family.

One of my father's first cousins, a w<»nan who had ahnya belied to organiae the fiamily aedv, and irito was known as tite beet t»idger of the family generation gap, auccumhed to a mysterious, fatal lUnesa.

She was the first member of her geoeratian to die. Her children organized a magnificent funeral, a okovingme* morial to a life well and joyfully lived.

Proud uui conffdont

I waa {voud of my cousina, and confidoit, in a barely oonacUoa sort of w<y, that my generation had come into ito own, that in the future we would be handling the funerala, deddbig who would host the Chanukah party, gui^ng the fan^.

At the funeral, therefwe, I began talking with my thir^raomething relatives, and found them ready to aasume the seder; they, too, sensed the new emoticmal terrain being created bmeath ua. 9noe then I've been learning quite a lot about my family.

My younger brother, for faistance, who haa always anDO[yed me—and my fiither—at aeders for the way he tries to sabotage the aervice, offered to host it at hia new house, and aaked me to lead the peremony.

My cousin Sue, who wasn't raised religiously, found to her surprise that the service could be meaningful.

And aa I talked to people, I got a better handle on i^at I wanted out (rf the seder, the family seder. I found that I was eager to shoulder my burden in family matters. This is a little odd becauae I don't live nearby and never visit for very long.

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By LeoMod Winograd

strayed Jerusalem and laid waste the Temple in the atxth century before the common era.

PITTSBUROH-This ta the Dreek Of that uBkioely Jewiah featival obaervanee, the aeder. Two diffarant things an going oo^ adults art ralbringUie Bxodvstff' oar aaeeatWa Mn Egypt. atHfan alsb fulfilling the biblical commandment of teaching th^ children that we aro descended ^tmi alaves, on the very anniversary of that ndraculous ddttvarance.

The dog is Persia, which overthrew Babylon, and the stick Ja Greooe, which vanquiahed Persia.

The Four Questions are really one question with four different parta. We do thinga differently than at any other time juat to get the attention of the children, and then to make sure that they notice theae things, we teach them to chant the Four Quaatkma ao that they indeed moat natk» Jnat how diffMrent tUnga are.

The anaww to the Pour Questkms is "Avads«n Hayeean," we were alavea. We beUafva that we were aUvaa becauae it it wtra not true. It is not the kind d lie one wonkl invent One would be more likely to invent an ancient r«qral linaoga were one making.up a past to iitiM'saa drvnatic ritual of opening the door for Eliyahu 'Tbedi as wail aa tha saaroh for the afihoipM work to keep the children awake and alert. Thara is a whole panofiiy of chikfansn'a aooga whkh moat chlUm adon as Am aonga.

But one auch aong hu a partkMlarly inapiriag and bmeful meaaAga and ahottld be asplatMd at every oadar befora tha adulto aiiig it. That aoog Is "Had Oadya."

Each of tha Ustad victlma and vkjtora t^spnawta an aadsnt pow«r who was firat a conquanr and than one at tht conqioand. tlMS dvflitatiooa, unUka tha dtOdren of Israel, have kxBC ago left tha ataga of hiatorv.

"Aa^kki" is our pao|ria, wboaa faaart waa won by Ood with tlw two auain wUdi tw are tokl are the two tablato of tlba law, tlia Ten Commaadmnto. <tf

When dae, aa a family, do we get to mark arrivab and jpaJM&g, U'H^Ieome hew poelSrs of the Four Que||tions, to feel the loes of those who used to give us ttii) answers? ^ Most surprising of all, it turns out that I can't wa& to get my hands on the ritual itseU. Rituals can bind us, elevato us, and deepen us aD at once. I am convinced, with all the hubris of youth, that tomiBak* t^ ^^^^ ice work—for my parents, for my eMwns, for my children.

Passover is, after all, a stoiy with great miracles and thunderous punishments.

I don't know how it's all going to turn out. I hope my parenta like it. It could be a ridiculous flopand my days as a liturgist anil be over. But already I know this: We are going to drink wine and recline in our chairs; we're going to answer the children's questians instead of sending them off to watch TV; well cry from Intter herbs and ddight in the sweetness of charoset; well hide the iififcffnv*". and help our kids find it; and well celebrate Uie Exoduses of Eastern Eurc^.

Too much work? Maybe. But I can hardly wait.

Warren Goldstein, who teaches American Studies at the State University of New Yoric at Old Westbiuy, is the author of "Playing for Keepa," a history of early basebaO published by CorneO University Pnss. This a^ tide orif^nally appeared in Jewiah Monthly magazine.

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Traditions of tfte seder, ieading to Had Gadya

The mitsvah of tailing the children requiraa a apedd effort in order to hold i6p intereat of the little onaa aa long aa hnmnnly poaaibla. aoth<tithey can rianalw alert md learn wito they aia and how dear freedom is to us.

Much of religious litaratore can legitimately and cor tactly be read at twodiffmnt levela. Thia ia a naoeasity if we ar« to hold tiia interest of the children. Teaching them our story ia not a nkety—It ia a neoaaaity for oar survivaL

But I also know that I want my children to understand that th(«y have a Jewiah family larger than the one that aits ^wn to most suppera, and a ritual meal helps anchor that knowledge in thdr peyches.

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Tiiafi(»iaJtte>e, wUch conquered Greece, and the water k the Vandals, who sadrad Ronie. The ox tepreaente the Islamic powers, who absorbed the Mediterranean world as an ox drinks tlw water.

The altnghfiter of the OK would be the Crusaders, who cniiii0d|alani«But in the and, we are still here, and God will conquer dMth forever, slaying the angel of death aa God'a kingdom comae to rule with justice and brochariy love.

Iliis song should be interrreted each time for the adulta, and then it ahoukl be sung in a mocking singsong way as each of the mighty powers of the past takes osntar stage for a brief moment of preening and strut' ting. How often does it seem to us that the enemies of decency have all the tanks and all the planes. If only thay knew U>at aa each new domhiant power takes the stage, aomeone elaa ia stepping into the wings awaiting hia turn in the spotlight.

This i> God's worid and we an all just living in it. For all of Hitler'a boastful threate, he was in power only baa 1833 to liM6. Granted it was too long„but in terms of the age of a world whkh at the very minimum is 5,761 yeara old, hia adminiatration did not last long enough to be Bar Mitsvab.

So whan another tyrant wraps his bloody fingers aroaad aoma hapless nation, don't let him crush your heart because you will need your heart to live. R»member in our own time Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, khometni, George Uncob Rockwell, Charlaa Coughlin and Idi Amin, and how they all came to kneel bafon the mii^t of our Ood. 'Think of this at the aedar. Smile at our wonderful children, nod your head to tha music and wink at one anotha-that we Jews know a secret that givee us stnngth and hope for tha future. Let's not teU our enemiaa so that thay indeed do make foola of themsalvea bv acting aa though it wouki laat fbnver. Hitlar aakl that hia nich would laat a thooaand years. Where has ths time gooe?

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Each of the dghtem chaptera (one by each mem-, ber) provide ^ ^Unq>ee of a foreign place through the food of the area tnd a learning experience about other culturea.* In thia ex|doratian of the fooda of the world, one of the chaptera reflecto two major styles of Jewish cooking, Ashkanazi and Sephsjxlic.

The blending of generations cocddng together, the heritage and ancient traditions, the ddUgfatful stories and Wynelle Stein's warm memories all reeult in charming reading and 20 ddidoua redpee. One of her redpes follows: Guevos Haminados (Hard4MUed Egga. Sephardic Style) This centuries-old Sephardic method of cooking hard-boiled egga resulto in caramel brown eggs with a crsamy taxture and a light coffee flavor. The traditiraal method of cooking the eggs overnight intenaifiee the flavor. Save some onion aUna and tiy a batch.

Thaaa eggs are a must aa a part-of the Sephardic Paaaovar Sadsr meal and are alao prepared overnight for the Sabbath Deaayuno. Serve them, peated and cut into wedgee, with Greek olivea ud cubaa of Fete chaeae for a snack or amMtizer. Guevoa Haminados an good warm firoD the oven foe breakfast, sloneor with Bimudos (fried matit^.

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about the friend she brought along. This friend was not Jewish and knew little or nothing about the customs and traditions of the seder. And, "Oh yes; my friend was deaf. I interpreted everything as it happened—in sign language."

Paasovw meiiMHies often ran the gamut of emotion, espedally if aome of thoae memoriea are connected to World Wu II. On the other band, if tiw one remembering finds that period of time to be ancient histoiy, the memories are more likdy to be upboat.

Her other vividly remembered experience of that spedsl Passover season in Israel, '86, concenied a visit to the Jewish Music Center. There she saw a program described as Ethno-MuSicology. "Various groups of people, Yemenites, Moroccans and Sephardim sat at tables and enacted their own particular version of the seder."

She found it not only fasdnatibg but educational as well

Such was the case when I asked Karen Webber, cantor at Temple Israel, to tallc about her own Passover memories.

Cantor Webber bypassed persons! family gatherings and chose instead to talk about two unique seder experiences she had enjoyed in Jerusalem in 1986.

A large part of the story was her reaction to "just being there. To watch the city prepare for Pesach, to see entire businesses close completely. To just walk around and observe the people ss they got ready for the holiday was wonderful"

Not only fyuclnatlng, but educational

When Cantor Webber describes these unique events, she seems to relive all the pleasures of the experiences; the listener understands the profound effect they had on her. As for her ability to make the listener almost see what she has seen, well, this is talent combined with enthusiasm.

Obsente the people as they got ready.

Per the seder itself, the cantor was invited to the home of friends, a Hasidic family. She describes "a very leirge family with many children, in a vety small house. And many guests—thiere must have been SO people present" She recalls that "every w«d of the haggadah was read and there was singing... so much singing." She tells, "It went oo and on, frith the children falling asleep and stUlthqr sang and oontinued. It must have beeniriz or seven hi the eveoing when we started and it wasn't over until two the next momingt" In additian to the aeder itself, Cantor Wobber talks

Her early traming was for theater, music snd dancing-she must have dreamed of Broadway productions well beftve solo singing on the bimah was even a thought. Her ooOege majors aimed toward the stage until somewhere she turned a comer and made another choice.

Cantor Karen Webber stands hi front of a Joniar Choir boUetfai board at Tenpie Israel She holda a eonr of a Paasovw hi«gadah.

When the congregation is assembled in the sanctuary of Temple Israd and the cantor is fulfilling ba official duties, the congregants must be very ^ad she decided against a career oo Broadway.

"Let all who are hungry enter and eat.

H and all who are needy come and celebrate the Passover."

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By JoCamia Talk to Jake Adlar about Paaaover aw) he recalls memories of his famfl/a (deUcatesaen during the depraaBion years of the 19308 isOoiaha.

The deli, located at 1613 North 24th, was a family business headed by his father, Joe. His mother, Anna, also worked there. His sister, Helen Adler Diamond, took her turn at the counter, along with brothm Herman and Morrie, Vl^ Jake alao on hand the whole fernily worked together.

Paaaover waa a apedal time for the deli, but it alao meant extra woriL A month before Paaaover, an order for matio producta waa put in at Friedman's m Philadelphia. Nearly half a rail car waa needed to fill the order.

Orders for Horowite and Maidaohawitz producta were given to k)cal distributors to fill A barrel in the store was used to prqiare beet b<nvcht.

It took about three or four weeks to make. When it was

The deli had a policy to give a cent a pound off to pocff fi

"We delivered to people who couldn't get to the store.

The ddiveries were maJde in an old Chrysler sedan, the only transportation the family had," Mr. Adler said.

Pluity of hon0ndMi Tlie only Paaaover dairy producta the deU carried were mib and aour oeua TIM Roberts Dairy delivered to the deli and would also deliver to homee.

Tongue ud cofoad beaf arrived at the ddi in wooden barrela. Th«y were then cooked in large copper pota.

