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March 26 (8 Nissan 5786)
🙋🏼 Raise your hand if you’re not ready for Passover. Yeah, me too.
🔪 In preparation for the holiday, we’re serving up ideas on incorporating all ages at the seder table, options for take-out meals, and updates on issues the Atlanta Jewish community is following.
👏🏼 Mazel tov Walton High School student Zara Livits, who was elected to serve on the International Board of B’nai B’rith Girls at the most recent BBYO convention.
💛 Chag Pesach Sameach!
Y’alla,
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A stand-out Passover
📚 Looking for a non-traditional Haggadah? Try this mental health Passover seder companion by Blue Dove or “The Baseball Haggadah: A Festival of Freedom and Springtime in 15 Innings.” The Jewish Grandparents Network suggests Recustom for a DIY Haggadah.
While Passover is a great excuse to serve more vegetables, consider a vegetarian or vegan seder in the name of sustainability. Think of it as getting rid of your “gastronomical chametz,” Adamah suggests. Take a look at these recipes.
🍴 Call in the experts. My advice: Alon’s Israeli salad is a huge time saver if you want to outsource some dishes; Daily Chew is offering everything from the seder plate to dessert; and General Muir’s dine-in seder will save you from cooking and clean-up.
Experience Atlanta’s COOLEST Adventure
SPONSORED BY FERNBANK MUSEUM
🦣 Discover mammoths, saber tooth cats and Neanderthals as you explore how the Ice Age shaped our planet at Fernbank Museum.
Immersive galleries, incredible specimens and interactive experiences bring history back to life in this limited-time exhibit, on view through May 3.
Take it from PJ (Library)
👩👩👦👦 The PJ Library Family Haggadah can help guide families through the seder with prompts and activities designed to keep young children engaged.
If bedtime means your baby won’t make it through the entire seder, hold a short “mini seder” or host an afikomen hunt in the afternoon so they can participate.
⚡Even toddlers can answer simple questions like “What part of the story did you like best?” or “Which plague was the funniest?”
Explore Jewish diversity. Passover is celebrated in beautiful ways around the world. Consider adding a new dish like Indian-style Jaroset made with mangoes and dates.
➡ Check out events with PJ Library across metro Atlanta.
Holiday giving
👐🏽 Maos Chitim, which means “money for wheat,” can be traced back to Talmudic days when communities assumed the responsibility to provide Passover food to Jews in need. As the Haggadah says, “All who are hungry, let them come and eat.”
More than 50 years ago, Atlanta’s Maos Chitim Fund was started by a local Jewish businessman named Sylvan Makover. He would walk down Broad Street each year asking Jewish shopkeepers to contribute so families in need could celebrate Passover with dignity. The tradition continues today.
“As we see a dramatic rise in antisemitism around the world, we must step up now more than ever to help our own. We realize that times continue to be tight for many, but the families helped through the Maos Chitim Fund truly depend on us,” volunteer Stephen Tanenbaum said. “Your gift allows us to provide food and money so every Jewish family can celebrate Passover with pride and dignity.”
➡️ Donate here.
Meet the TikToker trying to revive Judeo-Arabic
📱 In TikTok videos viewed tens of thousands of times, 31-year-old Dan Sheena dons a blond wig and acts out skits of a bickering Iraqi couple in a language that is nearly extinct: Judeo-Arabic.
Sheena began posting videos on TikTok in 2023, speaking the endangered language, which today is rarely spoken by anyone under the age of 60, following the mass exodus of Jews from Arab countries due to discrimination and religious persecution.
Raised by two parents from Baghdad, Sheena grew up in Israel and spoke the language at home. That’s a rarity among second- and third-generation Iraqi Jews.
➡ Read the full story on the Forward.
Look & Listen
🔐 Read this account of how synagogue security training saved lives at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, MI.
🍷 Wine consumption is declining across all markets, but kosher wine is thriving.
What’s doin’ around town
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🌲 March 29: Clear your spiritual chametz with forest-bathing.
🤍 March 29: Bearing Witness with two Georgia families.
🀄 March 30: Mah Jongg Monday at 1 p.m.
🥬 April 1: Join Etz Chaim for the first night of Passover seder.
👋🏼 April 2: Enjoy a community seder with Kibbutz and Konnect.
🍷 April 3: Join an interfaith seder in Poncey Highland for adults only.
☕ Join Or Hadash for the final Spring Torah Tour stop at Sidecar Coffee in Chamblee this Friday at 10 a.m. Torah belongs everywhere—even next to your latte. Learn with Dr. Amy and stay for the schmooze (and maybe a scone). Details here.
Before you go
🎗️Mem Global dedicated three Atlanta Moishe Houses in memory of the late Rabbi Alvin M. Sugarman, who played a pivotal role in bringing Moishe House to the metro area in 2013.
On Sunday, March 22 in Toco Hills, current and alumni Moishe House residents, community partners, and members of the Sugarman family enjoyed an evening filled with reflection and gratitude.
😃 The new Rabbi Alvin M. Sugarman z”l Jewish Learning Series will rotate monthly through the Atlanta Moishe Houses.