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Light Shabbat candles: PREPPING FOR PASSOVER 6:15 p.m. Friday, Mar. 12 Tina Wasserman and k osher food purveyors get you ready, pp.2,14 Shabbat ends: 7:25 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 13 2 | March 11, 2021 Turning the tables, shelves, kitchens Kosher Passover prep

By Deb Silverthorn Dallas’ kosher kitchens, restaurants and kosher stores are fl ipping their spaces and readying for the Passover holiday with groceries, ready-to-go meals and scrumptious seder menus. “It’s a big deal to ready a house for Pesach, it’s a huge deal and great responsibility to turn our establishments but we’re up to it,” said Rabbi David Shawel, Dallas Kosher’s director of supervision. The agency supervises the kashering of facilities throughout the community. “This city, and Photo: Courtesy Lowell Michelson the commitment of kashrut for Melissa Michelson prepared meals in 2020, the fi rst time Simcha Catering & Event Designs ever served a Seder in a Box for one. many, is a dream. To have so many wonderful places from every plate and every spot on every two kosher Tom Thumb locations Photo: Courtesy Ruthy Henkin Ruthie Henkin, owner of A Taste of the World Catering which to choose — you can feel shelf,” said JCC Chef Eli Cohn- have reported that despite Texas’ the enthusiasm and we all reap the Wein. He said that preparing relaxation of mask mandates, they with curbside pickup and delivery with the help of Dallas Kosher. reward.” traditional Seder meals and food will require mask-wearing by their options. “I’m happy we are hearing from The Aaron Family Jewish for the week of Passover is an employees and customers. For Ruthie Henkin, owner of some people who will be coming Community Center’s kitchen honor. Recipes are infused with Some families who are used to A Taste of the World Catering, together with those they love,” expects to serve nearly 1,700 kosher childhood memories, and “it’s an traveling to family or to resorts creating dishes that pull from said Henkin. “It’s not 40 people at meals for the seniors of the J and opportunity to share our food with during Passover are again staying traditions around the world, a table, maybe again someday, but Jewish Family Service’s Kosher love.” local, some never having done while providing unique fl avors, it’s a start and I’m so happy to be a Home Delivered Meals program. During the second Passover the cooking for themselves. To keeps her menus innovative. Her part of my clients’ holiday.” “I love the ritual of the annual of the pandemic, Dallas’ kosher alleviate the how-to/what-to-do, meat kitchen, based at the Schultz Chaim Goldfeder, owner of overhaul to the nitty-gritty community is adapting. Kosher many Dallas kosher establishments Rosenberg Campus, will be turned cleaning of every corner, between Palate, Milk and Honey and the are sharing Seder menus, some over for the holiday on March 21 see KOSHER, p.9 Virtual Legislative Mission to Austin Jewish Communities Day at the State Tuesday, March 23, 2021 (10 am and 3 pm) & Wednesday, March 24, 2021 (10 am and 3 pm) Join all the Jewish Federations in Texas via Zoom

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Kosher Palate reinstates ttjpnews.comjpnews.com mask requirement

