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To the community I am proud
to represent in Congress and to
our friends in Israel!

May this new year bring peace
freedom and hope.

Ideas to help your
family celebrate
the holiday.

Congressman Joe
and Sandie Knallenberg

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• As we begin a new year, it's nice to
put our past problems, sadness and
pains behind us — and look ahead
to a brighter future.
Have young children make glasses
out of cardboard or construction
paper. Then tell them, "You're about
to look at the world in a whole, new
way." Ask them to put on the glasses
and tell you what they see.

• This year marks the 100th
anniversary of the teddy bear. It all
got started, of course, when
President Teddy Roosevelt refused to
shoot a bear during a hunting trip.
Shortly afterward, Jewish toymak-
er Morris Michtom began making
stuffed bears he called teddies. In
honor of this occasion, why not
draw teddy bear place cards to set
on the holiday table?

• Make an envelope book filled with
hope. Simply tape or staple envelope
bottoms together. If you like, you
can make a nice cover for the com-
pleted collection. Then, place inside
each envelope a goal for that month.
In November, for example, you
might make a pledge to give
tzedakah every day. Or in April, you
may want to begin attending servic-
es regularly at your synagogue or
temple. At the beginning of each
month, open the envelope and get
working.

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• Expand your Rosh Hashanah
menu (and teach your children a lit-
tle Jewish biography along the way).
Include a dish that is completely
new to them, such as, perhaps, the
following recipe for Fried
Mushroom Saute. Tell your family
that this was a favorite of pianist
Artur Rubinstein (1886-1982).

FRIED
MUSHROOM SAUTE
1 pound mushrooms
flour
2 T. butter
1 egg yolk
salt and pepper
Thoroughly wash the mushrooms.
Place the mushroom caps only into
boiling water. Remove after two
minutes and drain and dry well.
Season the caps with salt and pep-
per.
Dip the mushrooms into the egg
yolk and a bit of flour. Melt butter
in a frying pan and place the mush-
rooms cap side down. Fry for six
minutes.

• In addition to apples and honey, a
number of families have the Rosh
Hashanah tradition of enjoying a
specially shaped challah. Sometimes,
the challah is round, to symbolize a
crown, recalling God the King.
Other times, families like a challah
in the shape of a ladder. This is a
reminder of Jacob's famous dream
(Genesis 28:10-22), in which a lad-
der connected heaven and earth. So,
too, on this day do we hope in our
lives to see heaven and earth, God
and man, united. It also harkens to
the Rosh Hashanah prayers about
"who will be made poor and who
will be made rich." We hope that
God will raise our spirits and our
lives in many ways on this holiday.
Why not give your children some
dough and ask them to create their
own specially shaped challah in
honor of Rosh Hashanah.

• Don't tell this to your young chil-
dren, but some families prefer not to
take a nap on Rosh Hashanah (with
some, this holds for the first day
only).
According to The Jerusalem
Talmud, If one sleeps at the begin-