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Choose from our large selection of brass, silver and ceramic menorahs; dreidels, collectible judaica and com- missioned works of art. Call: E'THEL HOFMAN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS n the first night of the only country where "bigger is Chanukah, imagine hav- better," you're mistaken. Glicks ing a cookout in 80-degree has us beat. Arranged symetri- sunshine, then at 10 p.m. cally behind sparkling glass pan- when darkness has fallen, light- els, there are 6-inch wide Pumpkin Latkes; Tuscan Pump- ing the Chanukah candles. If you're part of the 38,000- kin Involtini like giant Danish member Jewish community of pastries drip with sweet pump- Melbourne, Australia, that's ex- kin filling; vegetable-stuffed actly how you will observe the turnovers aptly labeled Family eight-day holiday that celebrates Pasty; Pizza Filo Scrolls, and suf- the miracle of the one-day supply ganiot thickly slathered with chocolate and white frosting are of oil burning for eight. For Chanukah, Jewish fami- double the size you would see in lies in the suburb of Caulfield any local doughnut shop. Pump- have worked out a brilliant strat- kin, used extensively in Aus- egy to keep children amused and tralian cooking, is not our parents relaxed before candle- Halloween-type pumpkin, which lighting time. (Caulfield is nick- is too watery and stringy, but a named the Borscht Belt because blue-skinned Windsor. Butternut of the 350 Jewish families who squash, tan on the outside and live there.) The celebration be- gins with a "Sausage Sizzle" in the park or, if it's raining, in the social hall of the Mizrachi Syna- gogue, one of more than 20 Mel- bourne synagogue's supported by a dynamic Jewish community. "It's tough to try and keep the lit- tle ones awake long enough to light the candles," says Sonja Slonim, 34, who came to Mel- bourne from the En Hodarea in Israel two years ago, but she adds with a huge smile, "This works." deep orange inside, is a satisfac- What's a Sausage Sizzle? Ms. tory substitute. "Mendel is a legend — there's Slonim explains, "It's really an American-type barbecue only we none like him" insists a satisfied use sausages — kosher, of course customer as he hurries in to pick — instead of hambiirgers and hot up lunch. The chief baker and dogs. Everybody brings his fa- boss is a Polish immigrant, vorite salad or dessert and the Mendel Glick, in the business for 25 years. "It wasn't always like children play games." It's the norm for families here this," smiles daughter Penina, 34, to have 10 or more children. It's glancing over baskets brimming also normal and a necessity for with assorted bagels and cakes most women, including the mod- and the incredible variety of fresh ern Orthodox, to work outside the salads displayed in sparkling home. Leisure is precious. If glass-fronted cases. "He saved up there's no time to cook, what to buy the first little shop, which was just a storefront." Penina, then? As we often do, "take-away" is who is the middle child of nine the Australian answer. "We line siblings, proudly announces "Our up at Glicks," answers a 30-ish baked goods are a Melbourne tra- mother wheeling a buggy with dition." Mother of five, she comes a baby and a couple of toddlers in to work in the store "for a break." Glicks also is famous for its tow. Glicks, the local kosher bak- ery-delicatessen par excellence, prepared foods. Besides the tra- has built up a citywide reputa- ditional Chanukah latkes and tion so that on a Friday after- _doughnuts, an array of salads, noon, non-Jews as well as Jews enhanced with nut oils, are fresh, pack three deep into the store to bright, and absolutely delicious. buy the shiny-crusted challahs, Favorites were Roast Potato and hot from the oven. Indeed, the Sun-dried Tomatoes, Broad Bean bakery and delicatessen challahs, Salad with fresh dill and al- monds, (we used butter or lima hot from the oven. Pumpkin and coriander trans- beans), Vegetable Curry Salad, form the traditional European Pasta with Crisp Fried Onions, latke into a uniquely Australian but there were more than a dozen Jewish dish. National goodies others equally tempting. In this such as feather-light Lamingtons hemisphere, it's definitely not (coconut-covered sponge cake weather for an outdoor "Sausage squares) are a popular snack. 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