By Shira Hanau concerned about the many members of Texas including a mask-burning (JTA) — When Texas Gov. Greg of the community who would not feel bonfi re to mark the end of the Abbott announced last week that he comfortable shopping in the store for state’s mask mandate. At the same would end the state’s 9-month-old Passover if masks were not required. time, many area synagogues have mask mandate, the proprietors of “The folks who were concerned remained closed or required masks Kosher Palate in Dallas decided they about health might not shop there and distancing at services. would adhere to his rules. during their busiest time of the year,” As the pandemic has worn on, Ann & Nate Levine Academy Celebrates Customers would no longer be he said. “I thought it would actually some community members say required to wear masks to shop, put their business at risk.” the range of opinions about how to they wrote in a Facebook post So he called the Goldfeders, whom respond has widened. March 4, two days after Abbott’s he has gotten to know while shopping “At the beginning of the announcement. Staff members, at the store frequently himself. pandemic, there was more of a however, would continue to wear “When you have a good united front,” said another member masks while working. relationship, you pick up the phone of the Orthodox community who Three days later, the proprietors and talk about it,” Sunshine said. also asked not to be named. “There’s revised their rules. By the time he called, the rabbi defi nitely a difference among “Due to the constructive feedback said, the Goldfeders had already individuals; there are people who are we have received, Kosher Palate has heard from enough people that they having guests for Shabbat. A lot of it 2021 Virtual Gala decided to maintain the current were ready to roll back the decision is political.” policies of mask wearing through the and require masks. Members of Goldfeder said the backlash Passover holiday,” the store wrote in a the community had been reaching against the decision to lift the mask Facebook post Sunday. out to the store through Facebook requirement was painful, especially The episode makes clear the comments, messages and phone given the role played by the store in high stakes of the latest phase of the calls as soon as the decision to stop providing kosher meals to those who coronavirus pandemic, as individuals requiring masks was announced. had lost power and running water Honoring Lois Davidson and Emily Kern and businesses return to their pre- “It is a very small store square- during last month’s devastating pandemic behaviors, whether by dint footage wise, so there’s no way to winter storm. of vaccinations, fatigue after a year of safely distance from other people,” “It’s hard to be told that all Sunday, April 11th | 8PM lockdowns or, as is the case in Texas, said one member of the Orthodox the good work we have done is executive fi at. In the absence of state community in Dallas, who asked not meaningless because of our original At this important event, during this regulations, people like the owners to be named because of the small size position on masks,” she said. unprecedented year, we will show gratitude of Kosher Palate are left to set their of the Orthodox community. “We She also said Kosher Palate might to our educators who have stepped up and own policies — and in a place like want to support them, but we also still end its masks-required policy given so much love and care to every student Dallas, where political views span want to know that we’re going to be after Passover. As time goes on, the full spectrum and masks have safe.” Goldfeder said, she believes more at Levine. This year, we recognize what is most become a particularly partisan issue, In a place like Dallas, a largely people will be comfortable shopping important in life: our health, our friends, our all decisions have detractors. Democratic-leaning city in a red in stores where masks are not family and our Levine community. “There’s three sides to the story,” state, political opinion within required, especially as more people Miriam Goldfeder, who co-owns the Jewish community spans the are vaccinated. We hope you can join us! the store with her husband, told the spectrum, turning masks into a “Eventually the minority is going Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “We’re sometimes radioactive partisan to be the people with the masks,” Register today at trying to be sensitive to the people issue. Just last week, the Dallas Jewish she said. “It’s going to take time for www.levineacademy.org/gala who are ready to tear off their masks, Conservatives political advocacy the shift to happen, and we will at the same time try to be sensitive group announced it would co-host keep monitoring the situation as it to the people who want to keep their a party to celebrate the reopening progresses.” masks on forever, and then there’s Gina Tolmas is passionate about many things: her family, her synagogue (Tiferet Israel), her work (GST people in the middle who are not Interiors, Ltd.) and her community. Several years ago, she founded Mitzvah of the Month, a small group quite sure where they’re holding yet.” Community Spotlight For Kosher Palate, the Passover of women who pick an organization each month to support with chesed. Among the organizations holiday starting this month added supported are Attitudes and Attire, Jewish Family Service Food Pantry, Meals on Wheels, NonPareil an unusual wrinkle to the mask Institute, Operation Kindness, Parkinson Voice Project, Ronald McDonald House, Shared Housing Center decision: It’s the busiest time of year and Task Force Dagger. Gina is the wife of Alan; before their daughters, Sheina and Cara, made aliyah, for the store, when many people who the family enjoyed volunteering together at Tiferet Israel’s Kosher Chili Cook-off , Meals on Wheels, are not regular patrons might come Shared Housing, Parkinson’s Voice Project, Buckner International, Ronald McDonald House and putting to shop for special ingredients. together care packages for the armed forces overseas. Tolmas has held numerous leadership posts at At the beginning of the pandemic, Tiferet including Sisterhood co-president and her current board role as vice president of fundraising. “I virtually all Dallas synagogues closed am passionate about doing what we can for those that are less fortunate than we are. We should not their doors. But as time went on, most Gina Tolmas only do what we can for our Jewish community, but also outside of our community. As Jews, we should Orthodox synagogues began holding set an example of doing good in the general community.” services with safety precautions in place, as has been the case across the country. Few if any non-Orthodox synagogues in the city have resumed holding regular in-person activities. During the leadup to Passover, SERVING THE BANKING NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY FOR OVER 35 YEARS Jews of all denominations make their way to Kosher Palate. 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In February, when Texans were hit with a brutal winter storm including snow and freezing temperatures, along with a catastrophic loss of power and drinking water, Shearith Israel looked for ways to help not just congregants, but fellow Dallas residents in need. Husband and wife congregants, Jeff Wolf and Colleen O’Connor, reached out to Rabbi Ari Sunshine. Jeff said, “Colleen and I were very fortunate and thankful to have had electricity and water during the ice storm. We felt very blessed, and our thoughts turned to those less Photo: Submitted The North Texas Food Bank received $15,400 from Shearith Israel’s Winter Storm fortunate.” The couple worked Relief Fund. with Rabbi Sunshine to start SIGNIFICANT DEMAND: the Shearith Israel Winter by Shearith Israel came at just the food supply chain, we Relief Fund. Jeff added, “Rabbi the right moment. We were able quickly mobilized to redistribute HOMES FOR Sunshine was instrumental in to help families recovering from truckloads of fresh food waylaid facilitating the drive.” burst pipes and in need of a by the winter storm to agencies, MOTIVATED Jewish Family Service of warm, dry place to stay. Family so that they were able to safely Greater Dallas (JFS) and The needs averaged around $1,000 get into the hands of those who BUYERS North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) each, so this gift immediately are hungry. Shearith’s funds The Key Team has an abundance of buyers were designated as beneficiaries. impacted 15 families who had helped us meet the needs of Ultimately, the fund raised no other means of support. For Texas residents.” actively searching for homes around Dallas. If $30,800, which was split evenly these families, FEMA was only a At the Shearith Israel Purim you are interested in taking advantage of this between the two nonprofits. distant possibility. Celebration, Rabbi Sunshine told Cathy Barker, JFS CEO, said, “Shearith’s vision to raise the congregation the final total demanding market and live within one of these “The winter storm was just one funds and to help us respond raised and said, “Our Shearith zip codes, please contact us. crisis too much for so many of when all we could do was put Family truly fulfilled the Jewish the families we serve. It was their one foot in front of the other, value of matanot l’evyonim by 75230 breaking point. As an agency meant so much to us.” contributing to this emergency already challenged to raise the Zahra Perez, relationship effort to support these two vital support needed to help families manager at The North Texas organizations in our Jewish and 75229 through the pandemic, having Food Bank, extended her larger community.” this additional disaster just appreciation and gratitude for 75220 made things that much harder. their gift of $15,400, adding that Julie Carpenter is communications director “The gift of $15,400 raised “when the weather impacted at Shearith Israel. 75225 MARCH 21-26 75254 75248 We Help YOU STAY Wellthy. 75252 75093 75287 75214

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By Deb Silverthorn A&A Optical Company, the dream and reality of three generations of the Liener family, is celebrating 50 years of framing better eyesight around the world. Arriving in Dallas in 1967, Alexander Liener of blessed memory moved three months ahead of his family to work for another optical company. Once he realized that things would work out in Texas, he sent for his wife, Agnes, and children, and the future began. “My husband said, ‘If we’re going to work this hard, we’re going to do it for ourselves,’” Photo: Courtesy A&A Optical said Agnes Liener. They started From left, Alan and Audree Meyer, Benjamin, Sarah, Liz, Agnes, Robert, Alexander (z”l) and Aaron Liener at Sarah’s May 2014 bat mitzvah planning for their own company, which came to fruition in 1971. like her husband, was born in Immigrant Aid Society, now partnership, in every way, before in Carrollton. The company “He was on the road and I worked Hungary and brought to the HIAS. The two, who met on a his passing in 2018. provides 10 eyewear collections in the office,” said Agnes. She, United States by the Hebrew blind date and were married 12 A&A Optical now has 65 — for children and adults weeks later, enjoyed 60 years of employees and headquarters — to independent eyecare professionals, optometrists, PORTABLE OXYGEN MACHINE ophthalmologists and eyecare As you tell the story of the Exodus this Pesach, retailers throughout Canada, remember that God freed the Jews from slavery the Caribbean, Latin America, WANTED TO BUY in Egypt, giving us each the responsibility to do Mexico, South America and the good in this world. United States. IF YOU HAVE A PORTABLE Robert Liener, who remembers Hadassah believes that when we empower making road trips with his father women they can heal the world. OXYGEN MACHINE TO SELL when he was 6, joined the family business full time, in 1981, just PLEASE CALL 972-233-2981 HADASSAH, THE POWER weeks before his senior year at OF WOMEN WHO DO the University of Texas was to begin. Working alongside his parents, and now his son, Aaron, The Dallas Chapter of Hadassah Granite • Marble • bronze he couldn’t be prouder. wishes you a Passover filled with joy! 8921 C.F. HAWN FREEWAY, “I’ve always loved the DALLAS, TEXAS 75217 JOIN US in our mission to connect challenges every day — new sales (214) 398-4459 and empower Jewish women to issues, new design concepts and new customer issues — always Fax: (214) 398-6672 effect change. something new to do, to learn DON SPRADLING, PRESIDENT and to accomplish,” said Robert. HOME: (972) 222-0672 “This many years later, the GARY SPRADLING, VICE PRESIDENT business is the same and different 214.691.1948 — especially this last year,” said [email protected] WE SUPPORT ISRAEL! Robert. “In-person visits are

