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kosher meals would not even open confronted with a meal that was
them!
chometz. Later in the flight, I bumped
Now that I knew that someone had into my frum co-traveler and asked him
booked kosher meals for me, I feigned whether the meal had been chometz or
sleep on the flight from Istanbul to Pesachdik. “The cold, outside part of
Washington while the meals were the meal was chometz, but the heated
served. It was easier than explaining part was Pesachdik,” was his reply.
the situation to a new crew.
From Istanbul to Israel, I was seated
B”H, I arrived uneventfully and was
able to participate in the bris. The next to a young Jewish couple from a
mohel my children had arranged was
Rabbi Moshe Rappaport, an old chaver small town in southern Illinois, travel-
of mine from yeshiva, and also the
mohel of three of my own sons. ing to Israel for vacation. The snack
At Dulles airport, on the return, I served indeed had a reliable kosher-for-
saw one other fellow wearing a yarmul-
ke waiting to board my flight to Pesach certification. It consisted of a
Istanbul. I went over to him and men-
tioned to him that the kosher meal small piece of matza, packaged as a
served on the plane might be chometz.
“My travel agent promised me that it cracker, with the hechsher of the Eidah
would be kosher lepesach,” he insisted. Hachareidis of Yerushalayim, some
“I don’t know what he promised Pesachdik jam to spread on the matza,
you,” I responded, “but I’ll tell you what with the same hechsher, and some
happened yesterday on my trip in.” I lemonade as a beverage, with a well-
then proceeded to relate my experi-
ence. respected hechsher and the ingredients
listed as “fresh squeezed lemon and
Again, I feigned sleep rather than be
pure cane sugar only.”
Thus, we see that, although the
Haggada has but a single answer to
the Ma Nishtana’s first question,
Turkish Airlines provides three: “only
chometz,” “chometz and matza,” and
“only matza.”◆
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them!
chometz. Later in the flight, I bumped
Now that I knew that someone had into my frum co-traveler and asked him
booked kosher meals for me, I feigned whether the meal had been chometz or
sleep on the flight from Istanbul to Pesachdik. “The cold, outside part of
Washington while the meals were the meal was chometz, but the heated
served. It was easier than explaining part was Pesachdik,” was his reply.
the situation to a new crew.
From Istanbul to Israel, I was seated
B”H, I arrived uneventfully and was
able to participate in the bris. The next to a young Jewish couple from a
mohel my children had arranged was
Rabbi Moshe Rappaport, an old chaver small town in southern Illinois, travel-
of mine from yeshiva, and also the
mohel of three of my own sons. ing to Israel for vacation. The snack
At Dulles airport, on the return, I served indeed had a reliable kosher-for-
saw one other fellow wearing a yarmul-
ke waiting to board my flight to Pesach certification. It consisted of a
Istanbul. I went over to him and men-
tioned to him that the kosher meal small piece of matza, packaged as a
served on the plane might be chometz.
“My travel agent promised me that it cracker, with the hechsher of the Eidah
would be kosher lepesach,” he insisted. Hachareidis of Yerushalayim, some
“I don’t know what he promised Pesachdik jam to spread on the matza,
you,” I responded, “but I’ll tell you what with the same hechsher, and some
happened yesterday on my trip in.” I lemonade as a beverage, with a well-
then proceeded to relate my experi-
ence. respected hechsher and the ingredients
listed as “fresh squeezed lemon and
Again, I feigned sleep rather than be
pure cane sugar only.”
Thus, we see that, although the
Haggada has but a single answer to
the Ma Nishtana’s first question,
Turkish Airlines provides three: “only
chometz,” “chometz and matza,” and
“only matza.”◆
100 u www.wherewhatwhen.com u