Cooked and sliced the price was 90 cents a pound.

Koaber salami, bdogna and wieners sold for 39 oeni^] a pound.

An ad in the Jewiah Plress read: "No fancy fixtweii,! no fancy prices, Just the best of merchaodiae at tl^| lowest pricee with the Adler family service. Hav«(|i^ kosher and happy Paaaover."

"We doeed the deU at S pjn. CO Paaaover eve and we|$ I home to change clothes," Mr. Adler said. His mot^| and sister had been home all week cleaning honae anS I preparing for the seder. ^1 "Pa and all the boya wodd walk together to the aini ^ at 24th and Nidiolaa for services," Mr. Adler remeoibers. "Then we would walk back home for the seder, where l^orrie asked the four queationa."

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finished a sign on the barrel appeared. "Free Borscht.

Bring your own jar."

Plenfy of hcffseradish root was bou|^ at the farmer's market and family members took turns grating it. "It was too strong for one person to do it aU," Mr. Adkr said.

The raw root was bought for 16 cents a pound and the customer could buy the grated product fen* 60 cents a quart Coffee from Maxwell House, kosher for Passover, came in one-pound tins with paper labdfl. Somedmea the labeb had to be put on the tins after they arrived at the deli. Free haggaidahs from Maxwdl House were available.

- Gefilte fish in a jar was a novelty and sokl for 60 cents.

"It waa not too much in demand. Moat people would go to the fiah marketa on 24th and Duff and buy carp to make their own," Mr. Adler recalls.

Farfol cake meal aoU for 11 cents a pound, while Horowitz and Maniachewitz producta war* 15 to 18 oanta apound. 't<<

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In search of freedom: ReflectloniB at Passover

By Amo Hanbatg (C*rji%kt Un, Uwkk Tiligiipirr Afmt, bcj

UNION, N.J.-It eeems to be a tale out of the history books. Almost 60 years have gone by, but events have never loat their fateful meanhig. We still harbor in our minda the vivid reality of the year that turned our lives into a frightful meas: 1933 ia not forgottaa For the last time, our family—all of them—aat itgather at the aeder table in a small town la GanaaBir. Wa radted the Hagaddah. We sang the old eonga. Bat the mekidiee ao daar to ua aeemed to have a different sound and the worda a new meaning.

"In every generation," we read, "tl^y atood up against us, to annihilate us, but we were always saved."

And we read it again: "In every generation somebody roae against us..." but would we ever be saved?

We Bpoko of freedom attained and freedom fought for—and we just had kwt our freedom. The wall waa doaing around us. The future was a queation mark full of deprsiaing omena. We were destined to be slsvee of a new Pharaoh.

W§ iurvlml thm all Six decades later thsre ia the oertahity. We survivai I them alL And we will aurviva them alLAB the Pharaoka that raised their ugly heada and did their best to tab* away our freedom and our lives during the years that , have gone by ainoa that fateful aedsr in the small Qar^ 1 man town, they all ended on the junk pife of history. i But they left a kit of devoted pupUa.1i>a venom th^ had spread left ita marit all over the worid. It is still there. Our anamlea have not raatad. As uaual, thay had their hc^MTB, the kind that pratanda to ba a IHaad b«t , wants to ram a dagger into your back. The dirty wank ' they all performadbas never ceased. lliey went after the dead, deeearating cemeteriaa. \ They want aftw the Uvi4|. (Uutng up the lias and innuaodoaa of paat oaiituriea. T&y biventad their coda I words, and again, laraai was the culprit. They aaid the ' -Holocaust never happened; that Zionism ia racism. -

It waaan endleaa ehaia ofaowardly attempts to wear us down, to never give us the freedom to live a normal life. Vm United Natitma, aenebody counted, ad^)t«d or tabled 175 rsaohitinnaagaiMt Israel, onnrtunnhigths Jewiab atate for one reaaon or other. If it ware not ao aerioua, it would be a joke.

We were good enough to be pushed aramid, objaeta of faiftetority complentea and hateful teachinga. It saeips atraaga, only when we are down, only whan wa auffar, our atodi ia rUng in the ayea of the wvrkL Then our patieneeirina pndae, our ability to take the blows becomes an awaaome ptua. Too bad we do not relish the role ol being the underdog.

One feat has proven again and agahi to be the enemy of freedom. Qreed, pure greed, baa invaded the thinking and the actions of those that should know better.

In decade after decade, the policy-makers, the politidana, the barons of industry, the bureaucrats, the guardians of morals in the East and in the West, they all are guided by an all-consuming selfishnees and • depraved aanae of rightaouanaaa that doea not care who the victims are and where the victims are.

Who made Saddam Huasein what he ia today? Who sok) hlflt the weapona that rain down on Israel and innocent soldiera? They all made the deals, the Germans, the French, the British, the Americans. Nevtr ndnd the conaaoWBOea. Evan If he did not pay, his credit was good. Five smart U.S. senators, indnding Robert Dole (R-Kanaaa) and Howard Motaenbaum (D-Ohio), viatted Saddan Huaaein on April 12,1990, and came away with the in|ireaaian that Saddam Hussein was a man of peace.

.you want p0§c§."

"I rsaliae," said Metunbaum, "you are strong and an intelligent man and that you want peace."

Laaa than four months latar Huaaein invaded Kuw^t.

A Oarman-Jewiah atateemaa once sakL If the people woukl know with how much atupklity thqr are governed, they would all revolt.

- TlieAraha would never hcye the dout and the nerve to dictate to the Weat what to do and what not to do, they wnuU ha bnpotanl ndtiiings ia the haBa of the DieUnited Natiooa. But tha Weatani tovaniments hookad on oil and ofl companies agreed to the Arab propoaition.

Flrat the Araha hiadrmail the ofl-consuming countriia and grab the doUara whmver they can, then they uae the dollars to bribe iadutry with orders. It is ths higheet degree of "stataamanaUp." Tbeae daya, with chOdrsn donning gu maaka in la^ reel, we ahouki never forget and alwaya renumber that it waa Brltata'a Foreign OfHoa that, a few years ago, denied laraal the ri^t to buy gaa maaka for her chOifrML

BrtMi'a hjfpoeri$y With unexcelled hypocrisy, Britain aaid that gaa maaks for chikfren couM be uaed for aggxeaaiva pi»< poeae. What dkl tbqr care if our chfl^aB wouki andura the aama fate Hitler onee had hi stoit for them. It waa much more important to aecure the MO billion order Saudi Arabia had given ttaun for weapons and military equipment.

"In every gaoaration aomabody roaa to mufiHhitf us..." In every generatkm it ia a never-ending atrvggia to maintain and to aacwfl our aiiatance. We era caaatantly in search of firaedm, whkh ia denied US ao oftan.

Nothing has changed aince the days the Haggadah was written. Nothing haa cha&0id aiw» 1933, whn the ddea dariMoad for us. Nothing has changed, when the tatt'i siles came down to chaUange patianoa and endurance., Only one thfaif haa chaafad fbrefvar Wa have the 1 pone and the naana to meat deetmction with deelni»-^j tion, to take UM bkiwa, but to dish It out whan I saiy. It ii a good feaUng. Amo Henberg waa JTA bureau chief in BerHn in thai 1930s.

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Passover at the Katzmans

By Carol Katnum Twas the d«y before Pesach, the house waa all dean.

The chameti waii gone, not a crumb to be seen.

The tables were set in the dining room with care In hopes that cor fatcSfy and guests would be there.

Rachel was nestled aD snug in her bed While Melissa and Jeffrey todi books and read.

And me in my kerchief, prepared for the seder.

The onions were frying; Rachd I'd wake later.

When all of a suddim there arose such a clatter, I ran back to the kitchen to see what was the matter.

Away to the bedrooms I flew like a flash, '"Hie Utdben's on fire! Wake Rachd and dashi" The rain on the lawn of the new springipeen grass Make it cdd as we waited for time to pass.

When, what to my wwidaring eyes diould appear.

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' More rapid tlian aa^ea the insurance men came.

They whistled and shouted and called us byname.

"Now Card, now lificbad, Melissa and Jeff.

And Rachd, now Katzmans, this is what's left: Your kitchen's a mees; the walls are all black.

The counter has mdted and the stove's out, in back, llie waUpaper's burnt and the ceiling is, too.

You'll need it all fixed, everything brand new."

May your home be blessed with Health, Love, and Joy this Passover and throughout the whole year

There was black smoke all over, to the top of the haU, So we cleaned away, scrubbed away, washed sway aU. Up to the house tc^ rags and mops flew With our buckets fall of soapsnds and our dothee, too.

The house still smelted like "eau d'har-be^iue" Bat the ehfckan soup babbled and smeQed better, toot I had to get dreesed and be ready <>•> time.

The fire uid the cleaning made me stop on a dime.

And then, in a twinkling, I saw in our home, The sighta of the holiday, that sweet Jewish poem.

As I knked up from scrubbing and then turned around, Down the atairs our three Uda came with a bound.

Iliey were dreeacd in ttasb beat, frtmi their heads to their toee.

They ware ready for Piaach, agt-M storiee to be told.

The children looked great, their amilee so mnry.

Their cheeks wen Uke roeea, their lipa like sweet cherriee.

Their cute little mooths wore drawn up like bows As they pranced the t&a kaahaa; good training shows.

A wink of their eyee and a twist of their heads.

Soon gave me assurance, I had nothing to dread.

They spoke not a word, but went straight to work, And filled aU the wine cupe. tlm turned, with a jariil Though the Haggadahs were eet near the wins and aedar plate And haroset by matzos, I shouted, "I'm latet" Our gueats ware aU herel Hugs and Uaaaa ware given.

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Each one e«claimad how our bouse "sort of stsnk."

But, in apita of it aD, the aedar went on.

The storiiw ware told and many aongs sung.

The meal was delicious (burnt onions and all).

Even the chiUien said, "We've had quite a baUt" As we all eyed the maee in the Utchan that night, We knew we'd cone does to having quite a fright.

But whan all'a said and done and last cup of wme drunk A new kitchen I'd get, so I was out of aty funki When the last guest was gone and drove out of eight.

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Saturday, Mardi 90 Paasovenr Morning Service 11:16 a.m.

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PASSOVER B'nal Jeshurun Friday, Marcli 29 PASSOVER Fast of the first bom Siyum 6:30 a.m.

Friday. Biiorch 29 Evening Service 6:15 p.in. ' ,'^ Congregational Seder led by Cantor Fettman, 7 p.m. First Seder at home.

Saturday, lljiiK& SM .

Satorday. Matdi SO .'

MoraiDg Service 8:4fi a.m. Congregational Seder Service will be led by Rabbi Richard t^'reund and CanLincoln tor Leo Fettman.

TIferath Israel Evening Service 6:16 p.m.

Congregational Seder led by Rabbi Richard Freund, PASSOVER 7 pn».

FrMay, March 29 M ;. «_ Sund^. Merch 31 Siyum for first bdia .. ., v- '_;• vv-Mincha-Maariv .. '.•.*.."'.

6:30 p.m.

.7:15 a.m. ;.. .6p.m.

Saturday, March 30 ...6:46a.m. Shacharit — .9:30 a.m. ^^ „ ^^ Second Sedw Aiai2rnS4 Smiday, Mardi 31 Morning Service ' 7 a,m.

9:80 a.m.

Evening Service 6:46 p.m. Shacharit Coadoshm of Paaaover "^ Conctarion of Pas«»v.r Friday, April 5 Thursday, April 4 .9:30 ajn.

Evoiing Service 6:45 p.m. Shacharit Evening Service .8 p.m.

Friday.AprilS Saturday, AivU 6 Mocning Servtos 8:46 a.m.

Beth El Morning Service (Yiskor wiH be redted) .. .9:30 a.m.

Servioe wOl be led by Cantor Leo Fettman.

