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The Ubiquitous
'Aruchat Eser'
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DIANE SCHAEFER SPECIAL TO THE APPLETREE
arents in America
aruchat eser is an integral part of
may tear their hair
the child's education, with chil-
out trying to think of
dren being taught from an early
what to put in their
age to wash, say Hamotzi and
children's lunch boxes, but par-
Grace After Meals.
ents in Israel are faced with an
The basic requirement is a
additional challenge: aruchat
sandwich, drink and possibly
eser, literally translated as the
fruit, but every child has his or
"10 o'clock meal."
her preference. Hadas, 10, says
The lavish Israeli breakfast
that in the winter she likes to
served in all classes of hotels,
take an orange and a sandwich
complete with 10
filled with
types of cream
9
percent
Yehudah's
cheese, three
Mini-Pita Pocket
kinds of eggs
Pizzas:
and a large vari-
1) Open the pita by slic-
ety of vegetable
ing through the edge of
and fruit But
the pocket with
aruchat eser (pro-
a sharp knife.
nounced a-roo-
2) Spread the in-
chat es-er) is
side with ketchup
probably more fa-
or tomato paste.
miliar to most of
white cheese
the natives. It is an
3) Place yellow
— the Israeli
cheese inside.
institution that has
version of cream
permeated many
cheese.
Her
4) Toast in the
segments of the
toaster oven until the brother, Ishai, 12,
working world and
cheese is melted.
also likes to take
all segments of the
an orange and
5) Enjoy!
school system.
white-cheese sand-
For parents and
wich, but likes olives on
their school-aged children,
the cheese.
aruchat eser is a serious matter.
When Yehudah, 4, started
For parents, it is a chance to
chederlast year, his mother sent
supplement a breakfast that
along peanut butter-and-jelly
might consist of a few cookies
sandwiches and an apple —
eaten on the way out the front
like any normal, American-born
door. Or, though schools active-
mother. The jelly was soon
ly encourage parents to feed
deleted from the sandwich at
their children breakfast, aruchat
Yehudah's request, and all was
eser often replaces breakfast al-
fine for several months. Then
together. In religious schools,
one day, Yehudah refused to eat
peanut butter in public. The rea-
son: His table mates, good Is-
raelis all, said it looked yichksa.
He switched to white-cheese
sandwiches, or his all-time fa-
vorite, mini-pita pocket pizzas,
until one day during the new
school year. Then, the refrigera-
tor nearly empty, his mother
snuck a peanut butter-and-jelly
(strawberry only) sandwich into
his backpack. He ate the whole
sandwich and has
been taking
peanut
0.0
butter-and-
jelly ever since.
Some mothers
prefer to send
plain water
in a miner-
al water
(bottle, while oth-
ers send pete4 the Is-
raeli version of Kool Aid.
Sara, the mother of 11, uses
fresh rolls for her children's
sandwiches on Rosh Chodesh
(the New Moon). Naomi, the
mother of four, likes to give her
children sandwiches filled with
chocolate spread — considered
by many Israeli parents to be a
real food — as a special Rosh
Chodesh treat
Aruchat eser continues
through high school, unless the
school has a kiosk on the
premises. And, as the children
are older, they often pack two or
three sandwiches, saving some
of them for lunch.
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Diane Schaefer lives with her husband, Akiva, in Neve Yaakov Mizrach. When not caring for her two
small children, Mts. Schaefer works with computers at an international company based in Jerusalem.