PASSOVER ISSUE Kehilath Jeshurun Bulletin

Volume LXVIII Number 5 March 19, 1999 2 Nisan 5759

ANNUAL SYNAGOGUE SHABBATON March 26 and 27 Dinner and Lunch (See Page 2) Friday Evening: “THE COLLEGE CAMPUS: SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE A LABORATORY FOR THE RICHARD JOEL JEWISH FUTURE” National Director of Hillel

Saturday Morning: SPONSORED BY THE “JEWISH RENAISSANCE: APRIL-LAUCHHEIMER FAMILY MORE THAN CONTINUITY” Richard M. Joel joined Hillel as its International Prior to joining Hillel, Mr. Joel served as the Director in 1988, and became the President of Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the Benjamin The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life upon its Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University, where he inception in 1993. Hillel afforded Mr. Joel the taught legal ethics. He also served as Director of opportunity to merge his personal interest in University Alumni Affairs at Yeshiva University, had reconnecting and engaging thousands of young Jews on extensive involvement in informal Jewish education, and campus in a positive and vibrant Jewish life, with was Assistant District Attorney in the Bronx. his professional expertise as an educator, administrator Kehilath Jeshurun is proud to welcome Richard Joel and advocate. to serve as our Scholar-In-Residence.

YOM HASHOAH SERVICE HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY Monday, April 12, 7:30 PM

FANYA HELLER Guest Speaker “Witness to the Holocaust”

The program will begin with a candle lighting indicate their participation.) Ma’ariv, readings for a ceremony by survivors and second, third, and fourth Holocaust Service, appropriate songs by the Ramaz generation participants. (Those who fit into these School Chorus and poems written for Yom Hashoah categories are urged to call the Synagogue Office at by students of the Ramaz School will complete 427-1000 to inform us of their history and to the evening. (See Page 3) Page 2 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN

RABBI JOSHUA LOOKSTEIN KJ SISTERHOOD TO DELIVER SHABBAT HAGADOL DRASHA On Shabbat HaGadol, Saturday Later Rabbinic literature, and “FLOWER afternoon, March 27, following specifically the Haggadah, reflect this ARRANGING” Mincha services, in the Main idea as well. The Drasha will explore Synagogue, Rabbi Joshua Lookstein the concept of community from legal will discuss the role that community and social perspectives, dealing with TUESDAY,APRIL 27 plays within Judaism. issues of unity, responsibility and 11:00 AM Pesach is the holiday that individuality, utilizing thought of celebrates the Jewish People’s exodus Nachmanides, Rav Soloveitchik and Lite Lunch will be served. from Egypt, but we would be remiss Abraham Joshua Heschel, among in not realizing that before the others. exodus, there was a ‘Jewish People.’ The entire community is invited to The exodus itself is the historical manifest itself by coming to the event that signified the birth of the lecture which will begin following Jews as a nation and as a community. mincha at 5:00 PM. THE JEWISH HERITAGE ANNUAL SYNAGOGUE SHABBATON FOR THE BLIND March 26-27, 1999 is pleased to annouce the Friday Dinner and Saturday Lunch availability of the The Shabbat Before Passover (No Cooking For You!) FREE Members: Non-Members: Adults $50 Adults $60 LARGE PRINT Children $35 Children $45 HEBREW/ENGLISH Deadline: Tuesday, March 23 at 12:00 Noon PASSOVER Space Permitting HAGGADAH OR BRAILLE Edition KEHILATH JESHURUN’S For the Visually Impaired 127th Annual Meeting FREE Wednesday, April 28, 1999 8:00 PM Mail or Fax your request accompanied by a note from ¾ Induction of New Members your medical doctor or eye ¾ Recognition of Anniversarians specialist confirming that you ¾ Volunteer of the Year Awards have a vision problem and need large print. ¾ Memorial to Departed Members ¾ President’s Review of the Year The Jewish Heritage for the Blind ¾ 1655 East 24th Street Election of Officers and Trustees Brooklyn, NY 11229 (Collation to Follow) Fax No. 718-338-0653

(Supply limited: One per family) ALL MEMBERS ARE INVITED AND URGED TO COME KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 3

