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LYNNE MEREDITH COHN ST

BILL HANSEN PHOTOGRAPHER

Above: Slavery is endured by
Chelsea Foster, Emily Durinon
and Megan Justice.

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ongregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park
has hosted model seders for congre-
gants' children for a dozen years, but
this year's seder had a twist.
On Sunday, April
6, the kindergarten
Right:
through third grades re- A "commercial
enacted the Jews' Exodus
break" is
from Egypt.
helped along by
Rhonda
Parents lined up on two sides of
Pliskow,
the hallway and waved blue cloth
to represent the Red Sea. The chit- Shelley Littman
and Jos h
• dren, divided into the 12 tribes of
Kannon.
Israel, marched in, singing and
carrying banners representing the Shelley Littman
ci) names and symbols of the tribes. does her part in
•
In the main sanctuary, each the officiating.
class acted out different parts of
- the seder on the bimah. Parents
o and students also made the rounds of stations,
= where they could make seder items such as kid-
dusk cups and matzah covers and learn the ap-
CD
propriate brachot from Rabbi David Nelson and
Cantor Samuel Greenbaum.
On Sunday, April 13, Beth Shalom's grades
four through seven participated in their model
seder.

Above: Sophia Orbach, 7, and her mom, Linda, work on a seder
cup together.