accustomea toms of me year seder is *becoming more and By IVIEIR C.H.A.KINIAli (Copyright, 1960, Jewish Telegraphic which have, or conceivably r ore popular than it ever was :: Agency, Inc.) could have, traces of leaven i n modern American commun- Herman 'Wouk's best-seller are on sale in unleavened i ty life. Once, when the "lost" , on the Jewish religion, This preparations." € veneration, ' the Jews of the Is My God," tells us that Pass- This observation comes after 1 9305 who 'broke away from over has become a holiday easy a discussion of matzo, the t heir Judaic past, thought in to 'Observe. The ' food restric- “bread of affliction." Which t erms of a Seder, it was a tons have .just about vanished leads us to a second thought: c ornmunal affair —• one which because, as Wouk reminds us, the commercialization of Pass- t he local rabbi could handle "a major industry of Passover over foods, while no doubt a 1 or them. They, themselves, products exists. Ndarly. all the good business (and lauded by ( l idn't know how to "run" one Mr. Wouk who likes to show us c f "those things." It was easy, Season's Greetings how easy It is to observe Jew- t hen, to get together in the ish customs consistently), some- hul, with a catered Seder, and • how denigrates the holiday. 1 vith the rabbi explaining each KAY DANZER There is no longer any room ct. Now, Rabbi Gordon tells Flowers - Gifts ' for sacrifice, for feeling that 1 is, 75 to 80 per cent of Jewish Shops in Sheraton Cadillac Hotel you are giving something up ... 1 amilies in suburbia conduct Statler Hotel In Rabbi Albert I. Gordon's r attend Sedorim. One of the Park Shelton Hotel controversial "Jews in Suburbia" reasons given is: WOodward 1-1992 • we discover that the home "Passover is so important to us because the Hebrew school and Sunday schools spend so much of their time teaching Happy Holiday Greetings o ur children how to observe the r itual of this festival. 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