like all other seders — a re-
counting of the Exodus of the Is-
raelites from Egypt. Alicia
Nelson, the rebbetzin of Beth
Shalom, was one of four leaders,
although the reading was shared
among the five tables.
Michele Goldstein, who ac-
companied her mother, Mar-
garet Eichner, found the
Haggadah "interesting."
"I think we'll incorporate it
into our Haggadah," she said,
noting that her father appends
articles, poems and the like to

Miriam Sang

Congregation Beth Shalom's second women's
seder drew on the strength of the other half of
the Jewish people.

JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER

W

by was the seder at the
Jewish Community
Center last week dif-
ferent from other

12 children and raised most of
them alone after the death of her
husband.
Beyond that, the seder was

seders?
Plates laden with oranges
sat alongside seder plates on
five long tables.
The 175 guests were ex-
clusively female — mothers,
grandmothers, and grand-
daughters.
The Haggadah text,
drawn from various sources
and put together by the Sis-
terhood of Congregation
Beth Shalom, featured the
stories of four extraordinary
Jewish women and their
contributions to Jewish his-
tory: Deborah, the judge and
prophetess; Beruriah, the
scholar; Hannah Senesch,
Zionist and would-be res-
cuer of Hungarian Jews;
and Gluckel of Hamlen, a
wife and mother who bore

Above: Four generations of women showed up at the Sisterhood of Beth Shalom's seder:
rear, from left, Orly Benaderet, her mother Susan Benaderet and Judy Goldsmith; and
front, from left, Shirley Broder, Molly Goldsmith and Fanny Greenbaum.

Left: Rachel Barth, 6, pours grape juice for her cousin, Charlotte Alster, also 6.
Charlotte's mom, Ellen, looks on.

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