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On This Night We Have The 24th
Annual Congregation Beth Shalom
...Family Second Seder...

Perfect For Pesach

A look at some new books out just in time for the holiday.

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for what has become
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Minchah services begin at 6:00 p.m.

The Seder starts at 7:00 p.m. with

dinner served at 8:00 p.m.

The seder will be conducted in Hebrew

and English. Rabbi David Nelson,
Cantor Samuel Greenbaum and

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child and her grandmoth- Eda. "(Mama) says they fell in for more than 25 books.
er are preparing for Pe- love the very first time Uncle
New for older children is Dear
sach. Their talk begins Harry sawed Eda in half"
Elijah (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
with a discussion of mor-
Just before the seder starts, by Miriam Bat-Ami, associate
tar, which "binds things togeth- Uncle Harry manages to find professor of children's literature
er." It ends with a conversation Sara's lost barrette and little at Western Michigan University
about knives.
Max's missing tie. He even pulls and a resident of Kalamazoo.
David Mamet's Passover (St. flowers out of the air for Grand-
Dear Elijahis the story of 12-
Martin's Press), with illustrations ma. And his trick with the Pesach year-old Rebecca, whose father is
by Michael McCurdy, is a short meal: "Once it's on the table, it terribly ill. As Pesach approach-
work about an immigrant who,
disappears."
es, Rebecca wonders if her father
as she prepares for the
RNS PFIOTO/RICHARD NOWITZ can come home for the
holiday, tells her grand-
holiday — if ever. In
daughter the story of the
her search for answers,
Jewish people — and
she turns to Elijah, the
eventually of her own
prophet.
grandmother and her re-
At first, Rebecca
markable actions one
writes letters about
Pesach.
boys and clothes and
The little girl put a
teachers. But soon her
clove on the chopping
musings take a twist as
block and cut it. The
she considers her own
room filled with the
life and religious tradi-
smell.
tions, especially her fa-
"I think dates remind
ther's commitment to
me more of the desert,"
Judaism. She wonders,
she said.
"Can I live up to his
"I think so, too," the
standards?"
woman said.
Oh, E., being Jewish,
"If we had them, we
E., its like a whole peo-
could put them in."
ple being stitched to-
"Of course."
gether. With the
"You said that this
threads holding. And
wasn't the same knife,"
there are tons of things
the girl said.
I don't know. Like what
"No. That knife was
if the whole world could
lost."
stitch itself together? All
A Yemenite family at a seder on a moshav in Israel.
"Would you tell me
the races? What if the
about it?"
Ms. Schotter also is the author dead could come back to life?
"...My grandmother," the ofA Fruit and Vegetable Man and What if the bad could become
woman said, "had come back to Hanukkah, which features wa- good and there was no hunger?..
their house on Erev Pesach. You tercolor illustrations by Ms.
What ifI don't ever marry, and
see?"
Hafner.
I don't have a family, and I am
"...she'd come back.."
Young children can follow the very old? All by myself at the seder
"That's right. In the shtetl."
further chronicles of Sammy Spi- table. Would you come to me then,
"..she'd gone to the market."
der in Sammy Spider's First Elijah? When. I opened the door,
"That's right. She had gone to Passover (Kar-Ben Copies, Inc.) would you come?
the market. And she heard there by Sylvia Rouss.
ll your neighbors are
that there was going to be an at-
cleaning and shopping and
Sammy, who made his debut
tack..."
organizing and planning
in Sammy Spider's First
"A pogrom," the child said.
Hanukkah, is sleeping peaceful-
and you, my friend, are sit-'
Mr. Mamet is a playwright ly one spring afternoon when he ting in front of the TV watching
and author who received the wakes with a start and tells his yet another talk show on cross-
Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen mother, "a monster has broken dressing space aliens in love with
Ross.
our web."
their mothers-in-law?
agic is in the air and
Slovenly housekeepers would
You can't avoid it any longer:
matzah is on the table. no doubt agree. The monster is it's time to get ready for Pesach.
What else could it be but merely a broom, and the Shapiro And here's just the thing to get
Pesach?
family is getting ready for Pesach. you organized.
In Passover Magic (Little,
Sammy's mother quickly goes
Keeping Passover (Harper
Brown), author Roni Schotter about building a new web, but San Francisco) by Ira Steingroot
and illustrator Marylin Hafner Sammy hardly notices. He's too offers "everything you need to
tell the story of one family's hol- interested in the Shapiro seder.
know to bring the ancient tradi-
iday preparations and celebra-
His mother admonishes, "Spi- tion to life and to create your own
tions.
ders don't celebrate Passover," so Passover celebration."
First comes the cleaning. Then Sammy gets to work on a new
The book begins with the ba-
comes the relatives. Then comes web. Then he finds he does in fact sics, (the first chapter asks, "Why
the chicken soup, "and soon the have an important role at the Do We Celebrate Passover?") and
house is sweet with the smell of Shapiro seder.
covers such topics as songs for the
Passover."
Sammy Spider's First Passover seder, various Haggadot, chil-
Among the guests is Uncle also features colorful cut paper il- dren's books and toys for Pesach,
Harry, a dentist and magician lustrations by Katherine Janus what exactly needs to be on the
who married his former assistant,
Kahn, who has produced artwork seder table, and directions on how

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