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in honor of Rabbi Yitzchak Cohen for over 50 years of service and leadership to the Greater Dallas Jewish Community Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 7:00 PM

Photo: Deb Silverthorn Join Congregation Nishmat Am to celebrate the ‘Magic of Yitz’ Robert Liener, left, with his parents Agnes and Alexander, circa 2007, began taking road trips with his father as a young in a spectacular virtual gala of stories, music, and memories. child. This May, he’ll celebrate 40 years with A&A Optical, the company his parents founded, now 50 years strong. 50YEARSWITHYITZ.COM different, and conventions and is the priority to connect and online, whether it is calling in, expos have disappeared, but relate to customers, Robert said. faxing in, or pushing orders or call 972-618-2200 thank God the business hasn’t And Aaron also maintains that through now on a cellphone, it’s suffered. We just keep putting philosophy. all the same.” Include your photos and reminiscences about Rabbi Cohen in resources into whatever is ‘next’ “I’m finding customers, and In addition to Robert, the virtual Jubilee Gala and in the published tribute book. to keep us strong. Fifty years is a making friends with them, in Agnes and Alex are parents of Help us meet our Challenge Match of $25,000. Each dollar huge milestone and my goal is to cities I’ve never heard of. It’s a Tova Klein (Rabbi Lazer), of donated will be matched by our donor. have A&A celebrate another 50.” big world and lots has changed Los Angeles, California. Both Register soon, both off ers expire on March 31! The three generations but never the voice of my Papa Robert and Tova went to Yavneh appreciate the lessons they’ve and Mama reminding me of Academy. Through the years, the learned from one another over the value of relationships,” said family has found their Jewish five decades. For Agnes, the Aaron, who is now working homes at congregations Shearith most important thing she and in many areas of the business Israel, Tiferet Israel and Shaare her husband believed was in including client visits to Alaska Tefilla. The children of Robert creating relationships with their three times a year and East Texas and Liz Liener, Aaron, Benjamin customers. When he traveled, almost monthly. “Going above and Sarah, are Akiba Academy Alex was often invited to stay at and beyond is about maintaining graduates. customers’ homes, rather than a small family business feel while “Alex and I came from a hotels. growing all the time. different country, with hard starts Despite the many changes in “Whether circling prospects to life, but we dreamed for the commerce, what hasn’t changed on a paper map, or finding them stars,” said Agnes, “and we did it!” 8 | March 11, 2021 AROUND THE TOWN Volunteers feed MedStar team members

On Wednesday, March 3, workers at MedStar Mobile Healthcare on Alta Mere were thanked for their efforts during the winter storm with a home- cooked dinner prepared by members of the Fort Worth Chapter of B’nai B’rith, a group dedicated to improving the quality of life in the community. They were joined at the event by new Fort Worth Chief of Police Neil Noakes and MedStar Chairman of the Board Dr. Brian Byrd. MedStar is the emergency/ non-emergency ambulance service providing mobile B’nai B’rith volunteers, MedStar team, Fort Worth Chief of Police Neil Noakes, Dr. healthcare to Fort Worth and Brian Byrd, chairman of the MedStar Board together when the B’nai B’rith Isadore Garsek Lodge delivered home-cooked meals to MedStar staff ers March 3, 2021. other surrounding cities. From left, Fort Worth Chief of Police Neil Noakes; Ken Simpson, MedStar Interim Fourteen volunteers from the CEO; Dr. Brian Byrd, MedStar chairman of the board; and Alex Nason, B’nai B’rith board president Fort Worth lodge provided a roast chicken dinner, homemade mashed potatoes, salad and cookies. Chief Transformation Officer Matt Zavadsky said, “It is rare for a group like B’nai B’rith to be so generous as to provide a meal for our frontline staff in their own headquarters as they are coming on and off duty.” The Lodge brought enough food to feed 70 EMTs, paramedics, emergency medical Photos: Courtesy Jim Stanton dispatchers, administrative, B’nai B’rith Board President Alex Nason thanks MedStar team for their eff orts. logistics, support personnel and administration for two evening neighbors,” said Alex Nason, The idea to feed the Medstar dinners. president of the Isadore Garsek workers came from Alex Nason. Previously B’nai B’rith B’nai B’rith Lodge. He noted that When Nason’s wife, Sofia, was volunteers showed up with “many put their health at risk to feeling ill, but didn’t want to food and words of appreciation keep us safe. Providing food for go to the hospital, Nason called for Fort Worth police officers, those who work so hard dealing MedStar. The first responders From left, Fort Worth Chief of Police Neil Nokes; Anna Brown, MedStar EMT; B’nai firefighters and ICU workers. with the pandemic and again stayed with the Nasons until B’rith Board President Alex Nason; and George Webster, MedStar paramedic “We very much appreciate showing their heroic work during Sofia was feeling better. the work our frontline workers the winter storm is just a small —Submitted by Jewish Federation and Jewish Family do every day to care for our way we can show our gratitude.” Jim Stanton Services of Fort Worth and Tarrant County need your assistance JFS is gathering information regarding the fi nancial impact of the recent storm on community members. This will allow JFS to determine if there are resources that can assist community members in mitigating fi nancial hardships created by the storm. If you have fi nancial needs due to the storm, please contact the JFS social worker, Lynell Bond Norman, at 817-528-4575 or [email protected]. March 11, 2021 | 9 KOSHER continued from p.2

