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Local News
4 Norman Spector draws huge crowds at Townhall.
5 CJC tries to get more Jews to participate in politics. B Bogoclies are tionored at JNF's annual Negev Dinner.
7 Four plays to fill your social calendar in April and May.
8 National Council of Jewisti Women starts fund-raising.
Arts and Literature
Some of the latest hardcover offerings of 2003. An anthropologist looks at New York's diamond trade Prohibition-era travelling Jewish baseball team. Elizabeth Shefrin examines the art of Usher Hammer. Yosef Wosk contributes art collecton to Emily Carr.
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Israel
49    Hundreds protest against Netanyahu's budget cuts. 51     Israelis are not only caught up in debt, they revel in it.
Feature
55    Can any documentary be truly unbiased?
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Mensctieningsll Community Calendar 12 Classifieds 53 , Editorial 54 Letters 54
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ass the dates, hold the nuts
Something as simple as charoset is a good example of how customs differ family to family.
Salsa to your own beat
You can find the strangest things in a Passover food aisle these days. But what are they good for?
Pesach through the ages
Jews have gone to ta^mendous lengths to celebrate Passover wherever they have been.
Poetry fit for a king
What is the nature of the Song of Songs, which is read on the Sabbatii that falls during Passover?
Passover in a new city
A little chicken soup with kneidlach goes a long way for Abraham Schlemlel of Chelm.
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Women's seders have been an Integral part of the Passover tradition for mors than 25 years.
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About the cover art
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he cover of this year's Passover issue comes from the children's book Uncle Eli's Passover Hag-gadah (No Starch Press, 1999). Written by Eliezer Segal and illustrated by Bonnie Gordon-Lucas, Uncle Eli's Passover Haggadah is the latest effort to keep fidgety children engaged and interested during the seder.
This version of the Haggadah was first seen on the Internet and is available for the first time in print form. With whimsical color and Dr. Seuss-style verse, the book breathes new life into the events, personalities and rituals of the seder. Throughout the book, children are introduced to several colorful characters like Abie the Afiko-man-thief, Jacky the Juggler, the two-headed Dray and, of course, Uncle EU.
Grordon-Lucas has been a freelance illustrator for more than 30 years. She illustrates magazines, children's books, CD covers, greeting cards, rubber stamps, fabric and wallpaper. She paints on paper with inks made from ^e hulls of walnuts and uses watercolor pencils, gouache and acrylics. Her work is often humorous and energetic
' For more information on the artwork ofGordon-Lucas, go to www.mybaiuue.com. To order Unde Eli's Passover Haggadah, visit www.nostarch.com /eii.htm. □