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32 BALTIMORE’S JEWISH FAMILY MAGAZINE
Connecting Dear Readers,
through LINKS This issue arrives in your mailbox just as the rhythms of pre-Pesach heat up and suf-
by Judy Landman
fuse Baltimore’s Jewish homes with the season’s special vibes. Nature cooperates: Yellow
34 jonquils peek from the ground, trees power their buds, and birds busy themselves with
their own pre-Pesach fervor of nest building. We in our homes fling open the windows
Room at the Seder and drag ourselves from under the slavishness of winter into the age-old cycle of free-
by C.B. Lieber dom and rebirth.
42 Whatever feelings of panic afflicted us weeks ago give way to excitement. The end is
in sight. We’ll make it! Once again, 1,001 laws, venerable customs, and newly-construct-
Tiny Paradise ed family traditions preoccupy us. Once again, we review the Haggadah and longstand-
by Sam Finkel ing family chumros – to which many lovingly cling but others desire to renegotiate. Once
again, we are amazed at the new chumros our children bring back from yeshiva or sem-
58 inary, and await the delightful insights that our boys and girls – from preschool on –
bring to the table.
Fielding the Call
by Shlomo Goldberger This is how we approximate the feelings of our ancestors over 3,000 years ago as
they struggled to ready themselves for Yetzias Mitzraim. It is one of the ways we fulfill
64 the famous statement in the Haggadah, “In every generation, a person is required to
imagine himself as if he actually left Egypt.” There, they– oops, we – were, long ago, if
Darrell Zaslow not scrubbing the house with toothpicks and Easy-Off, then packing the family’s belong-
by Dovid Fink ings to prepare to leave Egypt, a country in which we and our parents and grandpar-
ents had lived for so long. Our destination was unknown, but our emuna was strong.
70
The pre-Pesach season is a particularly joyous time in our lives. Let’s do away with
Journey to Nachlaot the family quarrels and tensions, the worries of not getting everything 100 percent
by Bracha Shugarman cleaned and four extra kugels cooked. Let’s revel in the blessing of being in a land
where we can openly celebrate our holiday-of-holidays, and ready ourselves to relive the
80 story that has uniquely captured the imagination of the world. Let this season be a time
of bonding with our family members in happy intensity as we all sit down to the Seder
Here Goes the Sun together.
by Margie Pensak
The WWW wishes everyone a chag kasher vesame’ach, a happy and kosher Pesach.
88
AD DEADLINE PUBLICATION DATE
Pesach Wine Primer
by Dr. Kenneth Friedman March 31, 2017 April 24, 2017
May 8, 2017
92 May 15, 2017
u www.wherewhatwhen.com u
Great Guest/Great Host
by P. Samuels
96
Pesach on Turkish Air
by Rabbi Y. Kaganoff
104
Sock It to Me
by Eve Poupko
108
All About Chutzpa
by I. Kinek
116
Pesach Recipes
by Bracha Shor
124
Hurdles
by Chaya Sarah
ben Shahar
22
Connecting Dear Readers,
through LINKS This issue arrives in your mailbox just as the rhythms of pre-Pesach heat up and suf-
by Judy Landman
fuse Baltimore’s Jewish homes with the season’s special vibes. Nature cooperates: Yellow
34 jonquils peek from the ground, trees power their buds, and birds busy themselves with
their own pre-Pesach fervor of nest building. We in our homes fling open the windows
Room at the Seder and drag ourselves from under the slavishness of winter into the age-old cycle of free-
by C.B. Lieber dom and rebirth.
42 Whatever feelings of panic afflicted us weeks ago give way to excitement. The end is
in sight. We’ll make it! Once again, 1,001 laws, venerable customs, and newly-construct-
Tiny Paradise ed family traditions preoccupy us. Once again, we review the Haggadah and longstand-
by Sam Finkel ing family chumros – to which many lovingly cling but others desire to renegotiate. Once
again, we are amazed at the new chumros our children bring back from yeshiva or sem-
58 inary, and await the delightful insights that our boys and girls – from preschool on –
bring to the table.
Fielding the Call
by Shlomo Goldberger This is how we approximate the feelings of our ancestors over 3,000 years ago as
they struggled to ready themselves for Yetzias Mitzraim. It is one of the ways we fulfill
64 the famous statement in the Haggadah, “In every generation, a person is required to
imagine himself as if he actually left Egypt.” There, they– oops, we – were, long ago, if
Darrell Zaslow not scrubbing the house with toothpicks and Easy-Off, then packing the family’s belong-
by Dovid Fink ings to prepare to leave Egypt, a country in which we and our parents and grandpar-
ents had lived for so long. Our destination was unknown, but our emuna was strong.
70
The pre-Pesach season is a particularly joyous time in our lives. Let’s do away with
Journey to Nachlaot the family quarrels and tensions, the worries of not getting everything 100 percent
by Bracha Shugarman cleaned and four extra kugels cooked. Let’s revel in the blessing of being in a land
where we can openly celebrate our holiday-of-holidays, and ready ourselves to relive the
80 story that has uniquely captured the imagination of the world. Let this season be a time
of bonding with our family members in happy intensity as we all sit down to the Seder
Here Goes the Sun together.
by Margie Pensak
The WWW wishes everyone a chag kasher vesame’ach, a happy and kosher Pesach.
88
AD DEADLINE PUBLICATION DATE
Pesach Wine Primer
by Dr. Kenneth Friedman March 31, 2017 April 24, 2017
May 8, 2017
92 May 15, 2017
u www.wherewhatwhen.com u
Great Guest/Great Host
by P. Samuels
96
Pesach on Turkish Air
by Rabbi Y. Kaganoff
104
Sock It to Me
by Eve Poupko
108
All About Chutzpa
by I. Kinek
116
Pesach Recipes
by Bracha Shor
124
Hurdles
by Chaya Sarah
ben Shahar
22