Kosher Palate, has made some changes to his operation. “The kitchen has switched; we have a new fryer, a new grill, doubled-in- size pareve prep and display areas and everything else has been taken apart and scrubbed to the core,” he said. His barbecue pit koshering took 100 pounds of charcoal burning at 900 degrees and two days to cool. The butchering and ready-to-go foods at Kosher Palate are now all kosher for Passover, and outdoor seating experiences Photo: Courtesy Rabbi David Shawel Photo: Courtesy Kosher Palate are planned at the restaurant. Aaron Family Jewish Community Center Chef Eli Cohn-Wein (right), here with Dallas Kosher Palate owner Chaim Goldfeder and his team have stocked hundreds of Reflecting on the ease of Kosher’s Rabbi David Shawel, and his crew will prep nearly 1,700 kosher meals for the kosher for Passover items. The store and its restaurant, already turned over for seniors of the J and Jewish Family Service’s Kosher Home Delivered Meals program. the holiday, will be open for all but the first and last two days of Passover. Passover travel of years gone by, Kosher Palate’s “Dallas Passover said Miriam Goldfeder. “We had and prepackaged salads, with week. serving areas, both stores will Villa” is offering all-inclusive 27 pallets of product show up in treats and lots of items that take “Last year, for the first time close their kosher fresh meat and three-meal-a-day packages, for the middle of the storm, in the our customers back to their ever, so many people were alone, deli counters at 1 p.m. this Sunday, some or all of the holiday, with middle of Purim, but we just keep childhood,” said Amy Cohen, who and we were catering a Seder in a and open again at 6 a.m. on March store discounts and credit and going. It’s really easy to make this owns the store with her husband Box for one person,” said Simcha 17, with everything that is available waitstaff available. holiday much more than just meat Gadi. This includes “Papouchado owner Lowell Michelson. This kosher for Passover. “In-store, every day we’re and potatoes.” wine cookies, a biggie for Israelis year, he’s planning meals for one, “Pesach is a holiday that so opening boxes and it’s really Milk and Honey, whose aisles that is popular with anyone who two or four people. “For so many many people participate in, one exciting,” he said. “There’s so are filled year-round with food and tries them, and many others,” Amy people Pesach is the holiday, a that brings back the smells, the much new stuff from avocado oil household items, many from Israel, added. time to keep kosher, a time to eat tastes and everything reminiscent and a great variety of wines to baby will be closed during Passover but Simcha Catering & Event Jewish.” of the Seder tables and the holiday foods and ready-made desserts already has its shelves stocked with Design’s kitchen, housed at The Tom Thumb locations of our parents and grandparents,” and an 8-foot section of kitniyot. unique specialties for the holiday. Congregation Shaare Tefilla, will at Coit/Campbell and Preston/ said Shawel. “In Dallas, it’s so easy What I want in my house to make “We are stocking the shelves begin turning over that kitchen on Forest already have aisles of dry to make that happen and this year, the holiday easier and delicious is in these next couple of weeks Sunday. Simcha is offering meals goods for the holiday on display. more than ever, there is no reason to what I have found for the store,” with dairy items, with cheeses for Seders and throughout the To clean their kitchens, prep and make do; make memories instead.”

CHABAD OF PLANO/COLLIN COUNTY PRESENTS THE LEGACY OF ELIE WIESEL Through the eyes of his son Elisha Wiesel A STORY FOR OUR TIMES

SUNDAY MARCH 21, 2021 PROGRAM 7:30 P.M. Live Streamed from Chabad of Plano

GUEST OF HONOR ❘ MABRIE JACKSON

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By Steve Krant Special to the TJP 1 2 3 Since the earliest colonial days, American Jews have served in the military with honor and distinction. Yet, the baseless myth that Jews don’t serve persists even today. In the post-Civil War era — a war in which thousands of Jews fought and sacrifi ced on both sides — that antisemitic canard motivated a group of 63 Jewish veterans to form the Hebrew Union Veterans Association (HUVA) in New York City March 15, 1896 — 125 years ago. Eventually joining forces with their Southern counterparts, along with veterans of the Spanish- 4 5 American War, they became what is now known as the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America, standing tall as the nation’s oldest continuously operating veterans service organization with the motto: “A Jewish voice for Veterans; a Veteran’s voice for Jews.” A well-crafted 20-minute documentary, “Spirit, Courage and Conviction,” offers detail and context. Produced by JWV’s National Museum of American Jewish Military History (NMAJMH), it features Medal of Honor recipient Col. Jack Jacobs 7 and is available for online viewing at https://youtu.be/9vn7N2YjO4M. 6 The images on these pages highlight some of JWV’s achievements in helping to shape national policy, in calling attention to bigotry and totalitarianism, in support of the civil rights movement, in contributions to the World War effort, and much more. For example, JWV is credited with starting the fi rst letter-writing campaign in support of the GI Bill, which enabled thousands of returning World War II veterans to attend college and make a better life for themselves and their families. In 1963, JWV was brought holiday gifts and a friendly Past National Commander of 1. In 1965, Monroe Sheinberg, JWV’s 5. Former First Lady Eleanor the only veterans group to march smile on Christmas Day morning to JWV (2019-2020), Fort Worth’s national executive director, met with Roosevelt spoke at the 50th with Martin Luther King, Jr. in hospitalized veterans. Dr. Barry Schneider, congratulates African American religious leaders to anniversary celebration of the Washington and, in 1971, was fi rst On the larger stage, JWV “Jewish veterans throughout chart a course on civil rights. Jewish War Veterans at New York’s among veteran organizations to continues to make its voice our great nation, and especially 2. The fi rst membership badge of the Madison Square Garden in 1946. support withdrawing our troops heard in the halls of government members of the 11 active JWV Posts Hebrew Union Veterans Association 6. In 1948, President Harry S. Truman from Vietnam. through annual testimony by within the Department of Texas, (HUVA), the organization that later met with a JWV delegation that On the local front, JWV Posts the national commander before Arkansas, Louisiana & Oklahoma became JWV included Julius Klein, Harry in North Texas and throughout the the House and Senate Veterans (TALO). Although relatively small 3. In October 2009, then Post 755 Schaff er, and David Solomon to region promote Americanism and Affairs Committees, as well as with in numbers, Jewish servicemen commander Julian Haber (of blessed discuss the new State of Israel strive to help veterans regardless of active involvement in the Military and women — both active duty memory) and vice commander Rich 7. In June 1960, JWV Commander Morris await the return of troops to Bernard Abrams met with background by volunteering time Coalition of major veteran service and veterans — have much to DFW from Iraq and Afganistan along President Dwight D. Eisenhower. and resources. Poppy Drives and organizations. JWV has an eye to be proud of as our 125-year-old with Peter Levy and his son Brandon. Afterward, he told reporters the similar activities raise money for the future as well, with outreach organization pursues a second 4. JWV took part in the eight World president was instructing Attorney donations of nonmedical “quality and programs designed to attract century supporting the veteran War II loan campaigns organized by General Rogers to look into a new of life” furnishings and supplies to currently serving and recently community and fi ghting the good the Treasury Department. JWV also wave of “neo-Nazism” which the local VA facilities. Before COVID-19, separated military members — the fi ght against antisemitism and all raised $200,000 to purchase a fi ghter veterans claimed was manifest in JWV members and their families next generation of leadership. forms of discrimination.” plane nicknamed “Star of David.” the U.S. and in Washington. March 11, 2021 | 11 8 9

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The Department of TALO (Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana & Oklahoma) 8. The Jewish War Veterans was 9. JWV was among the sponsors of 10. In March 1933, JWV became founded March 15, 1896, in New the Destroyer Escort “Uriah P. the first group to call for a Dr. Harvey J. Bloom Post 256, Dallas York City as the Hebrew Union Levy” launched March 28, 1943. boycott against Nazi Germany. Veterans Association (HUVA) by Levy was a Naval Officer in the A parade led by JWV that same Martin Hochster Memorial Post 755, Ft. Worth Civil War veterans distressed by War of 1812 and became the U.S. month in New York City had an www.JWV.org [email protected] the commonly held belief that Navy’s first Jewish Commodore estimated million marchers and Jews avoided military service. (comparable to a 1-Star General). spectators. Dallas: Ft Worth: [email protected] Photos 1-2,4-10: Courtesy of the National Museum [email protected] 11. Presenting the Colors at a Kosher Chili Cook-off event: of American Jewish Military History (left to right) Harry Hermann & Jerry Kasten (both z”l) Photo 3: TJP Archive Facebook: @JWV256Dallas @JWVPost755 Photo 11: Steve Krant 12 | March 11, 2021 JEWISH HOMES & REAL ESTATE With Pesach around the corner, get your clean on