YOM HASHOAH SERVICE KASHER-IN HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY SUNDAY, MARCH 28 MONDAY, APRIL 12, 7:30 PM Kehilath Jeshurun will sponsor GUEST SPEAKER its Kasher-In this year on Monday, March 28 between 9:00 AM and FANYA HELLER 1:00 PM. WITNESS TO THE HOLOCAUST Large sinks of boiling water will be available in the second floor Fanya Gottesfeld Heller was “WITNESS kitchen so that people can bring born in Skala, in eastern Poland in TO THE HOLOCAUST” their silver and metal utensils and 1924 and was raised in a traditional prepare them for Passover use. middle class Jewish family. Fanya Heller’s message A Word of Caution. Remember Despite starvation, disease, and that in order to kasher something constant danger of arrest and is universal: it is the story of for Passover, the item must first execution by the Nazis, she and her life over death, of love over be cleansed thoroughly and allowed family survived the Holocaust hatred. Through her book, to stand unused for at least 24 hours thanks to the courage and love of as a lecturer, and through before the actual kashering two Christian rescuers. She has procedures. related her wartime experiences in radio and TV appearances, her highly acclaimed book, Mrs. Heller has reached an Strange and Unexpected Love, A estimated 35 million people. MEZUZOT, TEFILIN Teenage Girl’s Holocaust She shares her Holocaust Memoirs. AND SHATNES Her book has become an experience in an authentic important tool for teaching about voice that bonds Because of the great interest in the ways in which human beings her instantly with her checking MEZUZOT, TEFILIN AND SHATNES, Kehilath respond to extreme conditions: audience. Responses from some with devotion and loyalty, Jeshurun will again have a second others with hatred and betrayal. her audiences indicate that round of checking this year. Times While Mrs. Heller’s story her message resonates with coincide with the Kasher-In and is grounded in her personal a very broad cross- Shmurah Matzah pickup on Sunday experience, it transcends individual section of our society, morning, March 28 between 9:00 and 1:00 PM. and group interests, aiming straight especially members of at the human heart and the Plan to have your items for concerns we all share. minority groups. testing ready at that time and come to the KJ lower lobby to avail yourself of these services. FORM FOR SALE OF CHAMETZ I, ______, KEHILATH JESHURUN ULLETIN do hereby authorize RABBI HASKEL LOOKSTEIN, of 125 East 85th Published eight times a year Street, City, State and County of New York, to sell, transfer and assign $15.00 Membership Dues of all Chometz of whatever kind and nature which I possess, or in which Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun I may have an interest, wherever situated, in my residence covers subscription cost. at:______or in 125 East 85th Street, my place of business at:______or in New York, NY 10028 any other place, without reservation and limitation. Phone (212 ) 427-1000, Ext. 262 If you plan to spend Passover in Israel or Europe, please check this box: £ USPS-292-0600-Second Class If you plan to spend Passover in another US time zone, please circle below: Postage paid at New York, NY Central Rocky Mountain Pacific POSTMASTER: Send Address Changes to: Signature______Date:______Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun 125 East 85th Street Please return to the Synagogue office by Wednesday, March 31, at 8:30 AM. New York, NY 10028 Page 4 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN

KJ BEGINNERS PROGRAM TO HOLD PASSOVER RELIEF — PASSOVER SEDER WE NEED YOUR GIFT NOW Under the leadership of Rabbi Joshua Lookstein, KJ will host a Dear Members of the KJ Community: 2. The Joint Passover Association Beginners Seder designed and planned THE FIRST ORDER OF - to which we give a major as a learning experience. It is intended BUSINESS FOLLOWING PURIM IS contribution every year. This is New for those wishing to learn and MA’OT CHITIM - Passover Relief. York City’s Jewish charity to help understand more about the content and Each year we make a special appeal poor Jews celebrate Pesach. meaning of a seder and how to conduct for the Benevolent Fund in advance of Government cutbacks in aid to the it properly. This special seder will be Passover to help us meet Jewish poor make the assistance of held on the first night of Passover, extraordinary needs. Some examples the JPA more crucial than ever. Wednesday evening, March 31. of these needs are as follows: 3. Many religious, educational The cost will be $65 per adult and 1. Poor people who come to our and social organizations in Israel — $45 per child. attention and who need special help. and some in America - which deserve Reservations can be made only by forwarding a check to the Synagogue For example: a former professor in the support, which desperately need such Office listing the names of those City University who suffered a support, and which look to us for help planning to attend. breakdown and is now homeless. We particularly at this season of the year. have been helping him for several We do not conduct appeals in our Branches & Blooms, Inc. years with ‘loans;’ a woman whose congregation for individuals or for husband abandoned her with five deserving institutions. Our 1203 Lexington Avenue New York, New York 10028 children and whom we have been Benevolent Fund is our community’s helping to support for more than way of supporting a variety of 212-288-4831 twelve years; a man who grew up in philanthropic causes — personal and We are proud to provide KJ’s this community, who has absolutely institutional. Please, therefore, SHAVUOT decorations no family except for us, and who is contribute generously now, taking in the Main Synagogue each year. now institutionalized — we provide into consideration that this one gift is him with all of his personal needs, in place of many potential appeals. including spending money; an Israeli As we take care of the first SHMURAH MATZOS scholar, whose work we have been responsibility listed in the Shulchan AVAILABLE AT KJ supporting for years, who now has to Arukh in the laws of Passover — The Shotzer hand matzos are marry off a second daughter suffering ma’ot chitim — we pray that we will under constant rabbinical from a serious case of Crohn’s all be blessed with a happy and kosher supervision from the wheat cutting disease. He has to pay for the entire Passover and a year of sustenance and until the packaging of the matzos. wedding himself. support for ourselves and for the They are renowned world wide for These are examples of people who entire Jewish people. being well baked and tasty. do not come to the attention of public The congregation is pleased to be charities. They depend on us and a few Very cordially yours, able to bring this service to our others for help throughout the year. HASKEL LOOKSTEIN community. The matzos are available at $12.00 per pound. They may be picked up at the WHAT TO DO WITH CHAMETZ synagogue during the Kasher-In on The best thing to do with March 28 between 9:00 AM and Sunday, March 28 between 9:00 AM chametz during Passover is not to & 1:00 PM. 1:00 PM or at any other time have it. All orders must be pre-paid and between now and Passover. We There are very many people in ordered by Wednesday, March 24 will then arrange for this food to be at noon. our city who cannot afford distributed to the non-Jewish to purchase adequate food for needy and hungry of our Please reserve _____ lbs. of shmura minimal sustenance. matzos at $12.00 per pound. Make check We, therefore, urge you to bring community. payable to the “KJ Special Projects Fund.” sealed packages, cans, jars, bottles Performing this act of chesed is Name:______and other containers of unopened an important means of expressing Address: ______food to KJ at the time of the the commandment to love thy Phone (day): ______Kasher-In on Sunday morning, neighbor as thyself. (evening):______KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 5

MEN’S CLUB THEATRE PARTY The Next THEODORE BIKEL WOMEN’S IN “THE GATHERING” TEFILLAH GROUP SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 7:00 PM Saturday, April 17 The 1999 KJ Men’s Club Theatre After the play, our group will PARSHAT Party will see Theodore Bikel star in meet with the cast, director, the Jewish Repertory Theatre’s playwright and possibly Bikel as TAZRIA-METZORAH production of “THE GATHERING’ well. This will be followed by a on Sunday evening, June 6 at 7:00 reception at the theatre. ROSH CHODESH IYAR PM. The theatre, Playhouse 91, is The cost of tickets is $35 each In the Etra Chapel located in our neighborhood at 306 payable to the KJ Men’s Club. East 91st Street. Bikel will play the Participants can be sponsors 9:15 AM lead role of the grandfather, a at $50 per ticket. Please order Holocaust survivor who comes to his through the Synagogue office grandson’s Bar Mitzvah. (427-1000).

THE GATHERING

The story of The Gathering is based upon the 1985 Bitburg incident when President Reagan caused an international uproar with his decision to visit Bitburg, Germany to lay a wreath at a military cemetery containing S.S. graves. Reagan’s act not only infuriated the world, but in The Gathering almost tears father Under the supervision of Midtown Kashruth Board and son apart. The father is a Holocaust survivor, and the son LENNY and MICHAEL is a recently appointed speech writer for President Reagan. The PARK EAST task of bridging generational conflict and saving the family is KOSHER BUTCHERS, INC. left to their youngest, Michael, on the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, STRICTLY KOSHER Take-Out Gourmet Cooked Foods and a young German security guard. 737-9800 1163 Madison Avenue (at 85th) New York, NY 10028