Rabbi Paul Draun and Cantor Emfl Berkovits wOl Ev«niitg.%CKinr • '-• 6:46 p.m. conduct theaervioea.

Satorday, April 6 PASSOVER Council Bluffs Morning Servioe8:46 a.m. rrfiiV,ManA29 B'Nal Israel Servioe will be led by Rahhi Allan Goosher and CanSiyyum Bechorim u 6:30 ajn.

PASsoviai tor Leo Fettman.

Ba'or HaiBsU OMUt be ooovleted by 11 a.m.

Yiritor 11 Friday, Mardi 29 Minha a'ariv 6 p.m.

Evening Service 6:46 p.m. Congregational Seder .6 p.m. \l' Saiuiday, March 90 Shaharit 9:30 a.m.

Minha a'ariv .-.^ 6 pjn.

Congregational SadMr will foOow services.

Soday, Mardi 31 Shaharit 9:30 aja Minha a'ariv 6:60 p.m.

MoMAay-Thniday, i^rfll-4 Caadaalen of Paaaei m Shaharit 6:45 a.m.

Minha Ma'ariv (anept Thnraday) 5:30 p.m.

CeadnahNi of PMsovar ThisiiU, April 4 Minha a'ariv 6 p.m.

Friday, i^wO 5 Shaharit 9:30 a.m.

Minha a'ariv 6 pjn. flalidaj. JVpiUfl Shaharit (Yiskor is ledtad) 9:30 a.m.

Minha a'ariv 6:46 pjs.

Paasover ends Saturday night, no eariiar than 7:15 ^*^i'?.??:?Si^i5?.^'^u'^''*^^'* April 2, AduH B'nai Mitcvah, 7-9 p.m. *'•"*• MEN'S CLUB BRUNCH Men's Club will hold ite moBtUy hrundi on April 7 «t 10 a^mT^ speaker win be announced.

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AlookattbetpeeUiUiyaoftbeJewi^jmr... ByOahNogg The obligation of Jewish parents at Passover is clear.

"And you shall tdl thy son on that day, saying, "It is because of that which the Lord did for me wtoi I came forth out of Egypt."

In other words, we are duty bound to tell the Exodus stoty to our children. (You doo't get off soot-free, by the way, if you have no kids. You still have to tell the stoiy to your seder guests. And if you're alone at Passover, you must recite the story to yourself. But I digress...)

Ideally, children should not only hear the Exodus story but also participate with great and sustained enthusiasm. This isn't easy since (for most youngsters) the seder has, at best, maybe three high points. The Four Questions, the AfDcomen hunt and the moment when we finally sing Chad Oadya (finally being the operative word.) Betweoi these three peak experiences, most kids fidcBt, yawn and/or cry, and it's been this way for ages.

(Even Rabbi Aldba "bought" the attention of the children at his seders by giving them dried ears of com to play withi)

eat...") is written in Aramaic Why? According to traditi<m, demons understand Hebrew, so this open invitation to the Passover meal waa written in Aramaic (which demons don't understand) to prevent the little devils from joining our iseders.

God to release them. God answered, "The bondage still has almost 200 years to go," but the women begged, "Give our men back to ua now, aad we promisa they will remain aUves." (Rabbinic humor can be quaint caH it not?)

*The preferred ww to dispose of chometz is by burning. Bat, it may also be crushed and thrown into the sea, scattered to the winds or simply renounced as being void as the dust of the earth. Under so circumstances may you dispose of chometz by feeding it to your pets. You may, however, fhiah it down the toilet (which could result in the rotoTootar man joining your seder, whether he knows Aramaic or not)

*Why do we drink four glasses of wine at the seder?

Because the Jews, while in Egypt dki four virtuous acta.

They kept their Hebrew names, kept the Hebrew language, stayed moral and told only the truth. (Even a teetotaler moat drink four gjassee of wine. One R. Judah did so and then had to "tie his temples until Sukkot" Surely this must be Che longest hangover mmtioned in the Talmud.)

*The song, Dayeno, enumerates 15 "wonder" acta of God and gave tlw sagee exercises in gemattia. Fifteen, they expUdned, ia the numerical value of the Hetuew "Y" and "H" which spdl <me of God's namesl

*Another Passover favorite, "Uehod Mi Yodeya" In 42 CE, a cenaus Of the Jews was taken by (Who Knows One?), describee God's 18 Attributes. counting the Iddnoys of the paseaiaaeritlees Some say this song was originally a learning tool, with one verae being memarixed each year until b^ reached Bar tfitxvah age. (For some reason, this song was also sung at Jewish weddings in Cochin, India.)

K9tplng th9 AMi IntwMted and *If a bachelor conaaa into your house while the door *In 42 CE, a census of the Jews was taken by oountF nnki during the seder Is tough is open for Eiy ah, the gity win many one of your dauf^ teral (Please don't blame me if thia doesn't work...) ing the Udnqrs raoioved from the pascal eacrificas. *8av9 a little piece of Afikomen. It will ensure easy (600,000 pair were counted.) An equally sdtotific census childbirth, protect against fires and (if kept for seven of the New York Jewish population was taken in 1869. years) prevaot floods. Or, toss a piece of Afikomen in That year, q)pnaimately 274,000 pounds of matzoh Yea, keeping kids interested and awake during the to the sea and youll have a calm cniiss since it is writ- was eaten in NYC. An ao, figuring 6 Iba. par person seder is toii^ But let's face it. Keeping adults from ten, "For He hath ddivered me out of trouble" aad the (gulp), it was estimated that 64,800 Jews lived hi the nodding off is no dnch, either. After all, the Exodus first tetters of those words (in Hebrew) speO nutaohl Big Aipple. ^tory is the same every year, llie seder menu very rarely •Speaking oi apples. Why are thqr the main ingre•Haggadah art often shows the Four Sons in "profesvaries. And, since Passover is usually a family affair, sions!' conaideied suitable (or unsuitable) for nice Jew- dient of Charoeet? Becauae the Israelite women, while even the faces around the table don't change much ish boys. The wise son usually has a beard and a book. in Egypt, gave birth to their babies in spple ordtsrds. (although birth/death, marriage/divorce w new friends The wicked son is drawn as a soldier, a boxer or a'clean- They chose the apple ties becauae only after it haa bom can alter the sceno^ a bit) fruit do the leavee grow to protect the fruit "We will do the same," said the women. "We will bear our chilSo how do we keep our seders from becoming totally predictable? What should we do it we start losing our dren under apple treee, and God will protect our chil- audimce, so to speakT dren and redeem them." . e • • We should, in a word, speak!

And here we are, back with thaldds! Which makes TTie wMcedsonls dnwn tsa...

During the year, it's a virtue to say little and do much. sense considering how pivotal children are to the PaaeBut on Passover it's a virtue to talk at length about the clean-shaven butinessman wMi a ciguette over story. historic events we're commemorating. And so, in an >••'(!••- ><»-';•'•'••---.'i • effort to open the eyee^teraUy and figuratively) of the neaMmber-nuumah oOapad to free the Jfwa if tfatjr people at your seder, here is some uncommon (hopefully) wodd leave their chiUren in Egypt But Moees insisted.

Passover commentary. Speak about any or all as "With oar young and our old we will go." And then, needed... shaven businessman (I) with a cigarette. And the son when the wandering ended, the older Israelitee had to 'Tradition says the Jews left Egypt 2248 years after who does not know how to ask is seen •rifwiW'ig himself stay behind in the desert. Only their chikfran were The C^«ation on Thursday, the 6th of Nisan. (If chal- in a mirror. (One haggadah, to illuatrate "this bitter allowed to enter the Promised Land. lenged on this, denoand iirefiitable proof to the contrary. herb," shows a man pointing at—his wifel) We must let our children enter our seders. We must You are the host.) *lihe Israelites were to be enslaved in Egypt for 400 tell them of the Exodus that they may, in turn, tell it *Much of theyHaggadah, including Chad Gadya and years, but ware redeemed after 210 years. Why was their to their childiea HaLachma Anya (the main reading of the Haggadah bondage shortened? Beeauaa the righteous women of And if they fid^iet and yawn, ao what? We can always which declares, "Let all who are hungry, come and Israel deeperatdy missed their husbimds snd beeeeched use R. Akiba's com tridt.

Not an illusion UNO baaketball stv PUl Cartwilght appears to qvont fkoaa a ganka of cMkfrn, but the 6*11" piayw ia on his feet aonMiMied by yooagatera from the FrMal Jewlah Aeadsmy. Dwiag tUs irUt, he an•wared sports qpieetkina and read atoriea. The book he is hoUlag la abovt Paeeovw. The cUldraa are: Jonathan lulaar, Tamiay Variuwy, laa Geraon, Jamie Hamborg, Ethan Horwlta, Maksim Ziakov, Naomi KatakM. Aaroa Rldi, RenaU Ziakov, Matthew Larasr, Haa KheroahnkUa, Aii Glover-Ettiidi.

SMn Staadifar, Staphaale Ooldsteta, Jeffrey Baam aad Jacob Katamaa. Next to Mr. Cartwrtght aad hardly visible is Ethan Horwits who is staading on a ebdr.

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Passover past, present, future.

Jewiak PlMK I wfoto this five years ago, about four years aft«r my tether's death, and one year afta* the bfrth of oar soo.

Adam is BOW six (orwill be by PMssovtr) and our daughter, HicheUe, is one and a halt Psssow has changed during the last fivs years, having been held at sevoid diiilierant homes after the death of my Aunt Ruth Turner, at whose house it had ahrays been hdd. The first year was hard, but now th«« has i becomeasesiseof adventure, and creativity, a sense of continuing love and greatfidness that we are still togcthnr, moving vp and down the tidble, despite the changes fai all d our Uvee, snd thb year once again, we wiB welcome a new member of the funily, my craudn Jill and Qus's baby boy, Chad, as we move forward into the new generation.

I am the daughter of Susie and Howard Kifilan, and now live in Colorado near Colorado Springs, where I liave a private practice tutoring and teaching wcrkdiops for teachers, and my husband, John, designs ami markets acreenprinted apparel.

Thanks for readingi Nancy Kaplan Marshall DMT

"He's miaaing. We can't do it without himi It's wrong, it's just all wrong," part of me wanted to yell that first Passover after my father died, and my brother sat in the chair at the head of the table. The same words I'd wanted to yell years before when my dad sat there for the first time, in the place that belonged to Grandpa Sam. Dad was my anchor, I thought, my source of unconditional love, and I was crushed and angry that he had left us. But it was Pesach, and there we were in the -^chairs at the Passover table. The peqple: my aunts, , uncles and cousins. We gather from across the country . and make our family. There is a place for each of us, as well as the extras: the people who join our fsmily for a night or two, tor a lack of their own nearby. And every year the joke about the "bootleggers" (really "bootstrappers"! who would join us when I was Uttle.

I notice this year how we move up and down the table: babies at the end, children and guests in the middle, and tnose who ftdknr ckiwly, at the head. I remember ner^ vously grsduating to one of those middle seats to ssk the Four Qoestkiaa, and later, with great pride, sitting

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at Qrandpa'a rii^ aide to bold tbo water for the handwashfaig, and start the disroses and bitter herb.

Passover is a pUos of naemoriss and a yearly measure of growing iqi. Tonight as Ilook down the table friMn the other end, I suddenly realise that we are all ha«.

No one is missing. We sre all here, from long before Grandps Ssm and his bride, Susie, through my mother's fiunOy snd my father's, snd all tJis aunts and uncles, snd brothers snd sister right down to this miraculous little boy St my side. He slept and nursed through his first Pessch last year at the age of six wedcs, and now

sits and watches beside me, the canter of my world and love.

He ia the newest member of our family, a culmination for me of Grandpa and Dad, all the generations down through the agee: my husband's history and mine.

I thank them all for making this little boy possible.

