KOSHER TO GO
PASSOVER MENU 2010
'World
A service of Jewish Senior Life
Lanny LeBlanc • CATERING DIRECTOR
Marian Smith • EXECUTIY CHEF
VAAD Sup- v
_
Please call to place your orders:
248.788.2531
6710 W. Maple Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
Orders must be received by Friday, April 8, 2011
pre-paid with a check, cash or credit card.
A Leftist Demise
Tikkun is turning 25, and shrinking.
Jonathan Mark
New York Jewish Week
New York
ORDERS MAY BE PICKED UP on Monday, April 18, 2011
BETWEEN 8:00 A.M. AND 3:00 P.M.
STARTERS
SEDER PLATE INGREDIENTS
GEFILTE FISH LOAF (serves 12-14)
BEEF CHOPPED LIVER
CHAROSET
$10.95 each
$50.00 each
$8.99 pound
$4.95'/2 Pint
SOUP
CHICKEN SOUP
BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP
ROASTED RED PEPPER SOUP
MATZOH BALLS
$8.95 per Quart (4 Servings)
$10.95 per Quart (4 Servings)
$14.95 per Quart (4 Servings)
$ .95 each
ENTREES MEAT
PAN SEARED SALMON*
BAKED APRICOT CHICKEN*
BEEF BRISKET*
WHOLE ROASED TURKEY
SLOW ROASTED PRIME RIB
VEGETABLES & SUCH
GLAZED ROOT VEGETABLES
SWEET MATZOH KUGEL
MASHED SWEET POTATOES
ROASTED CARMELIZED CARROTS
POTATO KUGEL
HERB ROASTED REDSKINS
JULIENNE YELLOW SQUASH,
ZUCHINNI & CARROTS
PAREVE PASSOVER DESSERTS
WINE NUT SPONGE CAKE
FLOURLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE
FRESH FRUIT TRAY
$14.95 per person
$11.25 per person
$14.25 per person
$75.00 (serves 15)
$16.95 per person
$14.50
$17.95
$13.50
$7.95 (12 Servings)
$12.95 (12 Servings)
$11.95 (12 Servings)
$10.95 (12 Servings)
$28.50 serves 10-12
$28.50 serves 10-12
SMALL serves 10 TO 15 $45.00
LARGE serves 20 TO 25 $60.00
* denotes a minimum order of 6
KOSHER TO GO CATERING
WISHES ALL OUR FRIENDS
A VERY HAPPY PASSOVER!
22
March 24 • 2011
R
evolutions belong to the
young, and Michael Lerner is
growing old.
Tikkun, the magazine he founded
and still edits, turns 25 as he turns 68.
Lerner wonders how long he can keep
doing this.
Tikkun is "the largest circulation
progressive Jewish magazine in the
world," he says, but the circulation is
down to 18,000, and though 140,000
get Tikkun's
e-mails, the
magazine
announced it
will become
smaller in size
and publish
four times a
year, down from
six. Writers go
unpaid. Tikkun,
Michael Lerner
like so many
in the media,
is counting on a beautiful website to
save itself.
It is Tikkun's birthday, but the party
seems elsewhere.
Lerner, for years if not decades,
advocated the creation of a leftist
rival to AIPAC, the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee — a group
committed to supporting the Israeli
government, right or left — but when
that rival arrived in the form of J
Street, Lerner was more forgotten
than honored.
Lerner, for years if not decades,
has been warning in Tikkun that
the pro-Israel organizations in the
United States were alienating young
American Jews, but it was only when
Peter Beinart wrote "The Failure of
the American Jewish Establishment"
in last June's New York Review of
Books that the matter catapulted to
the top of the communal conversation.
Overnight, Beinart owned the topic,
not Lerner.
Tikkun's influence may have peaked
in the early 1990s when Bill Clinton,
before becoming president, sent let-
ters to Lerner saying he regularly read
and admired Tikkun. Hillary Clinton,
the new first lady, began speaking of
"the politics of meaning:' a Lerner
catch-phrase recognized by other
journalists who started writing about
him as Hillary's "guru:'
"Hillary told me, 'We're fully aligned
with you on your vision for Israel and
American politics:" Lerner recalls. "I
believed her."
By mid-1993 it was over: His phone
calls to the White House went unan-
swered.
"Yes," says Lerner, "Tikkun is
unapologetically utopian."
He once was excluded from an anti-
war rally in San Francisco because
he was thought to be too pro-Israel.
After all, not only did he give his son
his blessing to join the Israeli army,
but he doesn't agree with anti-Israel
boycotts or sanctions, and he doesn't
think Israel is an apartheid state.
Tikkun was launched in 1986 as a
leftist response to Commentary, but
we were also critical of the religio-
phobic left, including The Nation,
Dissent and Mother Jones," says Lerner.
"There hadn't been, and there still
isn't, a progressive voice that was also
pro-Judaism and pro-spiritual con-
sciousness."
Lerner argued in Tikkun that
"Israeli responses to the two intifa-
das were morally incorrect:' He now
admits, "The fact that we still insisted
on the humanity of Palestinians, at
that time, caused us to lose some of
our Jewish support." Tikkun did a
readership survey and found that 40
percent of its subscribers were now
non-Jews.
In 1995, ordained as a rabbi by
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi,
Lerner opened a Jewish Renewal shul,
Beyt Tikkun. Two years ago, Lerner
says, several congregants asked him,
"We Jews have become pharaoh to the
Palestinian people — so would we be
hypocrites to sit around our Passover
table celebrating our own freedom,
rejoicing at the way the Egyptians
were stricken with plagues and their
firstborn killed while ignoring what
Israel is doing today in the name of
the Jewish people?"
Lerner's answer: "This is precisely
the kind of discussion that is appro-
priate for the seder table this year."
A few weeks ago, David Suissa, a
CC