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Finding Comfort
It is extremely difficult if not utterly impossible to find any 
kind of comfort in the current situation. However, a picture 
sent to me this morning on Facebook may provide, what we 
call in Hebrew: hatzie nechama, or half a comfort. It showed 
a Jewish Israeli wearing a tallit standing in prayer next to a 
Magen David vehicle, and to his right a Muslim praying on a 
prayer mat.
If this notion of being in this together will endure, perhaps 
there is now a better hope for peace between Arab and Jew in 
my native Israel.

Rachel Kapen

West Bloomfield

letters

Better Understanding of Passover
On this Passover we, and also our neighbors this time, will 
come closer to and better understand the experience of 
our ancestors some 33 centuries ago sequestered in their 
homes while the angel of death roams the streets outside.

Dennis L. Green

Farmington Hills 

CORRECTION 
In the story “103 Parks in 365 Days” (March 19, page 40), the 
correct spelling of the URL is trekers.org.

Yiddish Limerick

Passover

Di shtub azay Pesachdik, di tzimern will shine 
Der tish azay shain mit di glezlakh of vine.
Mir essn un trinken, the Haggadah we read
Mir zingen di zmiros, ich bin hayzerik un mid.
It’
s Pesach, mein Pesach, so please kum arayn.

Di shtub: the house
Azay Pesachdik: so Pesach ready
Di tzimern: the rooms
Der tish azay shain: the table so beautiful 
Mit di glezlakh: with the little glasses of wine 
Mir essn un trinken: we eat and we drink 
Mir zingen di zmiros: we sing the hymns 
Ich bin hayzerik un mid: I am hoarse and tired 
Kum arayn: come inside.

By Rachel Kapen