Someday hell sit at the other end of the table and wonder how it aU contes and goes so quickly. I reslize that Grandpa and Dad sre my symlx^ for love, and the love is the anchw, and that an anchor is not one person, but all people, all family, all Judaism: Past, Present and Future.

There are always connections

By Jo Carroll A few years ago when Edythe and Martin Wolf found out their Myrtle Beach golfing vacation coincided with Passover Uisy wondered what they woi^ do for a seder.

After calling around to several friends in town they found thst Rabbi Sidney Brooks had a classmate who lived in Myrtle Beach. Armed with a telqihone mmiber and an address they left for the sunny south expecting to attend a communal seder.

Mrs. Wolf took a copy of "Our Story," a history of the Omaha Jewish community, and a Jewish cookbook so that where ever they ending up spending Passover she could be hospitable and also leave a little bit of Omaha behind.

When they arrived in South Cardina, they called the number and discovered it was a residence. To their^urprise they had been invited to attend a seder a family's home, someone they had never met.

On Passover eve they drove up to the hoUse. Mrs. Wolf recalls, "I had butterflies in my stomach, but it was too late then. There was nd baddng out."

A nice couple answered their knock at the door and invited them in. A little older than the Wolfs, Uie husband was a dentist. "There were two extended families in the home for Passover," Mrs. Wolf said. "Children and grandchildren were everywhere."

The Myrtle Beach couple had left word at their synagogue if anyone ever needed a place to spend Passover

there wss always an open invitation. "We'll take any strangers," th^ told Mr. and Mrs. Wolf.

"But we weren't strangers long," Mrs. Wolf recalls.

"They were v&y hospitable and in a few minutes we forgot we weren't relatives."

Two BMtended famlllas ...for Passover

The old Union Hagaddah was used and they "fdlowed it word for word," Mrs. Wolf said. "It was a traditional seder and after it was over we chatted long into the evening."

Mrs. Wolf was surprised they served much of the same food she liad had at her own seders. "Even the 'chopped liver tasted the same.

"It's interesting how you can travel a 1000 miles, not know any Jews in the area and still be connected. Being Jewish transcends the boundarus of age and cultures."

Mr. Wolf agreed with his wife. "There is a Jewish network almost anywhere you go. We felt like we were among friends in Miytle Beach. It was quite unique. Hie food was actually the same," he said.

"But it was the first time 1 had beard Hebrew spo-' ken with a southern accent," lie i^ai^.

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Weekly journals cover many Fassovers

By Jo Cantdl One shelf of Sol BkxKn's library is lined with journals.

Bach Sunday he records the events of that wtik in one 9f these journals. Among the stories contained in the journals are narratives of Passovers spent in Nigeria and the Philippines.

In the late 1960s, Dr. Bloom and his son, Ronnie, who was 16 at the time, attended a seder in Ibadin, Nigeria.

"I imagined that the Nigsrians were really vassal Egyptians serving tis. Tbgy made me think of when I first got to Palestine in ths mid '40s, and on the street were taU, skinny tribal people with scarred faces. Tliey were Sudaneoe."

'"n» seder was a nice affair attmd by about 16 to 20 famiUee," he said. "The head waiter must have attended a lot of these seders, for whoi it came time to sing he sang all the songs."

"In my mind I transposed the conditions. The black Nigerians serving us for me were the black Egyptians.

They were the oppressors and now th^ are aorving us."

Dr. Bloom lived in TwQB, a village not far from Ibadia He was woridng for the United States Department of Agriculture helping to improve the country's livestock.

He and his son had been invited to the seder by an Israeli family he had befriended.

The seder was a communal one, being served in a large hotel that had been built by leraelia.

A tattered menu from the evening is in the pages of Dr. Bloom's ledger. It reads, "Stuffed carp, Consomme with nuftzo balls, Knedlich, Roast Chicken, Braised Beef, PisBolettee (Potatoes), Green Beans and Coffee."

Later his work would take him to the Philippines, where he lived from 1971 to 1980.

In my mind, I tnnsposed the conditions

Dr. Bloom said, "I found it very interesting that my 8<»i and I were being served by Nigerians."

"The <mly synagogue in the Philippinea was destroyed by the Japanese in World War II and had been later rebuilt by G.I.s." Dr. Bloom said. , "Two Jswish brothers from Baghdad, named Toeg, ran the synagogue. There was no rabbi in the country at that tin)e."

"I spent nine seders in the Philippines," Dr. Bloom recalls.

"The coiAmunal seder was hdd each year in Manila."

The matzo and boxes of wine would be shipped well ahead of time.

Pram weekly writings In his Jonraal, Sol Bloom recalls Passovers spaat la Africa and the PUIippioea.

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"Usually about 40 Jewish ftunilies attended. "It was an assortment of people. The brothers from Baghdad, aotaa TurUah Jews, and • few Israelis and the Amoicana w(^dng on the island."

"HM seder brought the community together. It was run in an Orthodox manner, but evanwie was wel-

In an eHort to pull smne of the community together, he said, "Soms Jewish woman on the island put tofBthsr a cooklMok of Jewiah dishes."

For ths third year in a row, Dr. Bloom win doounent his aeder this year in Omaha.

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Baking matzot under threat of Scuds Bjr Cathriae Oeraon TEL AVIV—Baldn« nutsah is a demanding taak undffl* the best of conditions. Halachah, or Jewish lav, lays down strict rules: if the dough is left unworked for more than 18 minutes, it is deemed unfit and must be thrown out.

The baker has to start from scratch, cleaning every utensil and oven with meticulous care to make sure not the tiniest speck of leavened don^ is left lying around.

Imagine, then, the problems created by the recent Persian Gulf war, when Iraq was lobbing Scud missiles at Israel.

Most of the Scuds fell in the Greats Tel Aviv area, where most matzah bakeries are found.

The emergency occurred at the busiest time of the year, when the bakeries were churning out thousaods of pounds of Passover matzot for domestic use as w(U aafot export.

Nevertheless, every time the ai^raid sirens sounded, the woricers left the doug^, put on their gas masks and went into the gas-proof sealed rooms.

"As usual, we worked three ahifts to produce the matzot," David Wolf, one of the owners of Matzot Aviv, the largest bakery in Israel, told the Jewish Telegnqihic Agancy.

"We have seven kashrut supervisors, and nearly every time we had to start right from the b^inning after tl^ all-clear was heard," he said.

The holiday has several names. Pesach, or Passover, is derived from the Angd of Death qwiing the first-bora Hebrews in the Tenth Plague. The Festival of Freedom hails the release of the Ivaidites from slavery in Egypt.

But the holiday is beet known to most Jews as Chiag Hamatzot—the Festival of UnleaVmed Bread.

Matzot Aviv, in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, is a familyowned business baking and e]yiorting many millions of matzot every year.^Poantdsd over IQO years ago as a small business, it is now laraeTs largest exporter of matzot, accounting for nearly 60 percent of sales overseas.

Wolf was not willing to give nact figures, saying only that "a large part of the production goes to oqwrt.'

Some of the destinations are the United States, England, Belgium, Australia and '*evwywh«re there is a Jewish community, including Russia."

Althouj^ the main product is the regular matzot, Aviv also produces some exotic varieties such as a sweet brand, made with agga and potato juice, bran and whole wheat matzot, different kinds of matzah msal and "mat* zah shmura," Wolf said.

Shmura matzah is baksd. with wheat whkh has been guwded all year to ensure its purity. It is baked by hand to ensure that no part of the dough comes into contact with moisture, which could cause fermentation.

The Chabwi bakery, in Kfar Chabad. bakes 700 tons ot ahmura matzah every year, asoding much of it to Chabad emissariea in Jewish communities around the worki.

"We send our matzot shmura to Russia, to Hong Koog. and oven to Nepal" Yoesie Itoichik, asMdato director of the Chabad Youth Organisation, told JTA< During the months before Pesach, Chabad takes schookhildren on tours of the matzah bakery.

"Usually we have about 30,000 kids contBg here, but this year there wUl be fewer because of the emergency situation, which prevented ouUngs during the war," he said.

Chabad incorporates these visits with a slide show about Pesach. They show seder evenings held in faraway places, like Nepal, for example.

A 50-year celebration Show* upMr left, at a aedar in 1«M, an DtbUe Joasphsoa's gnsMUirthw, Onis Lmk Beetaiv aid kw grsaHtraadlathar, Abe Beeiw. la the lewar fbiwe, at a sedar la 1986, are Mis. JesiyhseM's fstlMf. Harold M. Becker, aad her soa, Alaa Loida

We had no mateoh, we had no wine ByUIlyB.Baia • piece of a roi^ n* Mkniteg an exevpte from the book "My StofT" It was qaiac1942 and it was Passover time. We had kf my a. Bob: nothing to calabrate this joyous feast. No festive decorated taUes, ai^ wine, no matnh. But we had our voices, One d«)r it caught up with OS. Late after BDidnigfat the and the old, boaiMifal songs rang vigorous and cheerful big track ftofiped in front of the hoiue. A hard Imock to heaven. Instead of saying the blessing over wine we at the door wad the loud call "opeaiqi." All tenants had said it over a cup of Mack coffee and the blessing over to line up in tlie liallway. The sis man called the names, the matsah over a piece of ordinary, old bread. then handed the list to the Jewish escort and lefL We were always ready and sat still waiting for the truck to But the Passover some thousands of years ago and bring us to the train station, from where we wiO be the Passover of 1942 had mwe differences thsn coffee deported to a concentration camp. Our brains were and bread. While the Israelites then traveled into freeempty, where our hearts were suiqioeed to be, there was dom, the Jews now went into captivity.

We also dkln't have prayer hooka and we remembered in our hearts the difficult tfanes the Jews endured in Egypt As slaves and with joyful hearts we talked about the successful rescue of the Israelitee frmn slavery into freedom. We found some relief from our anxiety, when we compued the horrible time then, with the desolate situation we were in now.

Our hope was renewed, that also we will see the day of our ddiverance. For mUlioos this day never came. But we the few survivors nourish stiU the hope, that Israd will remain in spite of all tribulations. God's love and a miracle will w(^ togetl^er for the continuous existoice of the Jewish nation.

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By Jo GMrnU On the ta)>le in MarUyn Pnd'vdining room is • stack of blue, hardcover haggadaha. Tliey look just alike, somewhat worn, but well kept Only ofter you begin to open them are the differences revealed.

Iliese haggadaha were gifts of Mrs. Pred's parents, Phineos and Sadie C. Wintroub, to her cbildrm and other members of the family. The grandparents wrote in the haggadaha about diAereot events as they oocuned in the children'a lives. ' "1966, Dear Robbie, Your first year of Talmud Torah and you can read the Hebrew beautifully at the Seder Tabto and both your grandpas and grandmas 'Kleibed Nochas.' " (A Yiddish term meaning pleasure from the achievement of a child.)

Another book reads, "Rachel, you made oar Seder beautiful whoi you asked the first question in EngUsh— just the way you learned it in Sunday School. Your Grandma and Grandpa are proud of you," Mrs. Fred says that until the mid '70a her father con-, ducted the seder at a house located at 111S. 60th Ave. Her children still refer to the house as the "111 house."

The presence of many guests required that an extension be put on the dining room table. £arly seders are also in Mrs. Pred's memories, seders conducted by her grandfather, who read the entire service in Hebrew. It started at 6 o'clock sharp and everyone was eating by 7:16. . Daring her< childhood, the Maxwell House haggadah was uaed. "No one could afford anything dae," Mrs. Pred said.

TUs year Mrs. Pred will lead the seder at her house, using the same dishes her grandmother, Sarah Corenmaa, used. She has been giving it a lot of thought.

It k vary important to Mrs. Pred to set a beautiful table with her grandmother's dishes. Also adorning the table will be tlw children's inscribed kiddush cups. "It is important to keep traditkm alive."

But some of the traditions take care of themselves.

