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Thursday, April 14,2005
5 Nisan 5765
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Ambassadors in jeans:
Young Israelis tour
local classrooms
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Deciphering Crawford:
Sharon visit to Texas
leaves Israelis wanting
more specifics
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Channeling and
updating bubbe, Tina
Wasserman recreates
Passover memories
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VOLUME 59 NO. 15
texasjewishpost.com
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
For one day,
demonstrators
bring Mideast
passion to quiet
Texas town
By Ron Kampeas
CRAWFORD, Texas (JTA) — Pro-
and anti-Israel protesters brought a
crowded corner of the Middle East
home to Crawford, Texas, for a day.
More than 2,000 demonstrators
gathered in the central Texas town
Monday as President Bush and Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met
down a dirt road at Bush's ranch to
discuss Israel's plans to pull out from
25 settlements in the Gaza Strip and
northern West Bank this summer.
That was far more than Crawford's
resident population of 705.
Both sides were protesting the
visit, but the overwhelming majority
were Baptists, who believe the
removal of settlers violates biblical
precepts.
The Baptists, who brought in
leaders of Israel's settler movement
to speak, wore orange T-shirts and
caps emblazoned with the slogan
"Israel belongs to the Jews."
Gadi Eshel, a leader of a pro-set-
tier faction in Sharon's Likud Party,
said the planned evacuation was a
"complete blasphemy," earning a
resounding "Amen!" from members
of the crowd, many of whom were
waving Israeli flags.
Morton Klein, president of the
Zionist Organization of America —
the settlers' principal U.S. backer —
spoke to the protesters by phone.
"We will resolve this in a way that
God wants it solved, not the way
Ariel Sharon wants it solved," he said.
If there were any doubts that the
spectacle was out of place in Texas,
one sign put that to rest: "Don't mess
with the original Lone Star State," it
read, a play on Texas' nickname and
the Star of David on the Israeli flag.
Down the road, a dozen pro-
Palestinian demonstrators raised a
see DEMONSTRATORS p. 25
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Sam Rosenstein, Dave Karlebach and Debby Chambers accept Congregation Shearith Israel's first-place honors in the
form of a large "floating" first-place trophy and a smaller version the congregation will keep. Photo: tjpstaff
Tarrant County women celebrate
freedom through their own seder
By Lorie Raileanu
FORT WORTH — The social hall
was packed at Beth El Congregation
in Fort Worth Sunday night as
women gathered to kick off the
Passover season with their own
seder, complete with all the symbols
and traditional foods that will be
found in Jewish homes around the
world in just two short weeks. (I'm
counting the days myself, as I build
up the strength to clean, shop, cook,
and serve close to 50 guests coming
to joyfully celebrate with my family
during Pesach.)
This is the third year women of
Fort Worth and Tarrant County
have embraced the tradition of
holding a women's seder. It was
truly a celebration of women; a time
for us to sit together and embrace
our tradition in a new way, a femi-
nine way.
The program took an intelligent
and meaningful approach to a story
we all know so well. Instead of the
four sons, we talked of the four
daughters: the wise daughter
searching for the relevancy of her
Jewish roots; the alienated daughter
who is negative about Jewish life; the
superficial daughter, who goes
through the motions at synagogue
and wears a "chai" around her neck
but whose understanding stops
there; and the insecure, inhibited
daughter, who is so invisible and shy
that she is afraid to ask a question.
Instead of just the cup for Elijah,
there was another, slender cup next
to it called a "Miriam's Cup" to cel-
ebrate the role Miriam played in
bringing ALL of the children of
Israel out of bondage.
It wasn't a "male bashing" session
or an effort to exclude men or chil-
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Slightly
unscripted
cook-off a
winner
By Steve Israel and Melissa Mar off
DALLAS—No recipe? And that was
the brew that captured the hearts
and mouths of judges at Sunday's
Kosher Chili Cook-off?
All true, Debby Chambers insisted,
after learning that her team's five-
alarm concoction won first place—for
the third time in recent years. Just four
Aprils ago, the same non-recipe, also
representing Congregation Shearith
Israel's "posse," impressed a different
panel of five well-qualified judges.
dren, but a dedication to women
and the suffering we once endured -
and overcame - in Egypt too. The
night served as a communal hug of
support as we all prepare ourselves
for Passover with added knowledge
and insight, and a level of spiritu-
ality not always found in the
mundane tasks of preparation.
And, although many of us enjoy
the frantic efforts we take to clear
chametz out of our homes and pre-
pare for the ritual sederim, more
often than not we are tending to
crying children, guests, and matzah
ball soup boiling over during the
actual seder itself. The women's
seder gave us all time to savor the
tradition and pause to discuss
lessons we can all learn from our
mothers and fathers set free from
bondage.
see TARRANT WOMEN p. 25
See more Chili Cook-off photos
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And you wanted to believe Debby's
claim, if only because that's the kind
of happily unhinged and unscripted
day it was in the parking lot behind
Congregation Tiferet Israel.
Even the weather refused to
follow a stormy script, to the
approval of more than 2,000 com-
munity members who turned out at
this, the 12th annual cook-off.
"There's actually no recipe," Debby
repeated. "It's just what's supposed to
be in a chili, a Texas chili. A lot of
people use a lot of different, exotic
ingredients in chili, and the best chili
is the simplest, and that's made with
the ingredients that are supposed to
be in Texas chili, which means no
chocolate, no cinnamon, just Ancho
chili powder and garlic and cumin
and cayenne - just the basics."
How much of everything do you
put in? she was asked. "I never mea-
sure it. That's why there's no recipe."
Debby credited Dave Karlebach,
Carolyn Abrams and Sam Rosen-
stein for important roles in the
team's success. Debby is Shearith
Israel's kashruth supervisor and
family liaison director and does
some catering.
For the record, Congregation
see C00K-0FF p. 2
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