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The fun of Shavuot: cheesecake,
our special . relationship with God

Photos by Alex Lumelsky

Elizabeth Applebaum
AppleTree Editor

ESTI MANDEL-
BAUM, 9, of
Oak Park
"We have a
special meal .
with cream
cheese and dif-
ferent kinds of
cheese."

LIEBA ROTH-
! STEIN, 8 1 /2 , of
Oak Park
MALKA CARMEN, 9, of Southfield
"On Shavuot we eat milchigs [dairy I "Shavuot is
when we get
foods], and I
the Torah, and
I like milchigs
if we didn't get
I better than
the Torah then
I fleishigs. But I
we wouldn't be
don't like
Jewish, and HaShem wouldn't be
cheesecake.
on our side. And I like blintzes and
Yuck. In class,
cheesecake. My mom makes them
we made S'firat
and she's a good cook. My sister is
hoOmeijcotint-
ing the Omer]
charts with stick6i-s."

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!MINDY LUSS, 9, of Oak Park
"My brother stays up all night learn-
ing, but I don't.
On Shavuot,
we get cheese-
cake and it's
delicious. We
have plain and
chocolate-mar-
ble cheese-
cake."

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NECHAMA
a good cook, too. On Shavuot, my
-TAWIL, 8, of
Bubbie comes over and she brings
Oak Park
flowers and puts them on the table.
"In first grade
My mother makes a Har Sinai (Mt.
we made cup-
Sinai) cake that's chocolate and it
cakes that were
has green frosting with flowers."
Har Sinai. No,
(Editor's note: Mt. Sinai was cov-
we didn't save
ered with lush greenery at the time
them! We ate
of the giving of the Torah, which is
why it traditional to fill one's home I them! And on Shavuot you stay up
[learning] all night. My brothers do it
with flowers on Shavuot.)
and soon I will, too."
DEVORAH LEVIN, 9, of Southfield
MERA MOSKOWITZ, 81/2, of
"On Shavuot we have milchigs,
Oak Park
and I like cheese blintzes and
"On Shavuot,
cheesecake.
we got the Torah
My mother and
and if we didn't
sister cook
get that we
them. Also, we
wouldn't be
decorate our
Jews and
house with flow-
HaShem would-
ers and it looks
!
nit
be on our
pretty; like Har
side. On
Sinai."
Shavuot, we go
to my Bubbie's house on the corner.
She% a good cook."

Children in Tzipora Moller's third-grade class at the Sally Allan Alexander Beth Jacob School for Girls in Oak Park talk about Shavuot
— and it's really cheesy. (With special thanks to Lower School Principal Goldie Silverstein)

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