For Openers
Why Is This Birth Different?
Wilson said. "I guess you should always listen to your mother
hen Ann Arbor residents Joey
I because that night at 1 a.m. we were off to the hospital: Jessica,
and Jessica Wilson discovered
her mom (Judy Kirzner of Carmel, N.Y.), me, the chicken and
their baby was due the day
the kugel."
after Passover ended, they real-
At 8:19 Tuesday morning, April 22, Simeon Isaac Wilson was
ized the possibility of a slightly early delivery
born. His grandparents, in addition to Judy Kirzner, Jerry and
would cause a Passover hospital stay.
Leah Ann Kirzner and Meta Miller and her husband Paul, are
"We had a non-Pesach bag packed for a
Marc and Linda Wilson of Greenville, S.C. His great-grandpar-
month before the due date," Joey Wilson said.
ents, along with Sara Kirzner
"I packed
SHELLI
of Windsor, are Hedy Weiss of
LIEBMAN Clif Bars
Brooklyn, N.Y., and Sonia
Lamensdorf of Memphis,
DORFMAN (energy bars),
Tenn.
Staff Writer cookies, chips,
Powerade and
After the delivery, Jessica's
candy for Jessica to suck on
mom went back to the Wilson
during labor."
home to do some more cook-
But then Jessica's contrac-
ing. "She also packed up the
tions began April 17, the
rest of our Pesach food and
night of the second seder, at
brought it to the hospital,
the home of her father and
knowing that we wouldn't be
stepmother Jerry and Leah
l- much of it after the hol-
eating
Ann Kirzner of Southfield.
iday," Joey said.
Then, Wilson said, "We
The Wilsons soon discov-
packed a Pesach bag with
ered it was a good thing they
matzah, cream cheese, jelly,
thought ahead. While the hos-
yogurt, Grandma Sara's choco-
pital provided kosher meals for
late chip cookies and apple
Jessica, they were not certified
juice."
kosher-for-Passover. "I'm sure
When her contractions
the nurses thought we were
stopped, the two kept the bag
crazy shlepping all that food to
packed. By the end of Shabbat Jessica and Joey Wilson with Passover baby, Simeon Isaac
the hospital," Joey said.
two nights later, they decided
Even Simeon Isaac made his
it would be best to go back to
presence known, having an uncomfortable night after his first
Ann Arbor to be near the hospital, the University of Michigan
Passover dinner. "On Tuesday, he was up all night," said Jessica,
Health System, where Jessica was scheduled to deliver their first
who is nursing the baby. "When we told the pediatrician the
baby.
next morning, he said the matzah I was eating goes down like
At 9 p.m. the next night, Joey spoke with his mother, Meta
cement and transfers to the breast milk."
Miller of Atlanta, telling her that Jessica was having contrac-
When the holiday ended, the Wilsons' kitchen was converted
dons. But since she'd been feeling them for the two weeks
back to the way it was before Passover — in time to prepare
before the phone call, he didn't really think she was in labor.
lunch for friends and family coming to celebrate at Simeon
"My morn insisted I cook chicken and potato kugel for yorn
Isaac's brit milah (ritual circumcision) April 29. ❑
toy (the holiday) to take to the hospital in case it happened,"
IV
Shabbat Candlelighting
— Sylvia Cohen, West Bloomfield
mother and grandmother
Candlelighting
Candlelighting
Friday, May 2, 8:15 p.m.
Friday, May 9, 8:23 p.m.
Shabbat Ends
Shabbat Ends
Saturday, May 3, 9:23 p.m.
Saturday, May 10, 9:32 p.m.
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Don't Know ©2001
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n the synagogue, we read entire
"personality" books from the
Hebrew scriptures, books
named after an individual: on
Yom Kippur (Jonah), Purim (Esther)
and Shavuot (Ruth). There is one
other time; can you name it and tell
when it is read?
Goldfein
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Quotables
"Can playing baseball break down
barriers? On Israel's baseball teams,
secular kids play with ultra-Orthodox,
rich with poor, Christians with Jews
and city kids with kibbutz children.
Whether the baseball diamond can
serve as the arena in which the con-
flicting sides in the Middle East strug-
gle forge partnerships remains to be
seen."
— Judy Labensohn, author of the arti-
cle 'A League of Their Own," in the
April issue of Hadassah magazine.
Yiddish Limericks
A diplomat said with fatigue,
"I've had it with plots and intrigue.
I'm telling the olem,*
Today's shlekhter sholem
Iz besser vee moigans good krieg.""
— Martha Jo Fleischmann
- world
** (Today's) bad peace is better than
tomorrow's (good) war.
"Lighting Shabbat candles is a wonderful thing to pass down to your children
and grandchildren. In our family, we are starting to light Shabbat candles, as
well as have a Shabbat dinner with Kiddush. This way, the children know it is
a weekly tradition and that it happens not just on holidays, but every week."
Sponsored by Lubavitch
Women's Organization.
To submit a candlelighting
message or to receive
complimentary candlesticks
and information on Shabbat
candlelighting, call Miriam
Amzalak of Oak Park at
(248) 967-5056 or e-mail-
marnzalak@juno.corn
B
Atg'J't
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Yiddish-isms
treif
An animal not slain by ritual laws and
by an authorized shoykhet. Any food
that is not kosher.
Source: From The New Joys of Yiddish
by Leo Calvin Rosten, edited by
Lawrence Bush, copyright 2001, by
the Rosten Family LLC. Used by per-
mission of the Rosten Family LLC.
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