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(If using an considering the two, though, it seems connected to the exodus from Egypt. electric oven, turn the burners on the There is an interesting possible highest setting for one hour as well). that it is the Seder that best represents After this is done, cover the stovetop the holiday. After all, the purpose of side-note to this idea. The Torah with aluminum foil for the duration Passover is to remember the exodus commands us (as is quoted in the of Pesach. The inside oven should be from Egypt, and hence, the in depth Hagadah) to remember the exodus turned on to broil for one hour. If the oven is self-cleaning, go analysis of the Jewish People’s from Egypt every day of our lives. We fulfill that requirement by saying through one cycle. journey from slavery to freedom. Microwave ovens should be Cleaning the home, on the other the Shema, which makes reference to the exodus. However, in light of what cleaned, and not used for 24 hours, hand, appears to be just a preparation after which a bowl or cup containing for the Seder and the rest of the we now know, maybe we don’t need the Shema, because whose family a few ounces of water should be put holiday. However, the Torah begs to in and ‘cooked’ until the water is differ. “And Moses said to the doesn’t start cleaning for Passover the day after Passover ends? vaporized into steam. people, ‘Remember this day when Sinks should be cleaned with a you came out of Egypt, out of the cleaning solution, and not used for STEP #2: Holidays in Mirror Are house of bondage, that by the 24 hours, after which boiling water strength of hand did God bring you Closer Than They Appear should be poured on every area of the out of here and [therefore] nothing sink and its parts. leavened shall be eaten” (Exodus A Checklist of Cleaning Tips Dishwashers may be kashered for 13:3). Not only does the Seder CLOTHING. All pockets should Pesach after standing unused for represent the exodus, but the ridding 24 hours. They should be put through the home of Chametz itself, is be searched for food (i.e., sucking candies, wrappers, crumbs). three complete cycles, using soap in testimony to the exodus as well. the first one. Of course the verse begs the Men should remember to clear their question; why? What was, and is, so Tallis bags of any Chametz that Kashering Utensils might be kept there. important about not having leavened While it is preferable to have as ROOMS. All rooms where bread in one’s home, that makes its many utensils as possible specially Chametz may have entered must be removal such a focal point of reserved for use only on Pesach, many thoroughly cleaned. Passover? Rabbi Samson Raphael utensils used throughout the year may Hirsch answered this question by KITCHEN. Dishes and kitchen be kashered for use on Pesach. Items noting the puzzling directive that God utensils must be cleaned and stored that are ‘kasherable’ include: metal gave to the Jewish people while in away in such a manner that they utensils used for hot and cold, Egypt, that their consumption of the cannot be accidentally used during providing they are not difficult to Passover sacrifice had to include Pesach. It is good to either tape, or tie clean (i.e., a sieve, parts that are glued unleavened bread, Matzah. It seems shut, cabinets that contain things you together), and glass utensils that were strange that at a moment when their cannot use. Tables, shelves and used strictly for cold food. freedom was virtually guaranteed, countertops must be washed, and Items that may not be kashered they were told to eat the food that those that will be used on Pesach are: glassware that is used for most represented their slavery. On the must be covered for the duration cooking, earthenware, pottery, contrary, the directive should have of the holiday. Refrigerators should porcelain, pyrex, and chinaware. been to eat bread, cake, a Napoleon! be washed (shelves, walls and The easiest way to kasher utensils is Why unleavened bread? Rabbi compartments), and shelves and to bring them to the KJ Kasher-In Hirsch explains that God chose that compartments should be covered for (see page 3) where Rabbi Josh time to remind the Jewish People the duration of the holiday. Lookstein will supervise the that while they were ending their STEP #3: Bubble Bubble Boil the immersion of metal utensils in a servitude to Pharaoh, they were Trouble large sink of rapidly boiling water. beginning another type of servitude, Kashering Appliances It is also possible to kasher in the albeit entirely of a different nature, to privacy of your own home. The God. So Matzah was to be the food Gas ovens, both the stove-top and inside (racks as well), should be procedure for kashering is as KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 7 TIMELINETIMELINE follows: Metal utensils should be to be collected during the search. be disposed of before Pesach. thoroughly cleaned with a cleaning The pieces, though, should ideally be The best mode of authorizing the solution and then not used for 24 a conversation-starter regarding the rabbi to sell one’s Chametz is in hours. Small utensils such as Chametz that may have been in the person, allowing for a special form silverware or other cutlery should be particular room you are in. It is a of transaction to take place, called a immersed briefly in a large pot final opportunity to make sure every Kinyan Suddar, where the rabbi containing rapidly boiling water. If part of the home was cleaned. A hands a garment (i.e., handkerchief) the pot is very large, more than one Bracha is made immediately prior to to the authorizer as a visible piece may be immersed at a time. the search. While reciting the manifestation of contractual intent. Each piece should then be rinsed Bracha, one should have in mind the For those who will not see the rabbi, with cold water. annulment and burning of the a Sale of Chametz form (page 3) is Pots are kashered by bringing Chametz that will take place at points included. It is a written contract water in them to a boil and then after the search. appointing the rabbi as agent for the immersing a hot stone or iron such One is not supposed to talk until sale. If one will be in a different time that the water will overflow onto the the conclusion of the search. The zone than the rabbi for Pesach, that sides of the pot. Then rinse the pot in search should be by candlelight, must be indicated on the sale form as cold water. Items which came into preferably with the lights out, so that that will affect when the Chametz direct contact with Chametz, without the candle can be more effective. It is must be sold. The sale form must be the medium of water (e.g. a broiler, customary to use a wood spoon returned to the synagogue by 8:30 frying pan) may be kashered by (okay, not silvery) and a feather to Wednesday morning, March 31st. In heating them until they are literally help remove the pieces of bread. general, please allow one half hour ‘redhot’ or by placing them in a At the conclusion of the search a after Pesach, for the rabbi to buy self-cleaning oven during the self- declaration is made annulling the back your Chametz, before you clean cycle. Chametz that was missed in the begin to use it. Glass utensils should be cleaned cleaning and the search. You declare with a cleaning solution and then it of no value and of no owner. STEP #6: Do Not Try This At immersed in water (a bathtub works) Because the annulling statement is so Home! for three days, changing the water important, it should be said in a every 24 hours. language understood by all present. The Burning of Chametz The Chametz from the search should On Wednesday morning, STEP #4: By the Light . . . be wrapped-up and ready to burn in Chametz may not be eaten after 9:42, and the Silvery Spoon the morning (see schedule box, and and it must be disposed of by 10:42. The Search For Chametz step #6). The synagogue provides a large, In actuality, the search for contained, fire for this purpose. No STEP #5: Chametz for Sale! Bracha should be said, since the one Chametz is not its own Mitzvah, but Chametz for Sale! rather the first of three stages in said before the search applies to the disposing of the Chametz: The Sale of Chametz burning as well. Another statement 1) searching, 2) annulling and While the removal of Chametz of annulment is made, slightly more 3) burning. The proof is that the via the search will prevent someone inclusive than the previous one. Bracha that is said before the search from eating Chametz on Pesach, the speaks of the commandment to burn prohibition of owning Chametz STEP #7: Ready Set Cook the Chametz, not to search, as we would still exist due to the Chametz Eruv Tavshilin would have expected. We begin the stored away in closets and process by searching the home on cupboards. For this reason it has When Yom Tov leads directly into Tuesday night, soon after sunset become customary, on the morning Shabbat, as it does this year, one (see schedule box). before Pesach, for the rabbi of a must perform a special ritual It is preferable not to begin any community to sell to a non-Jew, all of accompanied by a Bracha, on Erev other task prior to the search, so as the Chametz belonging to Jews who Yom Tov to allow one to prepare not to risk forgetting to do it. It is authorize him to be their agent for food on Yom Tov for Shabbat. A customary, although not obligatory, this purpose. While this works for Matzah is taken along with food that to carefully place ten small pieces of most Chametz, pure Chametz, such was prepared before Yom Tov bread in different rooms of the house, as bread or cereal, should preferably (generally an egg), and the Bracha is Page 8 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN

made. The Bracha appears in most painstaking care with which we even when he asks the same question siddurim and in the beginning of the satisfy our children’s hunger for food, repeatedly and frequently. We must Haggadah. This year, the Erev to quenching their thirst for not answer him reprovingly and we Tavshilin is made on Wednesday, knowledge, thus providing them with must take care to answer him March 31. mental nourishment. Should we not, correctly, not to distort reality with then, exert ourselves to satisfy their fairy tales and foolish fantasies. Step #8: Ah Yes, I Remember inquiring souls? Should we not He may ask a question to which we It Well. examine, not recognize all that our do not know the answer, or the children come in contact with so that answer is one which he is unable to THE SEDER: AN EDUCATION we will be able to teach them and grasp, should not know or is not IN EDUCATION supply adequate answers to their generally known. Through the reply One of the most important aspects questions? we give him he should realize that of the holiday of Passover is the “Let us not imagine that when the there are limits to his childish specific relationship between parents child begins to attend school, understanding and limitations to the and children that the Seder highlights answering his questions will become human intellect in general. It is -- that of teacher to student. The word the province of the teacher, not the important for him to realize this, too. Haggadah itself comes from the parent. Let us, rather, enter the There are things we do not know. But verse in Exodus “And you shall tell school, where the child’s soul is we must not nourish his soul with (V’higadita) your child on that day nurtured. It is easy to identify those folly, nor let others do so. We should saying...” The Seder in its ideal form children who received answers at allow the child to stay near to us, and is a lesson, albeit informal, that home to their childish questions, who wherever we may be, create there a parents teach to their children. did not raise the question: ‘What is healthy atmosphere for his soul.” A hands-on class. Interestingly This?’ in vain, whose fathers and Nowhere is Rabbi Hirsch’s lesson enough, while the commandment was mothers chatted with their children, more obvious than at the Seder, an given to the parents to teach, the satisfied their thirst for knowledge evening dedicated to a seemingly inspiration comes from the children’s and properly cultivated their minds. endless number of questions and overwhelming desire to learn. The These are the fortunate ones! The answers, designed to be a microcosm following are the comments of Rabbi parents of these children derived of an ideal relationship between Samson Raphael Hirsch, of blessed satisfaction from the company of parent and child, one in which parents memory, on the Mah Nishtanah, the their children, and occupied the time understand that their children’s four questions: being their teachers and educators. education is not limited to school “Undoubtedly, the very first Whatever their sons and daughters hours, but on the contrary, is rooted in reaction of a newborn child to the are destined to be as adults, the best the home, a home in which Torah, sight of the world is: ‘What is this?’ and noblest in them will not have traditions and values are both learned The human spirit seeks to understand been acquired through their school, and lived. what is happening around it and the but through the education received in their parent’s company. STEP #9: Not Yet in the Clear question, ‘What is this?’ arises in the After Pesach child’s heart even before his mouth “It is also easy to identify those can articulate the words. If only we children whose parents lacked the According to Jewish Law, could read the expression in his eyes, patience or desire or sufficient Chametz that was owned by a Jew we could understand the query in his understanding to spend time with during Pesach may never be eaten by mind. Questioning sums up the entire their children. These children, too, a Jew. Therefore, it is preferable, that nature of the child’s soul, and only asked questions in their infancy, but after Pesach, one buys food from because his soul continues to ask when they received no answers, they establishments owned by non-Jews, incessantly, does the child learn so stopped asking, and became establishments owned by Jews who much in his first years. indifferent to objects and events. properly sold their Chametz before “Later, when the child’s mouth And so they developed other Pesach, or after a month (time that a can serve his soul and he continues to tendencies, very different from the store’s stock has been used up) from ask and ask untiringly, ‘What is desire to know. They will attend an establishment owned by Jews who this?’ we must not tire of answering. school for years and years, but they did not sell their Chametz. We must look upon this thirst for will never acquire that which their parents failed to provide. STEP #10: Next Passover Falls Out knowledge as a healthy sign and On Wednesday night, devote the same willingness and Accordingly, we should not feel annoyed when a child asks questions, April 19. KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 9 SO WHAT’S KOSHER FOR PASSOVER?