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By Tina Wasserman This year, again, those desserts. There is almost nothing The holiday of Passover memories sustain us as we that can’t be made in advance evokes many memories. These celebrate in pandemic mode. and frozen, if necessary. What I memories help make or break Last year it was all on Zoom or am trying to say is that leaving the continuity of the tradition. with the immediate family. This out the recipes you associate I remember the smells of the year perhaps a few people can with Passover will only make chicken soup wafting out of the celebrate together at distanced you sadder about the isolation of kitchen, the beautiful table that tables if the senior members our times. my mother set with all her best of the group have had their In the coming issues, I will china and linen, and the wooden vaccinations. What does remain include recipes that fit the bowl and old-world chopper that is the semblance of rituals and aforementioned requirements. were my first culinary tools for culinary traditions to help And all can be made in advance. making charoset. us feel connected to our past To get you started, here are When I was a child, I sat while looking forward to a time some of my tidbits to help you with my cousin Joel at the card when the house is crowded and prepare and two recipes that will table at the very end of the long the noise level has increased use the rest of that big piece of progression of tables, staring substantially. horseradish you bought! down past all our relatives to So, do you have to forgo your watch our grandfather conduct brisket and chicken soup if you Some of Tina’s Tidbits for the Seder. We couldn’t wait until are only cooking for yourself or Passover we were old enough to be closer two to four people? The answer to the head table. Little did we is absolutely not. Instead of • An easy way to “doctor” realize then that there was only buying a whole brisket, buy a gefilte fish is to remove the one cousin younger than us to 3- to 5-pound cut, cook it the jelly from the jar and reheat it accelerate our position and the same way you always do and with some fresh vegetables of only way to progress was through then, after it has been sliced, your choice. Strain the liquid life-altering vacancies. As we freeze 8-ounce portions of meat into a large bowl and place the got older, the place of the Seder in individual packets to eat later prepared gefilte fish in this and format of its order would in the holiday or in the future. liquid. Refrigerate covered until Photo: Tina Wasserman change as the venue moved from Do the same with your chicken ready to serve. Can be done days Horesradish Vodka has a nice kick which can be adjusted to one’s preference. our grandparents’ home to my soup and matzo balls. One effort in advance and individual pieces When keeping kosher for Pesach, make sure to use potato vodka. parents’ home, from long tables yields many portions for now or slices from a homemade loaf to one big table. and later. And don’t forgo your can be frozen for months and containers. microwave until very hot. Serve still taste delicious. • Make sure you make chicken directly from dish or place on a • If you do freeze the remainder soup with cut-up chicken. Using serving plate with gravy. of your fish, you might want a whole chicken will require • The best way of reheating to remove it from its container too much water if you add food in liquids or most foods, and pat it dry. This removes the “water to cover.” The first pot of besides bread-based dishes, excess water that accumulated chicken soup I made when I was is to use a microwave oven. around the loaf but the fish is married tasted like the chicken The microwaves agitate the still moist and delicious. ran through the water rapidly water molecules in the food to • Matzo balls may be made because I used a whole chicken reheat but do not dry out the in advance and stored in the instead of one that was cut up! food. Plus, placing in a warm refrigerator in water or bouillon. • I also recommend using a conventional oven when you are They may also be frozen quickly kosher chicken even if you do doing many tasks in the kitchen on a baking sheet and then not keep a kosher home. The and have guests can often lead to placed in a freezer bag. Make chicken soup made with kosher overcooked and dry foods. sure you remove air from the chicken is richer and you won’t • Green vegetables can be bag to prevent ice crystals from have to add bouillon or store- cooked in boiling salted water forming. bought stock to enhance its for a few minutes until their • When freezing in freezer flavor. Trust me, I made soup color is bright green and they are bags, whether it is matzo balls for a sick friend in her home partially cooked (3-4 minutes or mandelbread, the best way to using nonkosher chickens and for asparagus or green beans, 2-3 remove the air is to close the bag they disappeared in the water. for broccoli). Place immediately almost all the way, insert a straw Why you ask? Because many in a bowl of ice water and then into the small opening and suck commercial chickens are loaded drain. Store in the vegetable the air out of the bag. Remove with water to make them look drawer of your refrigerator the straw as you inhale the last plump and then, when you boil covered with layers of paper of the air in the bag. Your frozen them, they shrink considerably. towel, which will be slightly food will not taste “off” or have • The best way to get pot moistened by the drained, but freezer burn if you follow this roast ready for your dinner is damp, vegetables. When ready to technique. to make it at least a day, if not serve, either microwave until hot • Don’t have a lot of room in a week, in advance. Refrigerate and done or toss with a little oil your freezer? Try placing your or freeze the meat whole. Store and seasonings and roast at 400 soups and gravies in a freezer the gravy separately in a jar and degrees until done. Time will bag and slowly lay the bag down then refrigerate or freeze. If meat depend on the vegetable. as you seal it — no straw needed is frozen whole, defrost before • Fruit salad will last much as liquid will displace the air. slicing. Slice meat when it is cold longer if dressing or sugar is Doing this will allow you to and then place in a large glass added just before serving. The freeze many more items in a 13x9 dish. Cover with some of small space without using bulky the gravy. When ready to serve, see PASSOVER, p.20 SIMCHA March 11, 2021 | 15

