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ave you ever
thought
about what
Israelis say
when they get to the
part in the Haggadah
that reads, "Next year in
Jerusalem?"
I knew it wasn't,
"Next year in
Southfield," where I
have enjoyed the last 64
seders (two a year) in my Steffie Dorfm an enjoys kosher for Passover pizza in
parents' home. I found
Jerusalem.
this among the questions
The day of the seder, mostly
I pondered as my hus-
everyone seemed to be bustling out-
band and I took our two younger
doors, shopping, hurrying, carrying
children to spend Passover in Israel
with their sister who has been living
packages and flowers. We were
greeted everywhere with chag samay-
in Jerusalem.
The experience was everything we
ach (happy holiday), by waiters, TV
stations, signs in stores and on the
expected it to be, as well as nothing
expressway. And if you think there
like we could have imagined.
Arriving the day before the seder,
was a lot of traffic on Maple and
Orchard Lake roads that evening,
we witnessed the entire city of
you should have seen the cars mak-
Jerusalem preparing for the holiday.
ing their way toward Jerusalem in
Restaurants were closed, while
the hours before the seder.
employees carried boxes of dishes to
By 4 p.m., though, the city sud-
and from storage rooms, unpacked
denly shut down. The buses stopped
Passover menus and baked their ovens
running and the people disappeared
clean with blow torches.
into their homes to prepare. For us,
A perfumed scent mingled with the
this meant moving into the
home of one of our Israeli
cousins.
Meal preparations in our
family's households ranged
from cooking a turkey with
matzah stuffing by my
American-born cousin, to rice
and beans by her Sephardic
relatives, to the Moroccan tra-
ThePassover menu at Ben-Yehudah Street's
ditions of her in-laws, which
Burger King.
included taking both a live
sheep and someone to slaugh-
ter it into their home.
city air, as outdoor florists stayed open
We attended seder with the same
all night. And on the streets, children
family members with whom I spent
carried cobalt blue and turquoise pea-
Passover as a child, before they made
cock feathers to be used for Passover
cleaning, while stands were set up for
aliyah many years ago. I sat with my
American-born relatives and their
selling chametz before the holiday
started.
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