PASSOVER FOODS 3. Fresh Fruits and Vegetables 7. Baby Foods Most foods that are used on All of these may be used (except for Most infant formulas contain corn Passover require rabbinic supervision. legumes—peas, beans, rice and corn or soy beans as starting ingredients. This is especially true of all processed which are all treated like chametz). If Since these are considered kitniyot, the foods. It is important to realize that a these fruits and vegetables are sold in a baby’s utensils and foods should be label indicating the product is general grocery store, they should be kept absolutely separate from “Kosher for Passover” does not assure washed very carefully before being everything else in the house. If an us of the adequacy of the supervision. used on Passover. infant must eat Chametz products, in Wherever possible, congregants accordance with a doctor’s directive, a 4. Dried Fruits should use OU products which have a rabbi should be consulted. Otherwise special Passover supervision. If not, These should carry a Passover all chametz products should be it is important to check on the endorsement. avoided. reliability of the particular Rabbi who 5. Frozen Fruits and Vegetables 8. Coffee is giving the endorsement. Please feel With the exception of the legumes Some questions have arisen in the free to ask either Rabbi Lookstein in that were mentioned above, frozen past about the adulteration of coffee the event of any doubt in this matter. fruit with no additives listed are usable with grain products. In the absence of 1. Grain Products for Passover without a rabbinic specification, therefore, it would be All grain products require strict endorsement. Frozen vegetables preferable to purchase coffee with rabbinic supervision for Passover use. require special Passover certification. proper supervision for Passover. Please Pure orange and grapefruit juice may check your OU Passover directory. 2. Milk and Dairy Products be purchased before Passover without These, too, require supervision. a rabbinic endorsement. 9. All Other Foods Milk however, may be purchased Processed juices such as tomato, Those processed foods not before Passover without supervision. If apple and prune require supervision. mentioned in this listing require one has to purchase it during the special supervision for Passover use. festival, however, it requires 6. Cosmetics supervision. Powdered milk, Alba and All cosmetic lotions, creams, Carnation, may be used on Passover, ointments and toothpaste need no BAR MITZVAH without a rabbinic endorsement. special Passover supervision.