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Jewish tennis all-Argentine fi nal against José star wins title Acasuso. “It was an emotional week. (JNS) Argentinian Jewish [It was] very different because in tennis player Diego Schwartzman the other weeks you don’t have won the Argentina Open on all your family and friends with Sunday and claimed his fi rst ATP you, the people who never see Tour title in his home country. you on court,” Schwartzman told The 28-year-old from Buenos ATPTour.com. “Having these moments, sharing this with them Photo: Lev Radin/Shutterstock Brisket · Roasted Chicken · Grilled Salmon · Aires beat fellow countryman Diego Schwartzman of Argentina cel- Francisco Cerundolo with a 6-1, and winning the title is a totally ebrates victory in round four of the Matzo Ball Soup · Kugel · Haroses · Gefi lte Fish 6-2 victory in one hour and 21 different feeling. It’s amazing. 2019 U.S. Open Championship against Oven Roasted Potatoes · And More minutes. The win is the fourth “Two years ago, I reached the Alexander Zverev of Germany at the fi nal here and lost,” he said. “I was Billie Jean King National Tennis Center 972-245-9033 [email protected] ATP Tour title for Schwartzman, in Queens,New York. who did not lose a single set last very unhappy, but two years later, I week in his four matches. have my revenge against Francisco, Schwartzman is the fi rstwho is a great player.” Argentine champion of the Schwartzman was the runner- Argentina Open since 2008, when up in the 2019 Argentine Open and David Nalbandian won in another the Cordoba Open in 2020. 16 | March 11, 2021 In their words . . . Passover: the meaning of matzo Dear Rabbi Fried, The matzo also reminds us of Columnists, opinion from the TJP The Jewish kids in our class were asked to give expla- another reason for gratitude. The nations on the symbolisms of the Passover rituals, and Jews were enslaved for 210 years I was given matzo to explain. Could you please help me and suffered not only physically, Rabbi Dr. out on this? but spiritually as well. Many of Kimberly B. them lost the religion of our an- Dear Kimberly, cestors, and began worshipping I’ll try to provide you with a few insights, and best of foreign idols, having given up the Twerski: a luck with your presentation! ASK THE hope for redemption after so long Eating matzo and refraining from leavened bread RABBI a time. They wanted to mix in and are defining features of the holiday of Passover. The become part of the local culture. Torah says “Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread By Rabbi The Kabbalists describe the truly great Jew (matzo)...you shall observe the Festival of Matzos; for Yerachmiel spiritual state of the Jews as having on this same day I brought you out of the land of Egypt; D. Fried sunk to the 49th level of impurity. I much appreciated Rabbi Da- affirmative, the therefore, you shall observe this day throughout all your Had they stayed in Egypt even one vid Glickman’s memories of the two shared a generations as a statute forever. In the first month, on extra moment, they would have now-late Rabbi Abraham J. Twer- laugh together. the 14th day of the month in the evening, you shall eat sunk to the 50th and final level of impurity, the spiri- ski — surely one of a kind in the Every lesson unleavened bread, until the 21st day of the month in the tual point of no return. So, G-d took them out at the vast annals of Jewish leadership. I was taught in evening.... They baked the dough that they took out of very last moment, with no time to tarry even to let their have some of my own — very dif- that logical, Egypt into unleavened cakes, for they could not be leav- bread rise, and therefore to commemorate our spiritual ferent — that I want to share with corrective, but ened, for they were driven from Egypt for they could legacy and future as Jews we eat the matzo. you here, as well. gentle fatherly not delay, nor had they made any provisions for them- One more point related to this is the following. The As I write, I have beside me IN MY manner that selves.” (Exodus 12:15-18, 39) chametz, or leavened bread, is different from the matzo copy of Rabbi Twerski’s 1985 MIND’S I became the One understanding of this mitzvah is that in an- in that it has risen above its natural self. The Kabbalists book, “Generation to Generation: son’s own. other verse the matzo is referred to in the Torah as the explain that this is alluding to our filling ourselves with Personal Recollections on a Cha- By Harriet And here “bread of affliction” or “poor man’s bread” (Deuter- our inflated egos, way beyond what we really are. sidic Legacy.” It’s my treasure now P. Gross is how he ap- onomy 16:3). It does not have the same enjoyable char- Haughtiness is the root of all bad character traits, and forever, because he signed it plied it: When acteristics of delicious, risen bread, and instead com- and usually is the beginning of the downfall of a per- to me personally. You see, I ben- a teenage addict came to him for memorates the slavery we were subjected to for over 200 son. Many powerful nations in world history began efited immensely when my son counseling, Twerski’s first action years in Egypt. their downfalls when they became haughty about their married into a family of this truly was often to offer his new patient A deeper understanding of this is that we ate the power and dominion. great human being’s friends. a candy bar, and encourage that bread of slavery until the time we were redeemed from The chametz signifies the haughtiness we need to That was in Pittsburgh, where it be eaten immediately, before Egypt. Until that moment, we were truly downtrodden, distance ourselves from. Eating matzo, the uninflated this truly great man, truly great they began to talk. When this powerless slaves. We contributed nothing to our re- “real self,” and thereby reminding ourselves of G-d’s doctor, truly great Jew, was prac- had been done, the young person demption; it was not a successful slave revolt, bravery or kindness to us and the humility it inspires, sparks the ticing psychiatry at Western State looked around for a wastebasket military cunning. Only G-d Himself redeemed us. The true Jewish persona. Psychiatric Hospital. I met a col- to throw the wrapper into, but matzo teaches us this lesson of humility and gratitude Best of luck bringing these messages to your class- league of his, a child psychiatrist saw none. When asked about it, to G-d, who performed this act of love and kindness to mates, and wishing a joyous, meaningful and memo- named Joan Ammer, on our first the rabbi’s response was simple: us; we couldn’t have done it without Him. rable Passover holiday to you and all the readers! day in college; we have been close “Eat it!” And when the startled friends ever since. How very lucky adolescent asked “What? Why?” my own life has been! the response was simply this: “It In his book, Rabbi Twerski re- will be better for you than the Lots of questions for Passover veals the patient wisdom and un- junk you’re used to ingesting!” derstanding of his beloved father Logic, tailored to perfection for Dear Families, 4. From the Torah through true stories. This is my those who received it, was this Passover is coming and hopefully you are already favorite: As a young boy, Abra- rabbi’s hallmark. shopping and cleaning! Last year we had to rethink • In Genesis, what is Abra- ham learned to play chess, and From my friend Joan, I learned how to do Passover, and now this year you can find ham warned? became very good at it. Visiting how Lutherans welcome Christ- so many suggestions online for ways to enhance • The Book of Exodus begins, rabbis often stayed at the Twerski mas by singing a little-known your Zoomed Seders! Start gathering ideas for fun. “There arose a Pharaoh who home, and one of them asked the carol called “The Birthday of a The hope of the Seder is that we will tell the story knew not Joseph.” What does boy to play chess with him. It was King.” From my son’s in-laws and and even learn something new! Here are a slew of this mean? a minor holiday, and Abraham Rabbi Twerski, I learned of a small Passover Questions — some trivia, some for deeper SHALOM FROM THE didn’t know what to do: He didn’t synagogue where the descendants thinking. If you need answers, let me know and if SHABBAT LADY 5. The plagues think a game was appropriate, but of priests blessed the congrega- you use the questions at your Seder, let me know. it was a rabbi who had challenged tion in complete anonymity, with By Laura • Besides the 10th plague, him. So he took the challenge… feet bare, their heads and faces 1. Moses’ family Seymour which would you choose as the Afterward, he was summoned and upper bodies completely cov- worst one? Why? into his father’s office and asked ered by tallitot. The best lessons • Can you name Moses’ mother and father? • After each plague, Pharaoh would not let the why he had chosen to play a game are simple and taught simply, re- • Who were Moses’ brother and sister? people go — it says that he had a “hard heart.” What on a holiday, and of course he quiring little explanation. is a “hard heart”? answered that it was at the invi- I also share Rabbi Glickman’s 2. Passover food tation of a rabbi; how could he memories of Rabbi Twerski’s Dal- 6. Pre-Passover refuse? His father scolded him las visit, and especially his pow- • What does every cook worry about? gently, but with reasoned under- erful message to Jewish women • What do you need to eat lots of during Passover? • Why do you need a candle, feather and wooden standing, suggesting that the next that shalom bayit — peace in the spoon? time something similar came up, home — in no way means that 3. The Seder plate • What is made in exactly 18 minutes? Abraham should politely refuse, wives must suffer in silence at and then dismissed him. But as the bidding and hands of abusive • What does the bone represent? the boy walked toward the door, husbands. I think of my Lutheran • What are the basic items in charoset and what his father called out: “Did you de- friend’s song of a birth, and of the else can you add? see SEYMOUR, p.18 feat him?” When the answer was death of a sort of Jewish “king” … In their words . . . March 11, 2021 | 17 EDITORIAL Gov. Abbott’s misguided decision on masks