Her children ant<xnatical]y ask for thdr own haggadahs when they sit down at the table, the haggadahs that have been so lovingly inscribed by their grandparents when they were young.

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She's loddng forward to her 26 guests and plans for her grand-nephew to ask the four questions in Hebrew.

According to Mrs. Pred, more meaning ia givan to the Passover service when special prayers are inaarted. For example, prayers for the HolocBust victima and for the Soviet Jews.

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The Jewiah Pnaa received a variaty of Paaaover redpee from members of the community. Some of thoee rec^Ms fallow, many with comments from the person who submitted the redpe. .^ Anyone who knew my motAerin-Joiv, Mary Btnutien, eon UU you what a fine cook and baker she was. My three chSUren were bom in April so there was always at least one—sometimes two ofBobi Bemstien's mUehigh birthday cakes—light as a feather.

Before and during Passover her phone was ringing constantly with requests for her recipes. I think it was her own talent that made her cakes so good. However, here they are for you to try. Lds Berastlen PASSOVER CAKE I 9 eggs, separated 1112 cape sugar 3/4 oqi cake BMSI 1/4 aq> potato stardi Jnioe of one lemon Jniee of 1/2 orange Sdt Beat yolks with su^r until cnttny. Add juices. Sift fkmr and starch 3 timss. Add salt to whites. Beat unto stiff. Fold in after you have added flour. Pound cake down for air babbles.

Bake in an angd food pan at 360 for 1 hour.

PASSOVEB CAKE II Ml 1SM( ^fdesaf lai Mesef 1 orange BiMlod 2i 7/8 aq> potato starck 1/8 cup cake meal Beat yolks unto lemoo ooiorsd. And 1/2 cop sugar and bsat bard. IUK Jukes, rinds and water and add to yoDu. Beat wfatts until stiff and tkmfy add 11/4 cup sugar.

CoBtinM basting to stiff peaks. Fold yoDu into white.

Sift 7/8 cup of potato starch and W cap cake meal 8 timea. Fokl in last Bsks at 826 for 1 hov and 20 minutes.

PASSOVER BANANA LATKES 3 eggs 1 teaspoon salt 3/4 ciq> cold water 1 taUeepoon eager 1 teaspoon daaiuaon 11/4 cap autso BMSI 2 large benaaas sliced Peanut oil for frying Combine eggs, salt, water, dnnsmon and sugar. Add matzo meal and mix. Fold in bananas. Drop by tablespoons full in oU. Serve with jdly or fruit.

1 l/4eapaBugar 1/2 cop oO Isss I tableepooD 1/2 toaapeoa aaU

Jaiee af 1/2 Imaam 1/2 ttp chopped waimita 1/2 cv potato stardi 3/4 cap cake aNal Mix all ingredients. Put in 13X7 pan. Bake at 360 for 36 minutes.

Cut in stripo-roO in rimiamon and sugar.

Bake an additional 16 minutes on codde sheet.

1 capautao 1/2 Beat egg whitee till stiff. Beat ydks snd fold into whitea. Fold in matzo meal and salt slowly. ChOL RoU in balls sod boU in water covered 20 ndnutea or longer.

Add to soup and boil 6 niautos kmger.

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H^naniome of my favorite recipes for Passover. SylfiaRoss.

MATZO CHEESE KUOEL Saiataoe, anfafokea 4egge a/4c«peiwar I tabiaepooa grated lemon rlad \ 8 tabisapscns laasoa Juiee 18/4 immpmm saH (optioaal) [2 rape milk \VA cup batter or margarine \l peud pot ehsese or fanaen dMooe Cover matio with luke warm water and let stand 3 nutes. Drain carefully on paper towels.

In s bowl, beat eggs with sujur and add grated knnon j, lemon juice, salt and mfflt. Mdt butter in an 8 x 18 inch baking pan and tilt to coat sides of psn with ilted butter. Drain azcsss butter into nUk and egg , Place two drained matsoa in pan tide by aide.

I half the ehsese over matco in pan, top with two •tto and add the remaining cheeee. Place final two stso on top of cbaese and poor egg mixture over top.

Bake in a preheated 880 wgree oven for one hour or itU golden Ivown. Sirva hot or cold with patchse or r fruit. Serves 10.

PASSOVER LATKES 2 eggs, beeten (csn use egg snbetitate) 2 tea^oons salt 1 tee^MionoU 1 rap water 3/4 rap matao meaL Beat everything together tOl smooth. Heat frying pan with dl or msigarine; drip mixture in tableqNMas. Fry 5 minutee; turn and fry tfll dene on other skle. Take out and eat (Mokes 10; double for 8-9 peopte.)

PRUNE WHIP 24 ounces pitted prones 2 large r^w bananas 3 egg whitee chopped note (optional) Place prunes in a pot, add water enough to cover.

Drain and save liquid. Put prunes throu|^ a food mill or mash very fine. Add Uquid and Mend. Mash bananas and add to prunss and mix wall Boat egg whitee until CINNAMON-WINt; CAKE stiff and fcM into prune mixture. Add a few drop of (Psnn^ lemon juke (optional). ChOl for several hours. Top eech from Susie Shyken serving with nuts.(optianal) This recipe can be used as a dessert, as a topping for slicee of cake, as a maringue, 12 eggs, separated or as a breakfast fruit. It will keep very well for the 11/2 cape eager 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice whole week of Passover.

1/2 cqi wine NVT AND RAISIN COOKIES 1 eapcakemeal 1/2091 1/2 aqp potato starch 1/20191 1/2 cop chapped nate Beat egg yolks untfl lifl^ Add sugar, lemon juioB snd 8eggs,bsaianwell wine. Blend weD. Stir in coke meal and potato starch. l/2eapiaisias Beat egg whitee unto stiff sad fold bto batter. Take off lA teeopoon eeU 1/3 of batter and Uend dnnanxm into this. Spoon dn1/21 nsmon snd whits betters altetn^xiy into ungrsased 10" Add aU ingredients to beaten eggs and let the batter set for 16 minutee. Drop by spoonfuls onto oiled cookie tube pan, making a marbled effect Bake at 860 for 1 hour, or until cake teats dona. Invert and cooL eheet leaving room for the cookies to spread.

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The following Passover recipe is a traditional one for our family and is usually served in the chicken soup at the first seder. However, it is also a wonderful breakfast, lunch, or supper dairy dish, with sour cream, applesauce, preserves, etc. I can say it is wonderful because it is not way recipe but my mother's, Ida Speckter, and is only one among her gifted craations. ITie instructions are a direct quote from my mother. Adeline oneMer

APPLE WALNUT KUGEL 3<R8« 1 tableepoon lemon rind 2 table^MMwe sngsr 1/4 rap lemon juice 1/2 toaepoon aalt (optional) 1/4 cap honey 8 oa. sbelled waLrats, chopped fine 2 large tart applsa Separate eggs. Whisk the ydks untO light. Add the X, lemon juice, lemon rind, salt and honey. Add the ta. Wth rotary or electik beatar, beat whttss until thqr are stiff but not diy. Peel, quarter and core apples.

SUes spplee into s 9 x 0 x 2 inch grasssd pan. Fold the whites into the yolk and nut mixture. Pour over the applee and bake In preheated oven for 30 minutee.

Th* Apple Walnut Kugel is not what most people thUlk of as a kugel—a heavy dish baaed on potatoes or matio (or noodlee during tJie rest of the year). It is a very, very light and lovely deeaert, soiftethtng like a soufflsi It is good hot, at room tenqMrature or cold.

SWEET POTATO PIE (Parve) Crust: 1 rap nutso meal 1/4 rap mdted margarine 2 tablespoons sugar 1/4 teeapoon dnnamon niUng: 1 1/2 rape cooked, maahed sweet potstoee 1/3 cup sugar 1/2 teoepoon danamon 2 egge, well beaten 1/2 rap water 1/4 rap mdted margarine 8 pecan halvee Mix crust ingredients well and press into a 8-inch pie pan. Thoroughly mix filling ingredients, except pecan halves, and pour into crust. Press pecan halves in a circle on top of pie. Bake at 400 for 46 minutes.

SWEET POTATO TZIMBfES 4 large sweet potatoee 1 pound carrota, rat In 1 Indi aUcee 1 rap whole pitted praaes 1 rap brown sngsr, fimdy packed 1 navd orange 1/2 rap melted batter or margarine.

In s large pot, cook sweet potatoes in 1 inch salted water until just tender. Drain and cool. Cut into 1/2 inch slicee. In boUing sslted water, cook carrota 10-12 ndnutea. Drain. In a waD grsased Sxpiart casserole, combine potatoee, carrots, i»runee and sugar. Stir gently to blend. Cosrsdy chop whole mange (pulp snd rind). Add to top of cass«t>le with mdted butter. Bske uncovered at 360 for 1 hour untO glaze is browned.

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FARFEL AND MUSHROOM CASSEROLE 2 rape Butso farfd 2 caps boiling water PASSOVER YELLOW ANGEL FOOD CAKE &eggi. Mpanted 1 teaspoon saK 10 egg whitee 1/4 teaspoon pepper 9 egg yolks 1 large oaioa, <Uoed 1 1/2 eupe sugar . 1/4 ponnd eUosd, freeh mushrooms 1/4 rap oU Jnioe of one lemon 2 tdrieepooBs matzo meal Jnles of 1/2 orange Soak farfd in boiling water. Dnin well. Beat egg 3/4 eap cake meal yolks; add seasonings and yolks to farfd snd mix well.

1/4 cup potato starch Beet egg whitee unto they stand hi peeks. Slowly add Brown onions and muahrooms in hot oU. Add mstzo sugar. Beat yolks untU thick, thsn add to whitee, then med and stir wdl. Add farfd mixture to akillet and mix jtticMt Slowly foU in cake mfol snd starch that has besB weU. Cook over msdium heat stirring oonstsntly for sifted together. Bake in sngsi food pan at 826 for about throe minutee. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Turn into a well greased cssesrole. Bake at 860 for 86 minutes on hour.

This makss a very light, fhlffy cake. This was my sis- or until gwden brown.

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Omaha Jewish Community VEGETABLE KUGELACH 6 taUeapooiu margarine 1/4 cap duffei graen pepper 1 cap efaoppad onkai U2 cop dM^ipad cdery 11/2 caps grated carrot ' 10 oa packi«e o( chopped apioadi, thawed 3 egga, beaten 1 112 teaapoon salt 1/8 teaqMon pepper 3/4 cup matso meal Saute green pepper, (mion, celeiy and carrot in margarine about 10 minutes, stining occaaionally. Cook spinach, drain, and combine vegetables. Add eggs, salt, pepper and matzo meal. Mix well. Spoon in 12 wellgreased large muffin tins. Bake at 360 for 46 minutes of until firm. Allow to cool 10 minutes before removing from pan. Can make ahead and freeze.

Sally Vcoger "DOCTORED" OEPILTE FISH 2 eana Old Vienna gefihe flsh (RokeadO 1 oaioa, cot up 2 carrots, sUoed 1 tablaapocB qfl adtp^per Bogar 1/2 cop Hqoid from caoa watar Bring ingredients to a boil Add fiah. fi^irinUe with paprika. Cook 11/2 houra, basting frvqontly. Cool and serve.

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PASSOVER LEMON MERINGUE PIE Croat: 3/4 cnps matso meal 1/4 cop angar daahsalt 1/4 cnp softened margarine Blend together meal, sugar and salt; add margarine and stir till wdl-blended. Press mixture firmly into bottom and sides of greased 9-inch pie plate. Bake in 360 preheated oven 12-16 minutes or until li^^tly browned.

Cod before filUng. Fining: Comi^e and set aside: 1/2 cap cold watwr 1/4 teaapoon salt 5 1/2 tablespoons potato starch Combine in top of double boiler 1 1/2 eiqis hot water 11/4 caps cold water starch ndxtve Cook ov«r direct heat until thickened; place over boiling and cook unto thidi and amooth, about 16 minutes, stirring constantly.

