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Food And Freedom
Lessons from the garden for Passover.
Sunday,
May 15, 2016
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8:00am: 5K Family Fun Run Starts
(registration required)
FREE Kosher
Lunch
10:30am: Open to the Public
11:00am: Special Guest Speaker Gil Hoffman,
Chief Political Correspondent and Analyst for
The Jerusalem Post
12:30pm: Kosher Lunch (no charge)
1:30pm: Walk Starts
Community-wide Event Hosted by
Temple Shir Shalom
(3999 Walnut Lake Rd., corner of Orchard Lake and Walnut Lake Rd.)
Convenient nearby parking & shuttle service available.
For more info contact :
Andre Douville @ 248-737-8700 or andre@walkforisrael.org
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Great Lakes Region
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Michigan Board of Rabbis
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Holocaust Memorial Center
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Rebecca Starr
Rebecca E. Starr | Special to the Jewish News
I
was raised on a sheep farm in
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in a
small town called Pickford. This
isn’t a phrase you hear very often,
especially from a Jewish girl, but
nevertheless, it is the life my parents
chose for me for the first 18 years of
my life.
We lived off of the land. Our farm
produced everything we needed to
fill our bodies with healthy, whole-
some foods, and we were deeply con-
nected to the land on which we lived.
Our garden produced more veg-
etables than our freezer could hold,
and we ate the lamb that we raised.
My connection to food and where it
comes from is rooted in my rich past,
and I am regularly reminded of it as
the Passover season approaches.
AS WE EAT MATZAH
Matzah (unleavened bread) is the
bread of affliction, the lechem oni,
or the bread of poverty. The Jewish
custom of eating matzah for seven or
eight days (depending on your cus-
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tom) during the holiday of Passover
reminds us that we were once slaves
in Egypt. It reminds us that we did
not have the resources to diversify or
even complete our meals in bondage.
The act of eating matzah takes us
back to a place and time when food
and freedom were scarce. It is truly
amazing that such a simple food can
bring such a strong and important
message about the journey of the
Jewish people. In truth, it also offers
a very modern message to us as Jews
living in the 21st century.
Bondage and slavery can pres-
ent themselves in many forms. The
Israelites were literally slaves to the
work of Pharaoh, but chains need not
be present for us to feel as though
we are victims of certain types of
injustices today. When we consider
the ways in which we access food on
a daily basis, we realize quickly that
sustainable, healthy, local, fair trade
food is extremely difficult to find and
even more difficult to find in less
affluent areas.