Public service is a privilege, not a right. To in the Texas Medical Center. said State Representative James Talarico the outbreak. History teaches us that viruses serve at the highest levels of leadership in Texas Dr. Peter Hotez serves as dean of the (D-Williamson). are cunning in their capacity to fell even the state government, or in the federal government, National School of Tropical Health at Baylor In his capacity as governor of Texas, healthy. Now, as vaccines are being distributed, carries with it the responsibility to act for the College of Medicine. Before the governor lifted Abbott is vested with broad powers during the nation and world’s best scientists are health, safety and welfare of the public. the mask mandate, Dr. Hotez cautioned that it an epidemic under the Texas Disaster Act of wrestling with how to combat mutations and Sadly, last week, Governor Greg Abbott should remain. 1975. During emergencies, the law provides variations of the coronavirus. failed in fulfilling his responsibility to “We’re finally starting to accelerate that the governor may issue executive orders, In Judaism, the preservation of life protect the citizens from the coronavirus vaccinations,” Dr. Hotez told the Chronicle. proclamations and regulations that have the supersedes all other religious commandments. epidemic when he ordered the end of Texas’ “I would recommend holding off on the full force and effect of Texas law. The governor The Talmud references Leviticus 18:5 mask mandate. The governor also erred by restrictions until we really gear up and vaccinate has the power to suspend provisions of state when it states: “You shall therefore keep my prematurely authorizing all businesses to a higher percentage of the population.” laws regulating how the state does business statutes…which if a man do, he shall live reopen at 100% without restrictions. “This is definitely not the time to be doing and may order a state agency to comply with by them.” The great rabbis taught that the The Houston Chronicle, in a searing this,” Dr. Hotez told MSNBC. “We are all his mandates. teaching should include “That you shall live editorial, minced no words in its headline anticipating another major wave,” he said. Before the coronavirus outbreak in January by them, and not that he shall die by them.” above an incisive editorial: “Ending COVID The New York Times’ tabulation of 2020, America’s last experience with such a (Babylonian Talmud, Yoma 85b) restrictions, Abbott plays politics with Texans’ Texas’ coronavirus statistics depicted a bleak vast epidemic was the great influenza outbreak As Jews, we are commanded to disregard lives.” picture of our state’s progress in vaccinating that began in 1918. As John M. Barry recounts a law that conflicts with life or health. “It is As he announced issuance of his ukase its population of approximately 29 million in his brilliant history of that time, “The Great a religious precept to desecrate the Sabbath ending COVID restrictions, Abbott provided Texans. The Times’ statistics reflect that as of Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest for any person afflicted with an illness that his rationale for doing so. last Monday, approximately 15.2% of the state’s Plague in History,” a conservative estimate of may prove dangerous; he who is zealous is “It is clear from the recoveries, from the population has had one dose of the Moderna or people who died in that debacle is 50 million. praiseworthy while he who asks no questions vaccinations, from the reduced hospitalizations Pfizer vaccine, and 8.2% have been inoculated Correlating the death toll from the 1918 sheds blood.” (Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim and from the safe practices that Texans are with two doses of a vaccine. Millions of Texans epidemic equates to 150 million deaths today. 328:2) using, that mandates are no longer needed,” he remain to be vaccinated. As Barry’s book notes, an individual city or Civil authorities like Governor Abbott may told a Lubbock audience. President Joe Biden recently visited Houston state’s decision to ignore health risks can yield deign to relax safeguards for the public’s health. Though he ended the statewide mask to learn how the nation’s fifth largest city is devastating consequences. As individuals, each of us has the power to use requirement, he suggested that individual coping with the virus. The president called A Liberty Bond Parade was held in the greatest care as we live our lives, which are Texans are shouldered with the responsibility Abbott’s decision a “big mistake.” “Masks Philadelphia on Sept. 28, 1918, over the gifts from Hashem. of keeping the Lone Star State safe for the make a difference,” he added. objections of doctors, scientists and public Let us proudly wear our masks, practice remainder of the pandemic. “The last thing you need is Neanderthal health experts. Despite warnings, Dr. Wilmer social distancing, regularly wash our hands “Removing state mandates does not end thinking that, in the meantime, everything is Krusen, head of Philadelphia’s Department and take pride and in protecting ourselves, our personal responsibility when it comes to caring fine, take off your mask,” said the president. of Health and Public Charities, authorized families and our communities. We need not for family, friends, and the community,” said a “It’s critical that we follow the science. Wear a an event without restrictions. The parade was follow the governor’s unwise policies. We can statement released by his press secretary. mask and stay socially distanced.” over 2 miles long. Several hundred thousand and must do better. America and Texas have Regrettably, the governor did not consult Abbott has been harshly criticized. Philadelphians attended. made great strides in the struggle with the with Texas’ leading medical experts on the “The rush to be the first state to lift their Within days of the event, the city’s hospitals coronavirus. The battle remains to be won. coronavirus before making his decision, mask mandate, to be the first state to open were overwhelmed with the stricken. By Oct. 5 though it would have been easy for him 100%, feels to me like it’s less motivated by of that year, the flu had infected approximately A version of this editorial appeared in the March 11, 2021, edi- to avail himself of some of America’s best public health and science and more motivated 75,000 citizens. In the single week ending on tion of the Jewish Herald-Voice in Houston. Reprinted with epidemiologists who live in Houston and work on grabbing headlines and attention,” Oct. 19, 1918, 4,597 Philadelphians died from permission. One year later: reentering our sacred spaces

