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DEAN JARED SALLAN

Tradition With A
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though, I don't see ,much to com-
find a number of things in life
plain about.
depressing.
First of all, we have Purim, and
There's the fact that Taco Bell
really,
what could be better than
isn't kosher, for example, although I
seeing all those children in cos-
guess it would be worse if it were
tumes, going from home to home as
because then I'd eat there all the
they deliver shalach manot in their
time and I'd balloon up to the size
wagons?
We've got Sukkot, too,
of the Empire State Building.
and there's nothing I love like sitting
Certain talk-show hosts really get
in the sukkah (ours is covered from
on my nerves, as do some female
top to bottom with whimsical lights
singers (they're all the rage now)
my husband search-=-- ;
who think they're
es for the whole
being really deep
year)
on a crisp fall
with their inane
day, drinking cider
song lyrics about
and
eating challah
God being "a
with honey. On
slob like one of
Shabbat, my chil-
us."
dren do puzzles
Then there are
and
we all go to
moments of living
the park. What, I
that are just so
ask
you, could be
indescribably deli-
more fun than that?
cious you want to
It's not that I see
stand up and sing,
celebrating and
even when you
merriment as the
don't have a very
only aspects of
good voice, a cat
egory into which I. My Yitzhak, all dressed up and Judaism. Of course
not. But in my daily •
happy for Shabbat.
certainly fall. For
living I try to show
me, these include
my children that leading a Jewish
my children% many drawings of
life
is not only important, it's fun,
smiling faces atop neckless bodies
too.
It's not that we can't eat a ham
that say "I love Mommy," and pack-
sandwich, it's that we do have this
ages, filled with lipsticks and
tasty stuff called cholent each
antique cards and books, from my
Shabbat. It's not that we don't cele-
mother.
brate Christmas, it's that we do get
Another wonderful aspect of my
to stay up really late and wave
life is being Jewish.
flags on Simhat Torah.
A woman recently approached
No wonder so many children are
me and said, "What I like about
L
disinterested,
at best, in Hebrew
your writing is that you always
school or going to synagogue. If
make it sound fun to be Jewish."
parents make it seem like being
"It is fun," I said.
Jewish is a burden, how else can
"Well, so many people today
their children react?
seem to think it's a burden," she
So maybe I won't be eating at
told me.
Taco
Bell. When a candy bar as
Okay, the fast days are not
tasty as Fifth Avenue is kosher, life is
among my favorites, and I don't like
still
very, very good.
having to miss "America's Most

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Elizabeth Applebaum
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