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Yom Kippur
2003

ORIGINAL DAIRY
$112.95 per person

A dairy tray for the most discerning tastes
Hand Sliced New York Nova • Michigan Smoked Sable
New York Smoked Whitefish • Solid Albacore Tuna Salad
Cottage Cheese or Farmers' Salad
Imported Swiss, American & Cream Cheeses
Sliced Tomatoes, Greek Olives & Cucumbers
Choice of Fresh Bagels or Rolls

Available on Request: Creamed Herring or Chubs

ORCHARD LAKE DAIRY
$11.95 per person

Our traditional dairy tray for lighter appetites
Hand Sliced New York Nova • Chopped Egg Salad
Solid Albacore Tuna Salad (fat free available)
Sockeye Salmon Salad • Farmers' Salad
Imported Swiss, Muenster & Cream Cheeses
Sliced Tomatoes, Greek Olives & Cucumbers
Choice of Fresh Bagels or Rolls

from page 117

driven by a desire to record commu-
nities of "vanishing" Jews.
Whether it was Ethiopia or
Uzbekistan, he found "an incredible
reservoir" of Jewish culture inter-
twined with other worlds, and he
was determined to unravel that
thread before it disintegrated.
One haunting image comes from a
community of rural Yemenite Jews.
A grandfather reads a Jewish text
with his young grandson.
Years later he found that boy, a
teenager named Mazal — Hebrew
for "fortune" — in an Israeli absorp-
tion center. Mazal, then 16, along
with his 14-year-old wife and infant
daughter, are transplanted to Israel,
but they seem hardly changed out-
wardly.
Today that baby girl is 12. She
lives with her religious parents and
four siblings in the Tel Aviv suburb
of Rehovot. She loves to roller-
blade.
Brenner embraces these stories of
exile and home with a spiritual fer-
vor of his own.
He recounts the story of Abraham,
who obeys God's commandment to
"Lech rcha" — "Go forth" — by
journeying into the wilderness of
Canaan.
And God in Deuteronomy com-
manded the Jews to remember the
laws of Israel by affixing a mezuzah

to the doorposts of their homes.
Brenner points out that the word
mezuzah" derives from the Hebrew
verb "zuz," or go.
Jews "are both sedentary and
nomads," he says. "This injunction,
`Lech l'cha,' is not a curse — it's
truly a project, a vocation. History
unfolds and enables the Jewish peo-
ple to accomplish this vocation."
Often Brenner finds Jews at their
place of work, like the Tajik barbers
in a local barber shop from his first
trip to Tajikistan, and later the same
group after they had immigrated to
Israel — posing in the Dead Sea.
In another photo, he shows Italian
Jews at St. Peter's Square outside the
Vatican, selling pictures of the pope.
"Not only didn't they succumb to
the temptation to idol worship —
they are selling the idols," he says.
The more he sees, Brenner says,
the less he understands about the
world's Jews. ❑

"

"The Jewish Journey: Frederic
Brenner's Photographic Odyssey,"
an exhibit of 150 of Brenner's
photographs, runs Oct. 3-Jan..)11.-
at the Brooklyn Museum of
in New York-City. (718) 638-
5000.

Available on Request: Fat-Free Cream Cheese

Cheese Blintzes or Potato Latkes make a festive addition
to any Dairy Tray. Available in either full or half sizes.

STAGE HOLIDAY HOURS:
Closed in observance of Rosh Hashana Friday evening and all day Saturday.
Open all day Sunday, September 28 at 9:00 a.m.
Closed in observance of Yom Kippur Sunday evening.
Open for advance-order tray pickup only on Monday 2:00.5:00 p.m.
Open all day Tuesday, October 7 at 10:00 a.m.

We are proud to continue a tradition of excellence since 1962 serving
exclusively corned beef from KELLY & EISENBERG OF CHICAGO and
fine delicatessen products from K. LEFKOFSKY & VIENNA OF DETROIT

Delicatessen

9/26
2003

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Grandson studying in his grandfathers jewehy workshop in Haidan, Yemen, 1983

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