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This dipping in moderate doses
Is sane, say in chrain* or charoses**
And zaltz vasser's*** fine
But spilling good wine
I think borderlines on neurosis!

ver 30 years ago, my mother Ceil Liebman
ended a discussion with her siblings over
who should make the Passover seders by
offering, "Why don't you all come here?"
Back then, "you all" meant a mere seven out-of-
towners joining our family of six, with minimal sleep-
ing arrangements needed to accommodate everyone.
Now the eating area has evolved into a table for 34,
with the dining room expanded just for Passover use.
An unusual part of the holiday at my parents'
Southfield home is that most of those who come for
the seders also sleep over. It's a given that my aunts
and uncles from Toronto and Boston will stay there,
but so do the relatives who live in Southfield,
Farmington Hills and West Bloomfield.
College students come home and married children
bring their spouses, with pardons given only to those
spending Pesach in Israel with my mother's sister
Shane and her family.
For the youngsters of the third generation, Passover is
a huge, extended pajama party. For the first and second,
this is a rare chance to partake in a 48-hour marathon
visit. Sleeping bags and sleeping children can be stepped
over at any point during the nighttime and morning
hours. But in the kitchen, until 3, 4 or even 5 a.m., a
sound can be heard that our family has come to term
"the cackle." It is the laughter that began with my moth-
er and her sisters, and has passed down through my gen-
eration to the next.
For weeks in advance of the first seder, food is pre-
pared in the Passover kitchen in my parents' basement.
Word is, my mother is the maker of the 100 matza
balls, 100 Passover rolls and seven meals we all will
share over the course of a normal two-day Passover
beginning. But we never see her cook, she never talks
about it and, most amazingly, we're not allowed to
help in the kitchen!
If you see my mother in the weeks before, during
and after Passover, it may flash through your mind,
"Oh, there's the woman with 10 dozen eggs in her
fridge, or 180 bottles of Coke in her garage." But you
should be thinking how wonderful it is that she and
her family take the concept of being together for the
holiday one step further. 0

— Shelli Liebman Dorfman, Staff Writer

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— Martha Jo Fleischmann

* horseradish
** chopped nuts and apples, cinnamon and wine
served at Passover to symbolize mortar
*** salt water

"The only thing two Jews can agree
on is what the third should give."

— Actor Leonard Nimoy, repeating a
joke told to him by violinist Isaac
Stern. Nimoy was addressing the
Associated: Jewish Community
Federation of Baltimore.

"We're certainly not doing any-
thing in order to offend anyone.
We didn't think of it as a kosher
Leonard Nimoy, "Mr. Spock" neighborhood."

— Liz Thompson, co-owner of The
Pig, a pork barbecue restaurant
about to open within the Orthodox enclave of Los Angeles' Hancock
Park, and a few yards from a yeshiva.

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By Goldfein

n Purim several weeks ago, we read about Queen Esther.
During Chanuka, we read and sing about Judah Maccabee.
But in looking through the Passover Haggada, it is doubtful
that one can find the name of the Exodus story's hero. Who was he?

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ANP MORE PEOPLE ARE
HAVING THEIR SEDERS AT
EXOTIC LOCATIONS WHERE
RESORTS ARE
SERVING KOSHER
FOR PASSOVER FOOD!

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THAT Poesky-r MEAN WHO

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HOW WE'RE
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WANTS TO
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WITH THE
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