This week, as we mark one year for the safety and well- of Exodus. Two weeks about that interpretation is that physical aspect of worship would since many of our shuls, schools being of our loved ones, ago, we were handed it sets up an incredibly powerful be an object of true divinity, not and community centers first shut and, tragically, those the blueprints for the and insightful paradox. After idolatry. their doors as the COVID-19 crisis fears were well founded. Tabernacle. This week we all, this is no ordinary work. To As we anxiously anticipate began to escalate in the United But I count myself bring the abstract into the contrary, the building of the the return to our own sacred States, it’s hard not to shake your among the many Jewish reality as, piece by piece, Tabernacle is an extraordinary spaces, let’s take some time to ask head in disbelief at the terror of professionals whose God’s dwelling place on effort to build the structure that ourselves how many sacred cows those early days of the pandemic. anxiety about the future D’VAR earth is assembled. And will serve as the most hallowed we found ways to live without I remember how quickly panic has been transformed yet, at the beginning of places in the Israelite camp. over these past 12 months. And set in, as we contemplated not into excitement and TORAH of Parashat Vayakhel, But while the description of while there can be no doubt just the danger of the virus, anticipation at the we are commanded to the tabernacle is filled with the that Jewish communities need By Rabbi Adam but also the toll it would take opportunities ahead of construct not sacred presence of the finest of materials, sacred gathering places, it’s worth Roffman on our Jewish institutions. us — opportunities to space, but sacred time. Shabbat is made sacred by what is noting that the thing we were so Doomsday prognostications soon evolve and grow, to Parashat God reminds us of our absent and what fills that absence afraid of — losing our ability to followed. Prominent Jewish embrace new ways of Vayakhel-Pikudei obligation to observe — family, community, study and be physically present — turned leaders predicted a future of thinking and acting Shabbat by setting aside prayer. into an unexpected lesson in what forced closures and mergers. Jewishly and, ironically, to create the seventh day as a day without Why go to all that trouble to holiness can emerge from being And while, for some, these a community that is more engaged melacha, without labor. construct this gleaming physical spatially absent, but spiritually painful predictions have come and more connected than it was Our rabbis ingeniously structure, if what is truly holy is present for each other, and for true — there have been job before this crisis began. defined melacha as the very same time, not space? In the previous God, in ways we could never have losses and budget cuts — our That irony lies at the heart of actions necessary to build the parashah, we are given the imagined. Jewish institutional landscape this week’s parashah, Vayakhel- Tabernacle. To be sure, these 39 answer. Because, we humans here in Dallas remains largely Pikudei, the Torah’s second categories of prohibited labor need our sacred cows (or calves). Rabbi Adam Roffman has served Congrega- unchanged. extended discourse on building are also a kind of temporal By commanding us to build the tion Shearith Israel since 2013. He is a member We had reason to be fearful sacred space at the end of the Book blueprint. But what’s so brilliant Tabernacle, God insured that the of the Rabbinic Association of Greater Dallas. 18 | March 11, 2021 OBITUARY

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SEYMOUR • Why do some people put an or- • Who from the Pharaoh’s family 15. What would you have taken 17. What miracles have you seen? with you out of Egypt? continued from p.16 ange on the Seder plate? left with Moses? • Why do some people put a light • How many Israelites left Egypt? • The parting of the Red Sea was bulb on the Seder plate? • What will you pack to keep you an amazing miracle. Do you believe in 7. Women in the story 13. Crossing the Red Sea comfortable? miracles? 10. Songs • What will you pack to eat? • What miracles have you seen? • Who was Moses’ wife? Who was • Who had to show faith and step • What will you pack for fun? her father? • What does dayenu mean? into the sea first so that it would open? • What memories will you take? 18. Have you ever taken a leap • Who were the midwives who let • Go to the internet and Google • When the Israelites reached the of faith? the Hebrew babies live? “Passover Songs” — what amazing other side, what musical instrument 16. What does it mean to be new songs can you find for your Seder? did Miriam play as she sang? free? • Nachshon took a leap when he 8. The Haggadah walked into the sea — what or who 11. The end of the Seder 14. The number four • If you are free, does that mean no gave him that courage? • What does the word “Seder” rules? What rules do we need? • Describe a time when you had to mean? Why is that important? • Who do we open the door for? • Who is supposed to ask the Four • Every year we read that each of do something you were scared to do, • What does afikomen mean? Questions? us should think of ourselves as having but you did it anyway. 9. Something different • Name the Four Sons and tell left Egypt. Why is it so important to • Why is it so hard to try something 12. Leaving Egypt which one you are most like. remember? new? Jubilee Gala

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product is heavy and dry. or to taste can fit properly in the bowl. meal time to absorb the liquid so PASSOVER • 1 tablespoon orange juice that the mixture does not get thick. continued from p.14 Orange Scented Horseradish • Matzo meal (optional) 4. Add the remaining ingredients and process, pulsing on and off Serve with gefilte fish or any sugar macerates the fruit and I originally created this recipe 1. Peel and cut the horseradish root until you get the consistency you cooked meats. causes it to give up much of its to go with my Spanish Gefilte into 5 or 6 pieces. desire. liquid, making your salad soggy Fish loaf but it tastes great on Yield: About 1¹/₃ cups instead of sweet. many different dishes. 2. Grate the horseradish root using 5. Carefully remove the lid from the The most important Passover • 2 ounces fresh horseradish root the fine grating disk on your food bowl (fumes are very strong) and Tina’s Tidbits: tidbit is to allow matzo meal time • 4 to 5 tablespoons red wine processor. check seasonings. to absorb some of the moisture vinegar (or apple cider vinegar) • When grating any citrus fruit for in a recipe. A big mistake is • 1 teaspoon fine salt 3. Remove the grating disk and add 6. If the mixture tastes good but its zest, be careful not to grate into to judge the mixture without • 1 teaspoon grated orange rind the metal blade to your work bowl. is too watery, a teaspoon or so of the white part of the peel. This is waiting. More matzo meal gets (grated rind of ½ a 4-inch orange) No need to remove the grated matzo meal may be added but this bitter and has no flavor. Flavor is in added and then the finished • 1 tablespoon wildflower honey horseradish as long as the blade is not traditional. Allow the matzo the oils of the colored part of the peel.

Horseradish-Infused Vodka

I created this recipe after a trip to Poland. A restaurant in Warsaw specializes in pairing flavored vodkas with different dishes. When I tasted the horseradish vodka, I knew I had to recreate it at home. And it is great served with the gefilte fish or as a base for a bloody mary. I keep it in the freezer and it lasts for as long as it takes for you to drink it…even years!

• 750 ml of vodka • ¼ cup shredded peeled horseradish root

1. Peel part of the long end of the horseradish root (save the bulbous top for a Seder plate). Rinse and pat dry.

2. Using a vegetable peeler, peel the horseradish into 2-inch lengths. Place in a measuring cup until you have ¼ cup.

3. Place the shredded horseradish in the bottle, reseal and place in the refrigerator until needed. Or place in the freezer after a week.

Tina’s Tidbits:

• If following the Ashkenazi minhag, custom, for Passover, make sure the vodka is potato-based to conform to the rules about kitniot.

• ¼ cup gives the vodka a good kick but if you like your foods hotter, then more shredded horseradish can be added.