Beat 3 egg yolks to bland; stir a little of hot mixture into yoUcs and return to donJtde boiler; cook a few mkutes Umga. Remove frtim heat and add 1/2 cnp iaaon Jnioe and grated rind of «»e IsoMn and 1 tableapaon nurgarine. Bknd; coot sUghtty before pouring into shdL Nowesp Meringne 2 tsaapoons potato stareh, mdatsned in 2 tanapooBS eold water 1/2 cap boUing water 3aggwUtea 6 tahleapooBs sngar dashaalt Add boiling water to starch mixture and cook over low heat till thidnned, stirring cooatantfy. Cool ^rou^/Uy. Beat whites till fbanqr, gmduaUy add sugar and salt and continue beating tin mixture is stiff. GraduaiJiy beat in cooM starch mixtare and beat till mixture stands in peaks. Pile on filling. Bake in 360 oven till U^tly browned. Watch.

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MOCHA BUTTERSCOTCH SAUCE In heavy sldDet, malt 1 cnp sugar skmty over knr heat: tin medium brown and smooth. Combint 2 tabkqiooaa instant colfae with 11/2 cnpa water and slowly add to X, blending welL ~ abine 2 tsbisspoons potato starch and 3 tablespoons cold water and stir into syrup mixture. Cook, stirring till thfck. Add 2 tablespoons margarine, 1/4 tanspooB sah, 1/2 cnp chopped nnts.

Makes 1 3/4 cnps sauce. Good over sponge cake.

Frieda Elewits Iwanttoahar*aPtt»aov»mdpewithmyOn%ahanhfives and friends. I have made it for many yean (about 50 yean) for a Passover dessert It is very easy to make and now, with everyone watching their cholesterol, this is a perfect dessert for for any time, not only at Passover.

Jenaette Sherman Milder STRAWBERRY WHIP 1 pint strawbsrrlss, masbsd 1/2 cnp sugar 3 teaspowis knaon jnice 1 4gg white (room tempsratare, unbeaten) Pot aQ in^tedients in lans mixing botd. Beat until stiff and oontinus beating for 10 minutes. Put in containers and frseia. Serve with cake.

This redpe waa fai a Paaanvar inane ol tha Jewish Fkaasa number of years an. Everyone c^j«ys them. The frsaw wen and knsp wsD. ShM^y Saridn PASSOVER FRUITIBS Pnt throngh a Iood giiwlir al a food prooaaaor 1/2 cnp of any or aU of tha following: driedaptkota, avta, dataa, raiaina or eoeoant 2 tablsapsona ora^e Jnko 2 tablsapaoaa nutao nMol Mix svsrything tofsthar wall, roll bto baUs sad then into gnwnd nuts or matso meaL Rsdpe may be doubled ortriplad.

Haggadah has original passages Etitor's Note: The foUowiag story was I Aside from the estsbUshed blessings she •alMBittad by Anne and Art GToanan. I included several original passages snd interpretations as the seder progressed.

Our niece, Fern Heegsr, of Ueaaed memory, asaembled a Passover haggadah The Heegers Uvsd in Los Angeles. aeveral years ago for the clan Hasfar and Copies wore sent to family members resklGrossman. ing elaswhara Hie Heagar Haggadah was. an immediate hit and is in use each year.

According to her husband. Jack, the genesis of compiling hsr haggadah came Fern's insight to ths majestic meaning about because during previous ssdars they were using half-a-dozen versions qiread of Passover is an inspiration for our famacroas tbs fsstive table with a "script" ily as we gather to commemorate our directing which one to use, what page to anceators exodus from bondage in Egypt. turn to and at what point in the proceedFern dedkatad her life to aid childm ings. with apodal needs to the degree the Los Angeles Unified School District nsmsd s Fern selected some of the best portions playground in bar hoD(H-at one of ths spoof each seder text, typed stendls and ran dal education schools. It was furnished copies off on a mimeograph. This was in with playground equipment through contha days prior to copying machines. trfbutions to a special fund.

The Four Sons, and Four Single Men Wm~ ~^

By Marleae Adler Marks rU J*>W JMTMI (T QnmtM Urn Ai«riM )0*nrfSkt IISl, Jcwkh TtttntUt Afncy. IM.)

LOS ANGELES—A resder. Max R. from BelUlower, Calif., reeponded to one of my recent columns: "Why would an intelligent, educated, attractive lady such as yourself remain unmarried? Surely there are funny eligible man who would appredate a person such las yomall I honestly Usal that thare is no valid raason I for a person such as yourself to remain unmarried and that a parson with your qualitiea ia rather selfish for r ranuOning unmarried; you are depriving some daservLing man of a good wife.

I "My own wi& does not sgree with my views, however. hshs hss stated that if ahything happened to ms she would not remarry.

"I hope you accept thia letter in ths spirit in which it ia writtan."

I love getting letters. I enjoy the sense that there's ' a large family out there ooncamod about my well-being I and that Max and his wifs care enough to debate my future over a cnp of coffso in the kitchen.

On the other hand. Max reminds me of my Into Uncle Bemie, who at our family meals used to heap on ma Mams for every transgression of tha anti-war generation.

I mean, what is there to say? Is a single woman rsaUy "selfish" for remaining unmarried? Am I roftiaing to look hard enough for a possible mate and thoreby truly "depriving" a man of the "good wffb" h* dsssrves?

Somehow, 1 thought ccmvarsations (snd newspaper columns) like this went out with tha W-ottA stamp and ths VW bug.

Still, even ss s relic, Max's Istter touched me (I loved my Unde Bemie). Why indeed am 1 not marriod? Part of it ia choies, part luck and chemiatry, of course, but there's somftUng else, Fact is, it's taksn ms s little while, several yesrs of being akme, bofora I got to know men, or at leaat to know myself in ralationahip to tham.

What is thare to know? Msybe it's the impact of the Passoveif season, but I've come to see thst in ths single world there are ifour kinds of men (ooasparablo to the Pour ChiUran who ask ths Four QuasUaut. Thaoa Four Single Men have their own peeds, theii own quirks and

ways of coping with thiir rsality. When it cornea to tha question, 'Vfhy am I not married?', theae man evoke Four Different ReqKMisss las ths ssgas wodd say). ThQr are: Ths Divoroed Man, tha WUower, ths Never-Married Man, and the Man About Whoae Status It is Beet Not <»Ask. Stsrting over again in tha aingle world, I baUaved that men were men, that personality was infinitely maUaable, and tove (and a good tharapiat) can conquer aU. But in the last years, ss I've sat across saimtngly andUss dinnor tablao sipping sn infinite variety of dry wUte winee, ramaaco hiu loat its magio powsirs of transformation. Today, ths mystaiy is how msn and womsn bdl in love tatar in life, given all that has gone on bof^rs.

Male and female, He creatad us equally, but life expsr ienco hardsna our haarta in dlHMig wavs. *Th8 Divgrosd Msn: Gary Is a divorced man who inaisted ha was ready to start over. So. hs invited ms to dinner but soon I felt myself disappear; I ordved a (Ceatinaad to Page 68)

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Secular remembrances, religious futures

By Jo CamO Bunnoolicus wu lUbU Aiyah Azrial'a favorite Passover food when b» was a child.

Althou^ bread was not eaten during Passover, "My mother put bread hi a ipeciai place hi storage. She woidd not let UB bmy it all." ^

Rabbi AziUl'e Passovers are much different now. "I never realised how much of my rich Jewish heritage I had missed unto I came to America," he ssid.

Rabbi Axriel remembers that everything in the grocery stares was changed for Passover. AU the food was changed; it had to be koeher for Passover. "Sometimee there was a price hike on the same merdiandise to mdm it koabv for Passover," the rabU said.

TUs year Rabbi Axriel win conduct a ssder in his homA for 20 people. He's teaching his daughter, Leora, 6, the songs right now. He prondsea a lot more shiging and disrasaiott to those who sit around the table ^irith him.

Rabbi Azriel grew op in a aubub of Td Aviv, Bat Yam, with hit mother md bthor and aister, TUL Paaaover was a family gatltefing that indnded both seto of grandparento and an aunt and her diildren. The first night of Passover was caleinvted, but not tlie second.

The Passover seder was not a lengthy procedure m his home when he was a child. "We went through the Hagaddah in Hebrew. There waa not a lot of discussion.

It never lasted very long."

Man aecultr ffian obaervant

"I can remember as late as 10 a.m. on tlie morning of Pasaover healing to dig a hole in the ground to buiy tlift bread. We bmrned the top of it and then covered it with dirt," Rabbi Aariel said.

He langlis when he says the sfikoman was never hard to find ffx his parente only had a two-bedroom apartment

BunnooMqis is a pattjr made from maUo and eggs.

Hia fiatiw woold soak the matxo in water overnight and add eggs tlw next moraing. It would then be riiaped hito pcttieo and cooked, then eaten with either a pefiper sanee or a sweet sauce.

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The songs that were sung were quite different however, lliey were Sqdiardic aonga sung in Ladino, a language that is dtrived from ^jMUiish rad Hri»ew, much like Yiddish is derived from Oennan and Hebrew.

RabU Azriel believes people should qtmd some time and prepare themselves if they plan to lead a seder.

"Lode at other Jewish texts. It is a meaningful experience that shouldn't be mshed into. It should be serious and meaningful. People ahould leam thefr parto."

"My sister and I sometimes wrote poetry to be inchided in the seder," Rabbi Azrid added. "It was a warm family get-together, with wnphamw on family rather than God and religkin."

On the othor hand he advises that the sedw needs to be fresh each year. "Todiqr there are many issues that relate to Passover Freedom for the Russian Jews, South Africans, the Oulf War and Ethiopian Jews."

"Hie Passover holiday in Israel was more secular than observant. Israeli Jews ate generally in a more secular mode."

"Palestinisns shouldn't be forgotten. They need a peace settlement. A slave master relationship existe today in Israel We were slaves in Egypt, how dare we?"

In the quiet of hie Hvfaig room, RabU Aryeh Azriel teacfaea his rix-year old daughter, Leora, some of the things she needs to know for Paaeover. Leora Airiel sings a song from the haggadah her family wiU use on the first night of Paasovnr.

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At the aedsr dhmar, foods and wine are used symbolically as ths hlbUcal story of the Exodus is retold.

Redpea for foods served for the dinner and the days foUowing may be paseed from pMratkin to genaratiao. but than ia always room for nsw diahss that cany on the tradition.

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Arrange flowerettes in a vegetable ateamer. Set the ateamer in a large saucepan over 1-inch boiling salted water; steam the broccoli, partially covered, for 8-10 minutee, or until it is just tender. In a email saucepan, combine mushrooms, margarine, lemon Juice, salt and pepper. Sweat them over medium heat covered with an oiled round of wax piver and the lid, for 5-7 minutee, or until th«y are tender. In a large bowl, toaa tita broccoli with the muahrooms and the cooking liquid; add margarine, aalt md pepper to taste.

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By Jo Carroll When Rose Schupack's menuHles turn to thoughts ;iibout the Passover seder, she thinks of the color white.

V "Everything was white. The tabledoth was white. My father was dressed in white, reclining on white pillows.

The candles on the table were white."

Mrs. Schupack's father was an Orthodox rabbi who conducted the whole seder in Hebrew.

The preparations started early for Passover, with constant cleaning. "Every day thca% was another chore to be done," said Mrs. Schupack.

Windows were cleaned, rugrwere beaten, floors were scrubbed. "Mother worked feverishly to clean everything. Even my father cleaned and dusted his books with a feather duster."

The cdigregatioa would sell their bread and grain to her father, who would in turn sell it to a Gentile, for keeping until Passover was concluded.

Before Passover her parents put crumbs of bread on each window sill and then returned to each sill to bum th^ chometz.