PROJECT EZRA SHOPPING LIST FOR PASSOVER DATES: SUNDAY, MARCH 14 - MONDAY, MARCH 22 Please help Project Ezra complete their shopping list for Passover and enable them to provide Passover food for the impoverished elderly Jews of the Lower East Side. Items needed are divided by the first letter of your last name. Please remember that all items must be <-Kosher for Passover and/or listed in the < PHILLIPPE J. KURZWEIL Passover Directory. Specially labeled boxes will be in the KJ/Ramaz lobby for Mazel tov to Vivianne and KJ collection from Sunday, March 14th - Monday, March 22nd. Trustee Robert Kurzweil on the Bar Please buy salt and sugar free products when possible. Mitzvah of their son, P.J., which will AB Canned Soup PQR Jelly take place on Saturday, May 1, in CDE Vegetable Oil S Instant Coffee the Main Synagogue. Similar good FGH Tuna Fish T Tea Bags wishes to the proud grandmother, IJK Canned Salmon UVW Canned Fruit Mrs. Linda Hanania. He will read LM Sardines XYZ Canned Vegetables the weekly portion of Emor and the Haftarah. NO Horseradish P. J. is a student in the seventh Thank you in advance for giving so generously. grade of the Rabbi Joseph H. Donna Levinson & Amanda Ritz Lookstein Upper School of Ramaz. Chairpersons Page 10 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN

????????????????????? FAST OF THE FIRSTBORN Now on the Upper East Side! Passover Eve is a traditional fast for first born males. Gertel’s Bake Shoppe It is obligatory upon every first born man who cannot observe the fast on Wednesday, to attend New Location: the special service on that day, to 1592 2nd Avenue join Rabbi Lookstein in 734-3238 completing a tractate from the Talmud, and to participate at KJ Special: FREE Medium Challah its conclusion in the light with $25.00 Puchase and this Ad! collation that is served. The service for the first born (Siyum We now carry a full line of McCABE’S Bechorim) will be held in the CAKES COOKIES Main Synagogue on Wednesday, WINES & SPIRITS APPETIZERS 1347 Third Ave., NY, NY 10021 March 31, as part of the regular GROCERIES CANDIES (212) 737-0790 morning service which begins “Manhattan’s Largest Selection of at 7:00 am. ????????????????????? Kosher Wines and Spirits” 10% Discount to All KJ Members 1 9 9 9 — 2 0 0 0 Except on Sale Items Prompt Delivery BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE —— Now In Preparation —— Once again during this season of the year, Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun will publish a BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE in which the names of departed dear ones are recorded by their living relatives who recite Yizkor for them four times a year. At the Yizkor service there is a prayer which says that an offering MUSIC has been made in memory of those for whom Yizkor was recited. Shabot Members of the congregation and the community-at-large may authorize us Entertainment to publish the names of their departed relatives by making a token contribution of $18 or more for each name to be memorialized. Please use the form below if you wish us to record names for you. The Book will go to press on Monday, April 26, so that it will be ready in time for Shavuot— ACADEMIC NEWS Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun Book of Remembrance REQUESTED Enclosed please find my Yizkor offering* for the entire year in memory of those listed At this season of the year we are below, who are to be recorded in the BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE published by the already beginning to think of congregation. milestones and honors which the q Please duplicate last year’s listing(s) Offering $______for ______people. members of the Congregation and Please add the following: their families will be experiencing FULL NAME IN ENGLISH (PLEASE PRINT) OFFERING during the coming months. Name ______$ ______We would like to record all of Bulletin Name ______$ ______those honors in the . If you, as a member of the Congregation or Name ______$ ______anyone in your family is observing Name ______$ ______such a milestone or receiving a YOUR NAME ______particular honor in academic or professional life, we ask you to ADDRESS ______please send us the information PHONE ______without delay. It is one more way of q Please check here if you did not have a listing last year. creating the family spirit we like to *This offering is a token of reverence and is designed to be within reach of all. foster at KJ and Ramaz. We suggest a contribution of $18 or more for each name. We hope to hear from This form should be returned to our office by Monday, April 26. you soon. KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN Page 11 WITHIN OUR FAMILY Schedule of Passover Services BIRTHS Mazel tov to: Tuesday, March 30, Search for Chometz After 6:54 PM Elana and Daniel Billig on the birth of a son, Mayer David. Wednesday, March 31, Passover Eve Suzie and Sandy Eisenstat on the Morning Services - Siyum (Firstborn) 7:00 AM birth of a granddaughter, Bracha Davida, Chometz may not be eaten after 9:42 AM to their children, Tamar and Abe Burn Chometz no later than 10.42 AM Eisenstat. An Erev Tavshilin should be prepared. Naomi and Gerald Goldstein on the Candlelighting 6:02 PM birth of a grandson, Netanel Yair, to their Evening Services 6:10 PM children, Ilana and Joshua Blass. Start Seder After 6:56 PM Shira and Ronny Kraft on the birth of Thursday, April 1 — Passover I a daughter, Rachel Tova. Morning 9:00 AM Bina and Marc Rosen on the birth of Evening 6:15 PM a son, Steven Shaya. Gloria and Greg Schneider on the Candlelighting and Start Seder after 7:03 PM birth of twin daughters, Shira Rivka and Friday, April 2 — Passover II Aliza Chaya. Morning 9:00 AM Debbie and Daniel Schwartz on the Candlelighting 6:04 PM birth of a daughter, Elianna Mollie. Evening Services 6:15 PM Similar good wishes to the proud grandparents, Gabriella and Dr. SERVICES DURING THE WEEK OF CHOL HAMOED William Major. May these children grow up in the Saturday, April 3 — Passover III finest tradition of Torah, chuppah and Morning Services 9:00 AM maasim tovim. Evening Services 6:15 PM Shabbat ends 6:58 PM ENGAGEMENT Sunday, April 4 — Passover IV Mazel tov to Belda and Marcel Lindenbaum on the engagement of their Morning Services Daylight Savings Time 8:30 AM daughter, Abigail, to Shai Tambor, son of Evening Services 6:45 PM Leah and Zev Tambor of Israel. Similar Monday, April 5 — Passover V good wishes to the proud grandmother, Morning Services 7:00 AM Mrs. Rita Kaufman. Evening Services 6:45 PM May the wedding take place in happiness and blessing. Concluding Days of Passover WEDDINGS Mazel tov to: Tuesday, April 6 — Erev Yom Tov KJ Trustee Fran and Benjamin Morning Services 7:00 AM Brown and Surie and Robert Sugarman Evening Services 7:20 PM on the marraige of their children, Daniel Candlelighting 7:08 PM and Alison. We also congratulate Brenda Wednesday, April 7 — Passover VII and Richard Mandel of Voorhees, New Morning Services 9:00 AM Jersey. Evening Services 7:20 PM Lloyd Green on his recent marriage Candlelighting after 8:03 PM to Julia Anne Rubin of Chicago. Thursday, April 8 — Passover VIII Shirley and Paul Schulder on the Morning Services 9:00 AM marriage of their granddaughter, Jessica Evening Services 7:20 PM Schulder, to Mayer Orbach of Brooklyn. Conclusion of Yom Tov 8:04 PM May they enjoy their marriages with happiness and blessing. CONDOLENCES among those who mourn for Zion and BAR MITZVAH Our condolences to: Jerusalem. Mazel tov to Jean Blumenthal on Berl Janowski, Hannah Kostenbaum COMMUNAL HONORS the forthcoming Bar Mitzvah of her and Rachel Waldman on the loss of their Mazel tov to Dr. Cheryl Fishbein and grandson, Avi Simcha Blumenthal, brother, Moses Janowski. her husband, Philip Schatten, upon son of Barbara and Dr. George Babetta Lew on the loss of her Cheryl’s designation as Alumnae of the Blumenthal, which will take place mother, Dorothy Jacoby. Year by the Yeshivah of Flatbush. at the youth minyan in Congregation Paul Schulder on the loss of his The tribute to her came as part of the Ahavas Torah in Englewood, sister, Freda Greenman. Annual Dinner of the Yeshivah on New Jersey. May these mourners be comforted Sunday, March 14. Page 12 KEHILATH JESHURUN BULLETIN

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March 19-20 Vayikra 5:49 6:00 5:50* 6:43 26-27 Tzav 5:56 6:05 5:00* 6:51 (Shabbat Hagadol) April 9-10 Shmini 7:11 6:45 7:00* 8:07 16-17 Tazria-Metzore 7:18 6:45 7:10* 8:15 23-24 Acharei-Kedoshim 7:26 6:45 7:20* 8:24 30-May 1 Emor 7:33 6:45 7.25* 8:31 May 7-8 Behar-Bechukotai 7:40 6:45 7:30* 8:38 201-664-2465 *Seudah Shlishit

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