…HELPING JEWISH FAMILIES GROWTM iTNTHE APPLE TREE Mrs. Applebaum: When Wishes Come True Great Jewish Sport Spots On The Web Put Together Your Own Seder Plate Why Columbus Was Behind The Times Celebrate: Great Ideas For The Seder Table On our cover: Photo b '<fist° Huso. Linda Friedman with her children Nina, 18, and Danny, 10. Hol iday fun with Barney and frogs. Pa c e 68 …
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…<9 CoLoRing PaGe > 1 First, color the plate. 2. Then, cut it out along the dotted lines. 3. Finally, place it between two dear plastic plates, and use it at your seder dinner. ><11-: r Name: Boy or girl: City, town, zip: Phone number: School: Parents' Names: Age: e can't wait to see your artistic skills! Children aged 4-14 may use crayons, markers, glitter, stickers or any other materials to dec- orate this picture. We'll reprin...…
…The BiG Story Len Blaifeder and sons find many reasons to say 'thank you' at Pesach. Thank You Barney, And Happy Pesach, Too 1 Len Blaifeder Special to The AppleTree 5 the father of three boys in diapers, I'm finally over the embarrassMent of having a purple dinosaur named Barney "video baby sit" my sons. In fact, I I know (and often can be heard singing) the lyrics to virtually every I song on the children's videotapes. I I've even come t...…
…There's so much happening at Shaarey Zedek's Applebaum Jewish Parenting Center thankful. They also help us realize that while our prayers, or pleases, are not always answered to our lik- ing, we do have One to guide us through our increasingly complicated lives. By cleaning our homes in prepara- tion of Pesach, we are reminded that I God always offers us the opportunity to create new beginnings. We are blessed with the freedom to cast aside o...…
…FYI Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish parenting Center Congregation Shaarey Zedek Presents FAMILY CONCERT Sunday April 5, 1998 3:00 p.m. from New York Young Peoples Klezmer Workshop at Applebaum Jewish Parenting Center Christopher Columbus! What a rabbi knew long, long before old Chris did. 4200 Walnut Lake Road Refreshments will be served. Tickets will be available at the door for $3.00 per person. This concert is being sponsor...…
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…CeleBraTe Starting A Tradition 0-1 The googly eyes have it when it comes to fun kippot for the holic ay. Sharon Monello Borstein Special to The AppleTree * You are sup- ; posed to recline during the seder, at part of Pesach do so let the children your children remember use fabric paint or from year to year? The permanent markers matzoh? The hunt for the afikomen? on plain, white pil- Singing the four questions? My son 1 low cases for use ...…
…> > KID Some interesting tidbits about those friendly faces at the seder table. was used in place of money. Ways to use salt: Clean up the worst greasy mess ine," Benjamin Franklin from your seder meal simply by said, "makes daily liv- sprinkling a little salt in the pan, ing easier, less hurried, then wiping it with a paper towel. with fewer tensions and more toter- - Put out a grease fire on the ; once." stove by sprinkling salt on the In...…
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…Let's Make A Date Matchmakers help determine if the ideal marriage partner is behind door number 1, 2 or 3. BARBARA HORWITZ Special to The Jewish News louds of cigarette smoke float toward the ceiling, and over- sized speakers pulsate with the beat of a heavy bass guitar. People pack into the dimly lit room. Sara and her girlfriend do a lap, beer in hand, looking to make eye contact with Mr. Right, who's hopefully Jewish. Next frame: Jonath...…
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…She Says > Trudging through Passover to keep tradition. don't keep kosher, except for the week n my list of favorite holi- of Passover, when the dishes change days, Passover is not number and rabbis could eat matzah off my one. mother's linoleum floor. Put it this way — by day I used to threaten — as my mom five, I'm thinking I'd rather fast for an slaved in the kitchen for two straight entire week than force another days preparing a proper...…
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…Close NEW JEWS, NEW GERMANY < ; Kenneth Stein takes a revealing trip to the country his parents fled. B erlin — Jewish life in Ger- many is resurgent. But Ger- man Jewry today is a mix of strange contrasts that leaves the visitor — particularly one with deep German roots — pondering the not distant depths of destruction that still mark Jewish life here. As one ironic example, a pictorial history of Israel graces the lobby of the Berlin P...…
…Counter clockwise: A festive Purim parade in Berlin; Jonas Mekhers and Phillip Kein before Shabbat services in Berlin's Pestalozzi Strasse synagogue; a -Gertnan volunteer with Action Reconciliation listens to Holocaust sur- vivor Moses Grin; the Yiddish singing group Michaele Shoene. .6% unlocks and locks the ark when the Torah is removed and returned. Then there's the Wittenberg Platz stop on the underground subway. A placard enumerates the...…
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…Ovations For Eli Eli Wallach gives another memorable performance in "Visiting Mr. Green." ALICE BURDICK SCHWEIGER Special to The Jewish News IV hen veteran actor Eli Wallach appears on stage at the Union Square Theatre in New York in Visiting Mr. Green, it's clear that a great presence is standing in front of the audience. Wallach's moving perfor- mance as an 86-year-old lonely, can- tankerous Jewish man in this two- character Off-Broadway...…
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…At The Movies Boaz Yakin controversial new film, `.`A Price Above Rubies," examines a woman grappling with life choices in Chasidic Brooklyn. SERENA DONADONI Special to The Jewish News Price Above Rubies, the haunting new film from writer/director Boaz Yakin, begins with a young boy, Yossi, telling his little sister Sonia a tale about one of their ancestors; it feels more like a fable than family his- tory. The story, about a woman who dis-...…
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