Asp^calmomwt The seder service was long and, as a child, Mrs. Schupack couldn't wait to eat Nevertheless there was a special moment and spirit of togetherness about the seder.

Relatives, espedally cousins were always there. After the seder the children sang songs together.

At the seder, "My mother loolud like she had a shiny light on her face," Mrs. Schupack safe). "It's also the only time I ever saw her sit down. She was always working."

In the seder of her childhood, Mrs. Schupack saw her mother as the queen and her father as the king.

"Today it is different but the spirit is still meaningful."

Two weeks before the seder, Mrs. Schupack begins cleaning. She still uses the same dishes her mother used for Passover. The dishes are kept in a box in the basement.

Her food is not as rich as the food her mother cooked.

"I sldm the fat from the chidten soup as much as possible."

Mrs. Schupack still makes her own gefilte fish and matzo balls. Her children like hard matzo balls, but her late husband liked them soft, like his mother had made them.

Mrs. Schupack had made the matzo balls both ways to please everybody.

Now bar son leads the seder, using the popular Maxw^ House haggadah. It is her daughter Kim's favorite holiday.

Family come from New York, Washington, D.C. and Florida to join them for the holiday.

"My family shares in reading the haggadah. We eat too nnich, laugh a lot and end the evening by looking at fomily snapshots. The spirit of my parents continues."

It's a lot of work and preparation but someone once told her, "Whoever can run a seder, can run a city."

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In a small mixing bowl, combine meal, salt and egg substitute: mix well. Add margarine and water, stirring well. Cover and chill in the refngerator for several boors or overnight. Moisten hands in cold water; shape mixture into walnut aixad balls. Drop into gently bailing water flavored with instant chkken bouiUoo. Reduce heat, cover and simmer 46 minutes. Transfer with a dotted spoon to heated chicken 8oiq>.

NUT COOKIES 6 large eggs, separated, at room temperature 1 1/4 cops angar 3 1/2 cops finely diopped pecans Line the bottom of a 9-inch square pan with parchment paper. In a mixing bowl uaing an electtic-beater, beat egg yolks until thick, about 6 minutes. GiaduaUy add sugar, beating until thickened, about 10 minutes.

Stir in nuts. In another bowl, using dean beaters, beat egg whites until stiff but not dry, 3-6 minutes. Fold whites into nut mixture. Which will be very stiff. Spoon hito pan; apread evenly. Bake 1 hour at 326 degrees. Run sharp knife around outer edg6 of cookies. Cool 10 minutes in pan; invert onto cutting board. Remove paper. Cool completely. Cut into squares or triangles. CtiSk or store in airtight tin. <Cairtiaiied to Page W

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A simple story— but a Jewish existence ByBMtXMHa If ytn Iran • pmall Jirtriih ehild in EarptM) dating Worid War 11, dumeM an jroa don't have maiDiy Vuaovor inaniories. For that inattar, yAi probabfy doa't ncaU any hoUdqrs. TUa, bappQjr, i»iiat tlia Moty of Cantor Emfi Barkovita.

Bora in CndtoabvaUa, he waa fortimata to be a diOd in one of the fpir Icwiah famiUea who managwri to remain intact during tfaat time. "W».inn on the nm and in Udinc bat we were togethir" he taDa. "My father waaiwryreaom'ceftJandmanaiidtolMeiniaeafe.Whep one place became too dangerous, he fnud • new one— uaoally a farm."

Whan questiooed about Pasaover, he eiplaJna, "We always imew when tlie hoUdays were. We always lupt iKOsher. Mostly, we ate a vegetarian diet, but we observod the traditiao." , He told that at one time his parenta woiried about tlie absence of meat from his diet Thay Mt it was impor tant for a growing youngiter toliave meat occasionally.

His mother managed to obtain a small serving for hbD and overlooking the trefe aspect, cooked it and served it to him.

He says that even though he dUn't know it was trefe, the meat made him vitdeotly UL His folks concluded after this e^Mrience that he would manage oo his vegetarian dkt.

Not too many anecdotes oboe to mhid r«ganBng early efibrts at aedarim. Re doee, however, rscaO once when the seder was at a farm. At the praper place within the 89#», his mother sent him to qiien the door for Elijah.

Aake opened the door a goat entered, causbg Utn to adt whether that really was EUjahl Real hoUday observances came after the war and the family left their homeland. A job ofCei'for his father took them ultimately to Canada, vriiare amoee conventional Jewiah life began. Sedetim then "were kng-often they weren't over before one in the morning." The cantor daima to have fallen asleep more than once witii a mouthful of hia dinner.

...you sang In the ^nrir His parents and other family members were his constant companions as a child and, as a result, his ezpoeure to religion was generous. His father's professional status aa a cantor further emphasized Judaic practiOB in the ehild'a envircnment. He could read and daven from an early age. As for singing, he says modestly," I had a iiioe voioe and if you had a nice vnoe, you aang in the choir."

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His femHiarity of synagogue routine was ongoing. He t^ how he tutored Bar Mttsvah Btodanta from the time he waa aleveo yeata old-He waa oompletdy at home with' the material "Why notT Okb't I always hear it around me"' Emil Berkovita tells a sinqile story—he speaks softly and with humor, while always remembering the good fortune which kept hia femily together during the early 1940s. He apeaka of his eqiieriences in a low kqr faahion, especially the efibrt made by hia parents to maintain not juat an azistenoe, but a Jeidah ezisteooa.

Devoted to his worii, he proodiy notes he is a fourth generatian cantor. When admd about the time qtant on the binudt he says, "This isn't work for me. On Shabboe, for example, my singing is therapy. I k>ve what I do."

As we concluded our visit, he apologited for having 00 little to tell me about his Paasover memoriee. In truth, it was a diarming diabourae on the life of this man.

Historical circumstances made Passover memories short, true. But Emil-Berkovits' devotion to the litur gical music, ritual and prayers make him a delightful subject for interview.

When he says, "I feve what I do," he adds, "I'm a lucky man." Lucky, too, are the congregants of Beth El synagogue—his audi«ice.

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Toby Kagan remembers the new shoes When I asked Toirr Kagan for floow of bar earfy Pamover menxMiea, har first raapotue was a modaat "tb«« waan't anything qwdal about it all. We had Paaaovor, jvat liln evao'bodjr else did." Whan prassad to just talk about it, her atoty was rich and warm with deUgfatful details. This is bow she told it to me.

"When I remamber preparation for PMach many years ago. I think about sudi things as was^og the du^ tains, polishing the windows... that aort of thing. I also remeinber buying new shoes. That waa a twioe-a-year expedition, done for Pesach and Rosh Haahonah."

She recalled the exdtenwit involving the fish. "My mother sliced it, cutting out tlie meat, leaving the skin and bone to be filled in. This was, of course, real gefilte fish. And my father's job, using a hand grinder fastened to a kitchen chab- seat, was the initiafgrinding."

Toby then eyplainB how the ground fish was transfered to a special wooden bowl and thraougfaly chopped with a ^wdJal implement, a hockmeaaer. Chopped in also were the aniona and garlic

She ronembera going to "the home of Mra. Mekhes, Rabbi Feldman and years later to the meat maikatsDiamonda. ^ukata for wample, for these mtMlucta.

And III never forget the prasaration of Ue horseradish. The tears that were abed, peeUng, griniUng and fiaall^ getting it into jarsi"

his side. Mother "did not leave the table aa n^y father felt it waa the duty of the children to bring in the food, clear the table and generally take care of those chores."

She remembers how the entire seder was in Hebrew (not one sentence left out) and how "the children were expected to behave and remain quiet. I know it aounds stem, but the memories were well formed."

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She says, wistfully, "many times through the years, when the family gathered for aederim, the old memoriae were told and retold. Those were the days."

This memory triggers another... "and the beet borscbt. The cooldng, peeling and slicing of the beets, placing them in a container to fermmtTNot the most delicate of odors.) Tliis became the base of the borscbt."

Toby's final thoughts on the subject go back to the seder itself, her father conducting with her mother at

The parenta and family Toby Kagan remembera were Mendel and Vittel Hertzberg and Ida Stein, Rose Hoffman and Anne Steinberg. The eldest sibling was her brother Joe, who was married and away from the family home during the time that Toby, the youngest, tells about.

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Among her mostpt^gnsnt memories was the changing of tiie dishes. Toe Passover dishes were stored in the basement, ib boxes, barrela, etc. She tella of "relay teams, one of us giris in the basement, handing the dish'js, giasses, pots and pans up a few stairs, where another sister was perched; then the articles were handed up to the next paraoo. And the laughing, joking and commeraderie made it time to ramamber after authese years."

She fondly remembers the project of setting the seder tables. "Everyone pitched in, and the table was extoided from the dining room to the living room. This waa to accommodate the childrcD, granddiildren and great-grandchiUren."

A qiedal memory is of "the chair for my father, at the brad of the table, filled with cushions for reclining.

And the cusioDS were the hiding place for the afikoman." r Thinking back to preparing lor all the fieativities she ^aays, "Did I mention shopping for the Paasover foods?

I In thoae days there were a tew people who stodced and iapid the special it*ns such aa matw, etc"

Beginning as far back aa 1896 my uncle, then my father wrote in the back of his haggi^Udi, "Tliose presPaasover in my parents' home waa a warm, caring ent were," followed by a Ust of those gracing our bob-. occaaioD leading iq> to the first seder. Hie bouse smeUed day table: grandparenta, aunts, undea cousins, desr of thoae fomiliar Peaach foods mingling in our minds and friends.

Looking at thia date mariced in a Slavic language A hint of dunamoD combined with a|^)les wafted over, brings prMe that they chose to record life cycles and had in, and around Ute scent of chickra soup thst never the foreai^t to do so. seemed to smell the same as it did the rest of the year. • This "signing in" became part of our seder «uid an China and oystal gleamed. And beat of all, we were accounting of thoae who were bom, died, etc. I rememreunited from year to year by thia family religkxis event. ber my father adding with pride "newcomer" Adam Of oourae, aomeone made a joke about opening the Wagner, my aon of three months who sort of attended door for Elijah—usually a bad joke! Undes and aunta coo^ in Ma infant aeat Thus began his entry into the came and went. My sister and I did, too: off to school Glazer-Wagner households.

And in our uncertain wwld it gave a sense of relief or work or marriage and motherhood. Some family frienda were often more consistent idxxit their presence that "Hank Qod, Ibr letting us make it through another than mif sister and I. But we always felt we would make year." This "aigning in" legitimatized our seder.

A death or birth became "a signpost upon our door." it home if we possibly could. It was tradition to be home My husband, Bennett, continues this loving, moving for the holidays. tradition. And who knows, some day our list will have So what nuule my seder different from yours?

I used to think all seders were like mine. We took new in-law8, new friends and grandchildren. The Glazei^ turns reading, telling the familiar tale, writing in the Wagner family keeps growing, and through the years some will come, some will go. Who knows? haggadahll Yea, writing in the haggadah.

I've learned that this dd tradition was my family traThis we do know—it will be written "in the book." dition.

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Wben I kxik Iback it had to be my mother'a favorite iwliday. ' First, we started to dean the houae—thorou^y.'nM euttauu were heavy starched. Would you believe we dl oitched in and he^ied carry the wired boxed springs ^om the beds) to the back yard.

We waahsd the sioings with the garden hose; the ^oors and furniture were higlily pdii^Md and all window shades wore taken down and cleaned by hand. All the cabinets wece washed and rdined with new pupet.

Then there was the hustle to shop for the seder. Freeh beets—from the beets they made a juice called russell.

My dad, 8en Gavelich, todi fresh horseradish and grated it, the beet juice made it red; the fish wss always fresh, usually a caip, and made fresh gefilte fish. Daddy made the wine. We didn't get to taste it until we all sat down at the seder.

Mother washed the egga and I would stand and wipe eggs. Mother made, ahead of time, honey farfd candy ^whicb was hidden in the basement. Sticky but delicious.

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The table was always set with all an white tablecloth—and dishes we only saw the we^ of Passover. A big chair next to my father had a big pillow and a white imth over it That's where Dad always hid the matsah.

I loved the h<^day because we could eat in the dining raom.

When we found the.matsah we would make a wish.

I wished for a bike—sometimes for a sled—but got neither because living on busy 24th Street. 24th and U, there was no place to ride. ' After I married and had three sons, we loved going to the seder. We dressed in our finest clothes. Ifother tnd Dad put on a real show fcM-us-Mother sang aooga.

Mother took the boys and danced to Jewish reoocds in ihe living room—Dad would wash the dishes and I Woukl w^ t Every Passover I would call my folks and say I'm not ^Mfnng thb holiday; I got a dishwasher—I don't liave to change dishes—Mother would say do what you like

llda pfetore of Etta Epstein w^ing the waahed eggs was takes about 1939. The yoong man in the picture is unidentified. or do what you think is rij^t. She was plenty smart, I never gave it vq>. I try to keep it as good as she, with phawging complete set of dishes, pots, etc.

When we had to break up their home—the Uttle dish that held the red horseradish and Uie special goblet tm "Elijah" are in our breakfront and to me tliat is bettor than any Waterford ctystaL V My cakes, kugelach and dinner will never conqMre to hers—or the schmaltz QD metsah. In the early days there was little dairy food.

When all the family gets together for our modem seder, we have pleasure just discussing the hdidays and the way Bubeh and Zadeh Gavelich kept it.

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Season the roast generously with salt, pepper and garlic powdw. Roast the meat on a rack fai a baking pan in a very hot oven, 460 degrees for 16 minutes. Reduce the heat to 360 degrees and roast the meat for 20 minutes per pound (trinmted wei^t), or until a meat thermometer registers 176 degrees. Remove and discan} the foil; transfer the roast to a heated plvtter and let it stand 15 minutes. Fill the cavity of the roast with sc»ne of the broccoli and mushrooms; surround the roast with Uie remaining faoccoli and mushrooms. Serves six.

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By JOCUTCD If El^ah came to AniU MUMU'S door, he would hear Dayenu sung to the beat ai a aamba.

Today, with four married chiUm and lots of nieces and aqjiBws and grandchiMreii, she haa her wiah.

CauuUBf friends then are ofteo 20 to 24 people at her seder ui>^ Once she had 29.

Mrs. Manela. who racntiy oon^leted a visit to Omaha, Now tbst her husband is dead, her t»other-io-law leads Uyee in Rio De Orangreo. The words of the seder songs at her home would be familiar to us, bat the beat encom- the seder- H is raad in H^new and then explained in passes a Brazilian theme. the native language of BrazU, Portuguese.

Her family immigrated to Brazil from Poland in the early 1930s when life became difficult for Jews to live in Poland. Although it was hard for her parents in their new country, th«y kept their Orthodox traditions.

Mrs. Manela remembers her mother's preparations for Passover. "My mother spent one month cleaning everything. She even tack her dothes out of the wardrobe and put them in the sun to air."

Mrs. Manela said her mother cleaned out every part of the kitchen cupboards and brought out the dishes that were used only tor Passover. "She covered the tops of counters with new boards, so everything would be kosher for Passover," Mrs. Manela explained.

A Img9 huidty with phnty of p§opl0 around th§ seder table

Wh(B aha was a child at the aeder table, then w«fe onty ibar iMOiila: he^ motiicr, Regina. her father, Bar aanL har brotW nd heraaU. MtB. llaneU drauiMl of the 6ay wbm the oonid have a laiye UmBty so than wouU be plaaty of people to lau^ md afaig around the

Mrs. Mwela'B menu is typicsl of the toder menus that one would find in Omaha, with a few exertions. Just before tb^ main course a bowl of boiled potatoes is served.

She makes bar own gefilte fish, using three or four kinds of fiah, including sole. She puts it through a grinder three times, adding onion, eggs, salt and pepper. Then it is boiled in water for at least two hours and cooled to be eaten the next day.

The second course is the traditional chicken soup with knadlach (niatio balls). Mrs. Msnela said she finally learned tb^ secret of a flaky matzo ball from a Jewish cooking video: a little aeltzo*!

Her dau^ter-in-law, Dora Manela, who is on maternity leave from the ballet department at the Jewish Comnninity Ceoter, said Anita Manda is fanxHis for her charooes.

Anita Ulaitela generously told me her redpe. She grinds equ*l parta of brazil nuts, walnuts and cashews with equal Mrta of shredded red and green apfiee. To this ahe adw Manichewitz wine until the mixture is the coosiatcacf of mod.

Gueats^at Anita Manela'a aeder table are always aerved frui^ compote for deaaert. It oonsists of dried peachaa, pfuiiea, raiaina aiMi apricota that have been cookad hi water with a little sugar added.

Mra.lllaii«)a thinks the best part of any aeder is "the feeling of baiikg Jewidx."

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the Divorced Mao, the NeverManied Man and the Man About WhoM Status It is Best Not to Ask, has the greateot diance of loving foQy, otwe he heals. But unUke the Divorced Man, he wanta exactly what he had before, down to the color nail poUah-tfae saintty Wife Who Died. He naeds to recognise that he is part of a community of tragedy, and that life has gone on.

The Widower needs to be tcdd, it is because of my own memories that I cannot get manied yet. Becauae of my memories, not because of you.

Tba Never-Married Man: The Never-Married Man knows all the reasons why his friends relationships failed. He says he hss not met "the right giri yet" and asks the afai^ woman, "Who ate you?" as if being single is hsr fault, and he was Ood's ^ come to save her.

George, never married, likes to teO women on a first date w^iat's the matter with them. "Remember." lie told me, "Angeb can fly because they take themselvea lightly."

To the Never-Married Man you must say, it is becrase of what the Eternal did for me that I was spared love with a man who bdieves in his own deity.

nhe Man About Whose Status It is Beet Not to Ask: Of the 10 plagues that afflict the Shigle Woman, MIing for a Man About Whoae Status It is Best Not to Adc is one of the greateet He mi^r be married, pretending to be ain^ or in any event the victim of a shrewiah, insensitive woman hdw will not let him g(4. He may be divorced but still in k>ve with his ex-wife (or his mother). Lenny liyee in a trailer behind the house where his ex-wife and hw new fausbend live with Lenny's daughter. Such a man will never make a new commitment, but loves to be in love. Hell pull the rug out from under you.

To him you must say, if I never meet another Man About Whoee Status It is Best Not to Ask as long as I live, dayenu.

Of course, there are Four Single Women, too, but Max didn't ask about them.

Marime Adler Marks is managing editor and a columnist at The Jewish Journal in Los Angeles, where this article first appeared.

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NEW YORK-As world Jewry begfau the observance of Paaoovar, it is virtually inevitable that the trauma of Saddam HtiBSsin and the Pwrian Gulf war will impoev them^aivea on this year'a feetivaL The paraOab between the Pharaoh of the Exodus and Saddam Hnsaain will be poignant and telHng. Pharaoh perceived Unaelf as a god. the source of all law, but never the aarvant of law. In his megalomania, Saddam Huaaein saw himself as a latter-dqr Nebachad&ssaar who could bestride bis Middls East universe with impuni^.

Pharaoh sought to enslave ths laraelitea, and infUcted cruel puniahment on our anceatora through enforced boodaga. After starting an eight-year4ang war with Iran |hat resulted in more than a million deiiha, inv(dving ' 1 warftn against innocent Kurds, Saddam Hua-

seiB threataoed with his Scud missiles to "bum half of andita allies makes the 10 (dsguee on Egypt appear alIBTML" most more symbolic than apocalyptic One of the miqor pedagogical purposes for reenscting Pharaoh's ruthkssness was rewarded by the 10 plaguaa whidi brought Us powerful natioo to utter deso- the seder ritual aadi year is to iSnd consolation in the lation. Saddam Huaaein alao miaeakulated and was af- journey from terrible bondage to iiltimate liberation and flkted by the high-tach phiguss of Operation Desert freedom.

The Maharal of Prague expressed it in these wratls: Storm, which hss tragical brought ruination and vast destiactiao to his nation and its people.

"The seder ritual prepares a design for the coming Ihe Midrash observes that each of the plaguee redemption, for each Peeach repeafii the experience of repreeented punishment for the particular wrongs that the firat one and fbreshsdows Mchsuoeeoding one un-' the Egyptians did to the Jews: "Th^ ipade them til the final dimactic redempti<m."

For Israel end its Jewish brothers and sisters throu^, drawers of water, and so their river was tamed to Uood ... they sought to keep the Jews OS prisoners, snd were out the worid. Psssover 1991 will be a unique time for themselves shackled by the thick darkness that CBU upon wanting to experiente this ddest Jewish festival as Egypt." and so OIL "s'man herutenu," the season of our fireedom bma the .

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"A lot o( poopia can wanting to kaoir how to maka: matio. We tell thm it's impoaaible to maka at home becauae it requitee an oven temperatore of 850 to 1000 degreea. We refer them to Baker's."

The library has hundreds of Jewish cooUMoks, aome exclusively for Passover, but neariy all contain some tedpea for Paasover. There are daliy cookbooks, ddiyfree cookbooks, vegetarian cookbooks, low-fat or lowsalt cookbooks, Itidian Jewish cookbooks and microwave bodes that still let you cock traditional Jewish foods. And to my surprise, even a Koahtr Cijun Cookbook.

Give your seder an mtique touch If you have the art of seder cooking down pat, there are rtiU interesting items in the library for you to k>ok at. There is every land of haggadsh you could possibly imagine, There are '"ffg*^**" ranging from onea with large iOuatratiooa and limited text to minisciile iQuatratkoa and boontiee <rf text

TlMBe are repUeaa of hagaddaha from the 16th century that might intereat yon if you want to tfhre your aeder that antiqae tooch.

One haggadah, printed in liNSS by the United Charity Institutians ttf Jerusalem, ahows picturee of chiMrea in orphanages. Another is a hag^tdah used by the Armed Forces.

The shortest haggadah is probably one entitled "My First Seder" by Katherine James ^ahn. The entire text is as foUows: "lif^t, drink, wash, dip, hide, ask, ^ng, eat, good night." I guess you can't get much simpler than that.

There are videos on Passover if you're tired of reading about it. One video is an animated cobr cartoon with figures made of clay and seen through the eyes of a 12yearold boy.

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I met Libby, of blessed memory, whan we moved into an apartment baikKng. At that time she was in her late 70's—however, age never daunted her, she was young at heart. She top, was a constant knitter, making lap robes for reaidenta at the Dr. Sher Home, and ahe was a fentaatic baker. She was always making packages of goodiea to bring to someone who was iU; to take to a home of bereavement; to remember someone's birthday or anniversary.

She also had the humorous diy wit <rf a stand^q) comedian! Examine: Marriage is Wu a pot, if the lid fits, you're lucky. living in the same buikhng with libby waa a constant adventure. When ahe fractured bet idp and was in a nursing home, we went to visit her. She greeted us with, "Get me out of here. This place is full of old people!"

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At the time of the'76 tornado, I rushed into her apartment and sakl. "Libby, it'a time to take cover."

She replied, "Can't you aee I'm in the middle of baking. When I'm doae, IH oooii to the baaement" She did, with a plate full of goodies for an to noah, just moments before the roar of a thouaand frrigfat trains was heard overhead.

Libby ahared many of bar wonderful recipes with me.

I wish I could share her Paaaover matzo ball recipe with you. I can't. She didn't have a recipe. She said you can tell by the feel and sound of the fai4 when you are beating it. They were ligfat like a feather and most flav(x«full However, I can duure ho' matso-apple kugd redpd with yoB and abew^uld Uy, "Follow my directions and

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